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Mary Visher
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Senior Associate
Young Adults and Postsecondary Education Policy Area
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Visher joined MDRC as a Senior Associate in 2007, bringing two decades of experience in public policy research in education (K-12 as well as postsecondary), workforce development, adult education, and welfare. At MDRC, Visher leads several projects in the Young Adults and Postsecondary Education and K-12 Education policy areas, with a special focus on the intersection between education and workforce development. She currently serves as the project director for the Learning Communities Demonstration, funded by the National Center on Postsecondary Research (NCPR), which is a six-site experiment testing the impact of learning communities on student outcomes. In the K-12 area, she leads a project to develop and pilot a program of curricula and activities in 18 high schools to offer students quality work-based learning and college awareness experiences. Visher holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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