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Ruth Curran Neild
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Senior Research Associate
rneild@gse.upenn.edu
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Ruth Curran Neild is a Senior Research Associate. Through December 2010, she will be dividing her time between RFA and the Johns Hopkins Center for Social Organization of Schools, where she has been a Research Scientist since September 2006. Dr. Neild has more than 10 years of experience in analyzing complex longitudinal district and state administrative databases, including merged cross-agency data. She is trained in rigorous methods for educational evaluation and serves on the Technical Working Group of the MidAtlantic Regional Education Laboratory.
Her research interests include urban education - particularly high schools - and teacher recruitment, retention, and assignment. She is an author of the Once and For All (2003) and Quest for Quality (2005) reports on the public school teaching workforce in Philadelphia, published by RFA. Other recent publications include Unfulfilled Promise: The Dimensions and Characteristics of the Dropout Crisis in Philadelphia, 2000-2006 (2006), a widely cited report on high school dropout, and Untapped Potential: Early Labor Market Outcomes of Dropouts and Graduates from Philadelphia's Public Schools (2009). For the past three years, she has been managing a national randomized trial of two strategies for helping underprepared freshmen succeed in high school algebra; an assessment of impact is forthcoming.
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Selected Research for Action projects:
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Selected Publications:
- Christman, J. B., Neild, R. C., Bulkley, K. E., Liu, R., Mitchell, C. A., Travers, E., & Blanc, S. (2009, Jun). Making the Most of Interim Assessment Data: Lessons from Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Research for Action.
- Neild, R. C., Useem, E., & Farley, E. (2005). The Quest for Quality: Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Research for Action.
- Neild, R. C., Useem, E., Travers, E., & Lesnick, J. (2003, Sep 20). Once & For All: Placing a Highly-Qualified Teacher in Every Philadelphia Classroom. Philadelphia: Research for Action.
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Educational Background:
Ph.D.: University of Pennsylvania, Sociology
A.B.: Bryn Mawr College, Sociology and History
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