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Melissa Roderick is the Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, is a co-director at the Consortium on Chicago School Research and the Principal Investigator for the Network for College Success. Professor Roderick is an expert in urban school reform, high stak...
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Melissa Roderick is the Hermon Dunlap Smith Professor at the School of Social Service Administration, is a co-director at the Consortium on Chicago School Research and the Principal Investigator for the Network for College Success. Professor Roderick is an expert in urban school reform, high stakes testing, minority adolescent development, and school transitions. Her work has focused attention on the transition to high school as a critical point in students' school careers and her new work examines the transition to college among Chicago Public School students. In prior work, Professor Roderick led a multi-year evaluation of Chicago's initiative to end social promotion. She has conducted research on school dropout, grade retention, and the effects of summer programs. She is an expert in mixing qualitative and quantitative methods in evaluation.
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