Lauren Sartain

Lauren Sartain is an Affiliated Researcher at the UChicago Consortium. Her main research interests are in understanding policies and practices that urban schools can implement in order to improve the outcomes and lives of the students and adults in the public school system. To answer these kinds of policy-relevant research questions, she implements a variety of econometric and quasi-experimental research techniques with large-scale administrative data in order to hone in on the effects of various policies. Lauren has also worked at various research institutes like the Chapin Hall Center for Children and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. She has published and presented on a wide range of topics, including teacher quality, school choice and school quality, and discipline reform. While Lauren believes it is critical to apply rigorous methods to answer important policy questions, strong research only goes so far. Being able to take key findings and communicate them in a way that is meaningful for families, practitioners, and policymakers is also essential and at the heart of the research-practice partnership model. Lauren's research at the UChicago Consortium gives her a unique vantage point from which to study real-world policy problems in an interdisciplinary way. When she's not being a researcher, Lauren spends a lot of time raising her kiddos, Josephine and Theodore, and their yellow dog, Pearl.

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Training and Retaining Effective School Leaders Training and Retaining Effective School Leaders

Results from Efforts to Improve Principal Effectiveness in Chicago Public Schools

Snapshot Sep 2023
On the Path to Becoming a Chicago Public School Principal Chicago Public School Principals' Prior Experiences Report Jan 2023
Increasing Access to Selective High Schools through Place-Based Affirmative Action: Unintended Consequences Increasing Access to Selective High Schools through Place-Based Affirmative Action

Unintended Consequences

Article 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
GoCPS: A First Look at Ninth-Grade Applications, Offers, and Enrollment GoCPS

A First Look at Ninth-Grade Applications, Offers, and Enrollment

Report May 2019
GoCPS: A First Look at Applications and Offers GoCPS: A First Look at Applications and Offers Working Paper Aug 2018
School Closings in Chicago: Staff and Student Experiences and Academic Outcomes School Closings in Chicago

Staff and Student Experiences and Academic Outcomes

Report May 2018
Selective Enrollment High Schools in Chicago: Admission and Impacts Selective Enrollment High Schools in Chicago

Admission and Impacts

Snapshot Feb 2018
Rethinking Universal Suspension for Severe Student Behavior Rethinking Universal Suspension for Severe Student Behavior Article Feb 2018
The Predictive Power of Ninth-Grade GPA Report Sep 2017
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