John Q. Easton

John Q. Easton is a Senior Fellow at the UChicago Consortium. Prior, he served as Vice President, Programs at the Spencer Foundation in Chicago. At Spencer, he developed and led a new grant program for research-practitioner partnerships. From June of 2009 through August 2014, he was Director of the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education. Prior to his government service, Easton was Executive Director of the UChicago Consortium. He was affiliated with the UChicago Consortium since its inception in 1990, and became its Deputy Director in 1997 and Executive Director in 2002. Easton served a term on the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policies for the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). He is a member of the Illinois Employment Security Advisory Board, the Illinois Longitudinal Data System Technical Advisory Committee, and the Chicago Public Schools' School Quality Report Card Steering Committee.

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On the Path to Becoming a Chicago Public School Principal Chicago Public School Principals' Prior Experiences Report Jan 2023
Reaching for Improvement: Teacher Evaluation and its Role in Instructional Improvement Reaching for Improvement

Teacher Evaluation and its Role in Instructional Improvement

Report May 2022
CPS Gradebook Technical Report CPS Gradebook Technical Report Brief Jan 2022
A Path to Equity A Path to Equity

From Expanded Pre-k Access to Success in Elementary School

Brief Jun 2021
NBER 28194 Cover Who Benefits From Attending Effective Schools?

Examining Heterogeneity in High School Impacts

Working Paper Dec 2020
Linking Social-Emotional Learning to Long-Term Success Linking Social-Emotional Learning to Long-Term Success

Student Survey Responses Show Effects in High School and Beyond

Article Oct 2020
Closer to Home: More Equitable Pre-K Access and Enrollment in Chicago Closer to Home

More Equitable Pre-K Access and Enrollment in Chicago

Snapshot Oct 2020
A New Method for Describing Chicago Neighborhoods A New Method for Describing Chicago Neighborhoods Brief Oct 2020
Teacher Evaluation in CPS Teacher Evaluation in Chicago Public Schools

Analysis of the REACH Educator Evaluation and Support System, Five Years In

Brief Mar 2020
 School Effects on Socio-emotional Development, School-Based Arrests, and Educational Attainment School Effects on Socio-emotional Development, School-Based Arrests, and Educational Attainment Working Paper Feb 2020
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