Lauren Cassidy

Lauren Cassidy is a research analyst in SRI International's Center for Education Policy. She focuses on supporting data collection, data management, and data analysis for a number of projects. She is the deputy director of the national evaluation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Early College High School Initiative and the evaluation of the Texas High Schools Project. She also works on the National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development for the National Writing Project and the National Evaluation of the Teacher Incentive Fund Program for the U.S. Department of Education.

Cassidy has worked on a number of other recent studies, including evaluations of several school reform initiatives in Chicago and the Bridging the Divide study that examined the transition from high school to college for the U.S. Department of Education.

During her college career, Cassidy worked as a research assistant for the Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS) at the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy. She analyzed the use of the LeTUS inquiry-based curricula and software programs in fifth- through seventh-grade science classrooms in a Chicago public school. Cassidy was also a member of the research team for the Culture, Language, and Literacy Project, which examined the strategies bilingual children use when they translate for their immigrant family members and how these skills affect literacy learning in school, family dynamics, and children's self-perceptions.

Cassidy earned her M.A. in professional writing and editing from George Mason University and her B.S. in communication studies and English from Northwestern University.