Raegen Miller served as vice president for researcher partnerships at Teach for America for nearly four year. Before that, Miller was associate director of education research at the Center for American Progress, where he wrote widely on human capital and other issues. Miller spent more than a decade as a high school mathematics teacher after training at Stanford, earning National Board Certification and serving as president of a local teachers union along the way. He earned a doctorate in education policy from Harvard, where he taught courses in the foundations of teaching and in applied data analysis. Miller served on the board of a regional charter school in Massachusetts, and currently chairs the board of an education-related nonprofit near his home in the Pacific Northwest.
Work by Raegen Miller

The Geography of Risk: Skipping School Vaccinations
Rachel Grich Oct 17, 2019The measles outbreak earlier this year prompted some states to reconsider their approach to…

A New Lever for School Improvement: Student Surveys
Thomas Toch Raegen Miller May 28, 2019This commentary was initially published by RealClear Policy. The survey results shocked the staff…

What Education Leaders Can Do to Stop the Spread of Measles
Phyllis W. Jordan Raegen Miller May 27, 2019This piece was published by The 74. The surge in measles cases across the United…

The Toll That Measles Outbreaks Take on Schools
Phyllis W. Jordan Raegen Miller Apr 24, 2019There is a post circulating on Facebook from a young mother asking for advice on…

What a California School Survey Can Tell us About Measuring Social and Emotional Skills
Thomas Toch Raegen Miller Feb 25, 2019This post was initially published on OECD’s Education and Skills Today blog. Educators across…

CORE Lessons: Measuring the Social and Emotional Sides of Student Success
Thomas Toch Raegen Miller Feb 04, 2019The intensifying interest among education policymakers in the social and emotional dimensions of student success…

Giving Districts Guidance on ‘Supplement, Not Supplant’
Raegen Miller Jan 25, 2019More than a year later than promised, The U.S. Education Department just released its…

New Strategies for Measuring Poverty in Schools
Rachel Grich Nov 28, 2018For decades, the federal Free and Reduced-Price Lunch (FRL)…

Another Piece of the School Choice Puzzle: Vaccinations
Raegen Miller Sep 27, 2018Campaigns of mass vaccination against infectious diseases represent one of the most successful public health…

Another Piece of the School Choice Puzzle: Student Vaccinations
Raegen Miller Aug 08, 2018Campaigns of mass vaccination against infectious diseases represents one of the most successful public health…

Teacher Absenteeism, Substitute Shortages, and Student Achievement
Raegen Miller Apr 17, 2018Albany Times Union reporter Bethany Bump recently published a story about absent teachers leaving local school…

Want to Make School a Safer Place? Stop Paddling Students
Raegen Miller Apr 10, 2018Since the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., a month ago, school safety has dominated the…

Who’s In: Chronic Absenteeism Under ESSA
Phyllis W. Jordan Raegen Miller Sep 26, 2017When Congress rewrote the federal education law in 2015, lawmakers sought to scale back the…

What Works to Combat Chronic Absenteeism
Raegen Miller Aug 07, 2017A recent piece published by the Brookings Institution, Chronic Absenteeism, An Old Problem in…

Let’s Not Panic About Growth Mindset
Raegen Miller Jul 25, 2017Growth mindset, the belief that intelligence can be developed, has become a central tenet of…

Mining Chronic Absence Data for More Insights
Raegen Miller May 23, 2017A growing number of states are adopting chronic student absenteeism as a school accountability metric…

Being There Matters: Tracking Student & Teacher Attendance
Raegen Miller Mar 03, 2017The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires all states to include at least one non-academic…