Education Week
The Consortium on Chicago School Research has named Paul Goren, a senior vice president at the Spencer Foundation, as its new director.
Mr. Goren—who replaces John Q. Easton, now the head of the federal Institute of Education Sciences—is well known in education circles for his role at the Chicago-based foundation. The consortium’s style of research, conducted in collaboration with the Chicago school system, has become a national model for urban school studies...