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William Corrin
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Deputy Director
K - 12 Education Policy Area
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Corrin, who came to MDRC in 2004, has been leading random assignment evaluations of reforms and interventions at the secondary school level. He is currently managing the national experimental evaluation of the Diplomas Now secondary school reform program, funded through the federal Investing in Innovation (i3) grant program. He is also leading a new national evaluation of Communities in Schools’ whole-school and targeted services that seek to reduce dropout rates and increase the school persistence of young people. Corrin has also led two random assignment evaluations of adolescent literacy interventions. He directed the evaluation of the Content Literacy Continuum, a literacy-across-the-curriculum framework for high school reform, as part of the work of the Regional Educational Lab Midwest, and the Enhanced Reading Opportunities Study, an evaluation of supplemental reading classes for ninth-graders. In addition, Corrin is leading the development of MDRC’s work on college readiness programming in high schools. Corrin formerly served as Director of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment for Evanston Township District 202 in Illinois and taught social studies at an alternative high school in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg public school system. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Northwestern University.
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MDRC Publications
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Selected Non-MDRC Publications
Diamond, J.B., Corrin, W.J., & Levinson, J. 2004. Challenging the Achievement Gap in a Suburban High School: A Multi-Method Analysis of an Adolescent Literacy Initiative. Naperville, IL: Learning Point Associates.
Harkins, P. & Corrin, W.J. (Eds.) 2000. African American Writers. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell.
Corrin, W.J. & Cook, T.D. 1998. “Design Elements of Quasi-Experiments." In H.J. Walberg & A.J. Reynolds (Eds.), Evaluation Methods for Educational Productivity. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
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