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James J. Kemple
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Director
K - 12 Education Policy Area
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Kemple leads MDRC's work in education, with expertise in evaluation design, site selection and engagement, experimental and quasi-experimental impact analyses, field research, and project management. Kemple led the site selection process for the National Reading First Impact Study and serves as co-director for that study, which MDRC is conducting with Abt Associates. He advises on evaluation design and site selection for the demonstration and evaluation of Academic Curricula in After School Programs and for the evaluation of Professional Development for Early Grade Literacy. Kemple has served as principal investigator for MDRC's Career Academies evaluation and for the evaluation of the Talent Development Middle School and High School models; he also advises on research design and impact analysis for MDRC's evaluation of Project GRAD and Scaling Up First Things First. In earlier work for MDRC, Kemple coauthored the final implementation report on the National Job Training Partnership Act study; managed an implementation and impact evaluation of Project Independence, Florida’s JOBS program; and was the impact analyst for an evaluation of Florida’s Family Transition Program, the nation’s first time-limited welfare reform initiative. Prior to joining MDRC, Kemple taught high school math and managed a three-phase academic and high school placement program for disadvantaged youth in Washington, DC. He coordinated a qualitative implementation study of the Boston Public School Curriculum objectives for the Citywide Education Coalition, and, with Richard Murnane and others, he coauthored Who Will Teach? Policies That Matter. Kemple holds a masters degree and a doctorate in education policy from Harvard University.
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