About: Elaine Allensworth
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Elaine Allensworth, Ph.D. is Senior Director and Chief Research Officer at the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago. She is best known for her research on early indicators of high school graduation, college readiness and the transition from middle to high school. Her work on early indicators of high school graduation has been adopted for tracking systems used in Chicago and other districts across the country, and is the basis for a tool developed by the National High School Center. She is one of the authors of the book, Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago, which provides a detailed analysis of school practices and community conditions which promote school improvement. Currently, she is working on several studies of high school curriculum funded by the Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation. She recently began a study of middle grade predictors of college readiness, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Allensworth holds a Ph.D. in Sociology, and an M.A. in Urban Studies from Michigan State University, and was once a high school Spanish and science teacher.
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