Jenny Nagaoka

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.

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College Readiness for All: The Challenge for Urban High Schools College Readiness for All

The Challenge for Urban High Schools

Article Apr 2009
College Readiness Indicator Systems Framework College Readiness Indicator Systems Framework Article Nov 2013
Documentation of the 1996-2002 Chicago Annenberg Research Project on Authentic Intellectual Demand Exhibited in Assignments and Student Work: A Technical Manual 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
Early Warning Indicators in Education Early Warning Indicators in Education

Innovations, Uses, and Optimal Conditions for Effectiveness

Article Nov 2020
Ending Social Promotion: Results from Summer Bridge Ending Social Promotion

Results from Summer Bridge

Report Feb 2003
Ending Social Promotion: The Effects of Retention Ending Social Promotion

The Effects of Retention

Report Apr 2004
Foundations for Success

Young People Learn Best Through Active and Reflective Experiences

Article Dec 2016
Foundations for Young Adult Success: A Developmental Framework Foundations for Young Adult Success

A Developmental Framework

Report Jun 2015
From High School to the Future: A First Look at Chicago Public School Graduates' College Enrollment, College Preparation, and Graduation from Four-Year Colleges From High School to the Future

A First Look at Chicago Public School Graduates' College Enrollment, College Preparation, and Graduation from Four-Year Colleges

Report Apr 2006
From High School to the Future: Making Hard Work Pay Off From High School to the Future

Making Hard Work Pay Off

Report Apr 2009
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