Nathan Jones

Assistant Professor School of Education at Boston University

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Dr. Nathan Jones is an assistant professor of special education at BU’s School of Education.

In his research, Dr. Jones focuses on teacher quality, teacher development, and school improvement, with a specific emphasis on the use of measures of teacher effectiveness in evaluation systems. He previously worked as a middle school special education teacher in the Mississippi Delta.

Dr. Jones is currently the principal investigator of a $1.6 million IES grant examining whether the Framework for Teaching (FFT) –  an observation system used in over 20 states and hundreds of school districts – can be used validly and reliably in the evaluation of special education teachers. He is also co-PI on a W.T. Grant study examining Los Angeles Unified School District’s (LAUSD) three-year roll-out of a consequential teacher evaluation system. Dr. Jones currently serves an an editor of The Elementary School Journal and is on the editorial board at The Journal of Teacher Education.

Education professor appointed Co-editor of ESJ

September 25, 2014

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