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Emily Braham

email ebraham@edc.org

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Emily Braham, a research associate at EDC, co-leads the Massachusetts Partnership to Support Student Learning through Math Intervention and the New Hampshire Partnership to Increase Early Learning Outcomes through Play.

Braham has a research background in child development and cognitive psychology, with an emphasis on early childhood math. Braham brings extensive experience conducting descriptive and experimental research studies, as well as designing surveys, interviews, and assessments to evaluate learning. She is also a certified reviewer for the What Works Clearinghouse.

Through REL Northeast & Islands, Braham has contributed to research studies on chronic absenteeism and provided technical assistance to advance districts’ continuous improvement efforts. She also works on a National Science Foundation collaborative research project developing educational science videos for bilingual learners. Before joining EDC, Braham led formative and summative evaluation studies on children’s learning at Boston Children’s Museum.

Braham holds a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh.

Email: ebraham@edc.org

Associated IES Content

About REL Northeast & Islands

About REL Northeast and Islands
report Descriptive Study

Exploring Implementation of Attendance Supports to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism in the Providence Public School District

In recent years Rhode Island's Providence Public School District (PPSD) has put initiatives in place to reduce high chronic absenteeism. This study explored attendance supports aimed at reducing chronic absenteeism that PPSD schools implemented in the 2018/19 school year. Although some schools had attendance supports in place before 2018/19, in 2018 the district added new requirements for schools to address chronic absenteeism. The study investigated what attendance supports were most commonl...
Sep 01, 2021
Publication number:
REL 2021 099
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