Michael Grady

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Deputy Director; Assistant Clinical Professor, Master's in Urban Education Policy Program, Brown University

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Michael Grady serves as deputy director of the Institute and principal investigator on the Institute’s work with the Providence Mayor’s Children and Youth Cabinet and the Rhode Island Education Research Consortium. He is a member of the Institute’s College Readiness Indicator System team funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He also team-teaches a course on research methods and design in the master’s in Urban Education Policy program. Before joining the Institute, he was a senior research associate at the Annie E. Casey Foundation, where he managed the foundation’s research and evaluation portfolio. He has also served as director of research and evaluation for the Prince George’s County (Maryland) Public Schools, a research associate for a courtappointed committee that evaluated magnet schools in St. Louis, and a high school teacher in the U.S. and abroad. His research and policy interests include urban education reform, educational equity, community and parent engagement, and research and evaluation design. He holds a B.A. from Washington University and an Ed.M. and Ed.D. from Harvard University.

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