Jenny Nagaoka is the Deputy Director of the UChicago Consortium, where she has conducted research for nearly 20 years. Her research interests focus on policy and practice in urban education reform, particularly using data to connect research and practice and examining the school environments and instructional practices that promote college readiness and success. She has co-authored numerous journal articles and reports, including studies of college readiness, noncognitive factors, the transition from high school to post-secondary education, and authentic intellectual instruction. She is the lead researcher on the To&Through Project, a project that provides educators, policymakers, and families with research, data, and training on the milestones that matter most for college success. She is the lead author of Foundations for Young Adult Success: A Developmental Framework which draws on research and practice evidence to build a coherent framework of the foundational factors for young adult success, and investigates their development from early childhood through young adulthood and how they can be supported through developmental experiences and relationships.
Featured Publications
- April 2018Report
What We Know, What We Need to Know
- March 2008Report
Potholes on the Road to College
All Publications
Title | Type | Date Sort descending |
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Improving Chicago's Schools Millard Fillmore School |
Report | Aug 1997 |
Improving Chicago's Schools John Tyler High School |
Report | Aug 1997 |
Improving Chicago's Schools Harding School |
Report | Jan 2000 |
Update Ending Social Promotion - Passing, Retention, and Achievement Trends Among Promoted and Retained Students |
Report | Sep 2000 |
Chicago Classroom Demands for Authentic Intellectual Work Trends from 1997-1999 |
Brief | Oct 2000 |
Authentic Intellectual Work and Standardized Tests Conflict or Coexistence? |
Report | Jan 2001 |
Improving Chicago's Schools Pablo Neruda High School |
Report | Sep 2001 |
Documentation of the 1996-2002 Chicago Annenberg Research Project on Authentic Intellectual Demand Exhibited in Assignments and Student Work A Technical Manual |
Report | Aug 2002 |
Ending Social Promotion Results from Summer Bridge |
Report | Feb 2003 |
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge Successes, Failures, and Lessons for the Future |
Report | Aug 2003 |