C.J. Park

CJ Park, a researcher in the Center for Education Policy, has worked on a variety of national, state, and local research and evaluation projects primarily on examining teacher development and high school reform efforts. She has experience using both qualitative and quantitative research methods.

Park currently is the deputy project director of the National Writing Project SEED (Supporting Effective Educators Development) grant Evaluating the Impact of Professional Development to Meet Challenging Writing Standards in High Need Elementary Schools. This is a randomized controlled trial examining the effect of writing professional development in the upper elementary grades. It entails the collection of student writing, teacher surveys, and interviews.

Park also leads the survey portion of the evaluation of the Florida Master Teachers Initiative, which seeks to create master teachers through a job-embedded master’s degree program with an early childhood education specialization.

Park is a lead site visitor and supports the overall management for the Evaluation of California’s Linked Learning District Initiative, an effort to support districts in implementing Linked Learning in their high schools to prepare students for both career and college. She also is working on a project supported by the U.S. Department of Education to identify strategies to prepare at-risk youth for postsecondary success.

Park is a certified reviewer for the U.S. Department of Education What Works Clearinghouse.

Before joining SRI, Park worked at the Center for Research on Children in the U.S. (CROCUS), where she supported an evaluation of universal preschool in Oklahoma. At the Urban Institute, she participated on a short-term project evaluating promising educational practices for the U.S. Department of Education. Park holds a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University and an undergraduate degree in economics and sociology from Rutgers College.