Jean Grossman
Jean Grossman
Senior Fellow
K-12 Education

Grossman joined MDRC in 2011 as a part-time senior fellow in the K-12 Education policy area. She works on several projects related to youth education and employment. She leads one project that is focused on helping Job Corps build evidence to strengthen its program by suggesting a potential research agenda to strengthen and evaluate the program and by conducting an implementation and outcome study of two current Job Corps pilot programs. Another project she helps lead is the Personalized Learning Initiative, a large-scale evaluation of tutoring. This initiative aims to determine how to target tutoring and other related personalized learning interventions to serve as many students who need help as possible in a cost-effective manner.

In addition to her position at MDRC, Grossman teaches courses on program evaluation and youth programs as a member of the faculty of Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Immediately before joining MDRC, Grossman served as chief evaluation officer for the U.S. Department of Labor, where she was responsible for developing and overseeing evaluations for all agencies in the department, including evaluations of training programs, the unemployment insurance program, worker-protection strategies, and worker-benefit programs. She has over two decades of experience developing and conducting both qualitative and quantitative evaluations of a wide variety of social programs—employment and training, health, welfare, dropout prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, education, and youth programs—including a dozen random assignment evaluations. Grossman is an economist who received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1976 and her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980.

Products

Report

An Implementation and Outcomes Study of Idaho Job Corps and Job Corps Scholars

Issue Focus

How a Pilot Program Targeting Ninth-Graders Led to Shifting Sessions from Weekends and Evenings to Regular School Hours

Report

The First Five Years of Generation Work

Brief

Building on Strengths Students Have Gained After a Year of Turmoil

Brief

Solutions Through Social and Emotional Well-Being

Report

Assessing Higher Achievement’s Out-of-School Expansion Efforts

Report

A Report from the Investing in Innovation (i3) Evaluation

Brief

Early Lessons from Completion by Design

Report

An Evaluation of an Effort to Help Nonprofits Manage Their Finances

Working Paper

Using Volunteers to Improve the Academic Outcomes of Underserved Students

Report

Mentoring Experiences and Outcomes for Youth with Varying Risk Profiles

Report

Findings After the First Year of Implementation

Report

Findings from the Extended-Service Schools Initiative