2007-2008 (entering) Pre-doctoral Fellows
Jonah Deutsch
Jonah Deutsch received his B.A. from Wesleyan University where he majored in Government. In the fall of 2008 he will enter the Ph.D. Program at the Harris School of Public Policy. Mr. Deutsch already has a substantial start on his career as an educational researcher, having worked at the prestigious Consortium on School Research for over a year. He has presented five papers at professional conferences. The primary topic of his work has been the reform of the high school curriculum in Chicago and its impact on students of varied backgrounds. He comes with a remarkably strong background in quantitative methods in education, with experience in hierarchical linear modeling, Item Response Theory, modeling of selection effects using the Heckman approach, propensity score stratification, and non-linear modeling.
Marshall Jean
Marshall Jean received his B.A. from Northwestern State University Louisiana before receiving his Masters Degree in Social Science at the University of Chicago. After graduating from Northwestern State University in 2005 Marshall spent a year teaching in the public school systems in France. At Chicago, his Master's Thesis on the school mobility of urban youth won the Division-wide competition for the best Master's Thesis of 2007-2008. This experience won him a full time job last year with the Consortium for Chicago School Research where Marshall Jean has collaborated with Stephen Raudenbush on a grant, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, on residential and school mobility. This work builds on his interest in how institutional and cultural contexts affect learning environments and educational outcomes. He joined the Sociology Department as a first-year Ph.D. student in the fall of 2008.
