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.
Featured Publications
- February 2018Snapshot
Admission and Impacts
- September 2017Report
- July 2017Article
- September 2015Report
Differences in Discipline Practices Across Schools
- November 2011Report
Lessons Learned from Classroom Observations, Principal-Teacher Conferences, and District Implementation
All Publications
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A Study of Chicago New Teacher Center Induction Coaching in Chicago Public Schools 2009-2010 |
Working Paper | Nov 2010 |
Chicago Public School Principals' Prior Experiences | Report | Jan 2023 |
Discipline Practices in Chicago Schools Trends in the Use of Suspensions and Arrests |
Report | Mar 2015 |
Does Better Observation Make Better Teachers? New Evidence from a Teacher Evaluation Pilot in Chicago |
Article | Nov 2014 |
Does Teacher Evaluation Improve School Performance? Experimental Evidence from Chicago's Excellence in Teaching Project | Article | Oct 2015 |
Evaluation of the Excellence in Teaching Pilot - Year One | Working Paper | Aug 2009 |
GoCPS A First Look at Ninth-Grade Applications, Offers, and Enrollment |
Report | May 2019 |
GoCPS: A First Look at Applications and Offers | Working Paper | Aug 2018 |
Increasing Access to Selective High Schools through Place-Based Affirmative Action Unintended Consequences |
Article | Oct 2020 |
Reports on High School Reform in Chicago | Report | Aug 2009 |