Fred Doolittle
Fred Doolittle
Senior Adviser and Chair
Institutional Review Board

Doolittle joined MDRC in 1986, initially specializing in studies of employment and training programs for economically disadvantaged, out-of-school young people and adults. As MDRC expanded its work to include education, he focused on evaluations of elementary and secondary school reforms. At various points in his career at MDRC, he was Director of the Policy Research and Evaluation Department and the K-12 Education Policy Area and Interim Director of the Postsecondary Education Policy Area. He has served on the faculties of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, and the Yale School of Management. Doolittle holds a law degree and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. At the end of 2020, he transitioned to consultant status and now services as Chair of MDRC’s Institutional Review Board and as a senior advisor to MDRC.

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Impacts on Elementary School Students’ Outcomes

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Findings After the First Year of Implementation

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The Effect of Project GRAD on High School Student Outcomes in Three Urban School Districts

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The Effect of Project GRAD on Elementary School
Student Outcomes in Four Urban Districts

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The Milwaukee County Experience

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Thirty-Month Findings from the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Training Replication Sites

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Case Studies of How Urban School Systems Improve Student Achievement

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The Implementation of 24-Month Time-Limit Extensions in W-2

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Initial Assessments in the Milwaukee County W-2 Program

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The Pre-Curricular Phase of Project GRAD Newark

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Implementation and Interim Impacts of Parents' Fair Share

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Lessons for the Child Support Enforcement System from Parents' Fair Share

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Implementation of a Program to Reduce Poverty and Reform Welfare

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Final Report on a Program for School Dropouts