JACOB ROSCH is a research analyst with Public Impact.  His work centers on examining school outcome data, developing quantitative models, and devising innovative and compelling methods for presenting education data.  Since joining the Public Impact team in 2008, Mr. Rosch has worked on a wide range of education topics, including value-added test score analysis, school turnarounds, teacher quality, school finance, and charter schools.  An accomplished saxophonist, Mr. Rosch performs in and around the Triangle area of North Carolina.  He earned a B.A. with honors in sociology and music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Example Projects:  Mr. Rosch’s recent work includes co-authoring  The Ohio Value-Added Primer, a guide to Ohio’s value-added test score system; Youth at High Risk of Disconnection, a quantitative national portrait of disconnected youth; Performance-Based Dismissals: Cross-sector Lessons for School Turnarounds, which examines how policymakers can enable positive staff turnover in chronically failing schools; Ohio Report Card Analysis, 2008-09, a rapid-response analysis of charter, cyber, and district schools in Ohio; and Getting Results in K-12 School Investments, which examines the impact of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s support for public schools. Mr. Rosch has also assisted charter school authorizers with the analysis of outcome data for their annual reports on school progress, including the Mayor of Indianapolis charter school office’s widely regarded accountability report. His recent work also includes co-authoring a business plan to scale-up mayor-sponsored charter schools in Rhode Island and developing a metric to measure charter school autonomy.

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