Andrew Corcoran is a Senior Program Officer on the K-12 Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His work ensures that the K-12 strategy measurement, learning, and evaluation work is supported by equity-centered evidence that evolves and grows as teams learn more from the field and their own work. This includes partnering with researchers in building and disseminating evidence on how to improve math outcomes for K-12 students. Prior to the foundation, Andrew was the Director of Programs at Thurgood Marshall Academy High School in Washington D.C, serving on the school’s leadership team and overseeing all out-of-school and wrap around services. He has also worked on US Government Accountability Office Education, Workforce, and Income Security team, the Child, and Family Research Partnership at the University of Texas, and for the City of Austin. He is a former Strategic Data Project Fellow at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University, and he holds a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from American University and a master's degree in public policy analysis and management from the University of Texas at Austin

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