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  • John Cronin, National Center on School Choice

      John Cronin
      Director
      Kingsbury Center for Research on Academic Growth
      Northwest Evaluation Association



    John Cronin is the director of the Kingsbury Center for Research on Academic Growth at the Northwest Evaluation Association. Dr. Cronin conducts research involving two major strands. One focuses on educational policy issues related to state standards and implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act. These include large scale studies exploring differences in the difficulty of standards among states, a study of the effect that NCLB implementation has had on student growth, and a study of NCLB’s effect on the achievement gap. The other strand examines the use of technologies to reliably identify student test scores that may be invalidated due to low student motivation or poor testing conditions.

  • Northwest Evaluation Association
    5885 SW Meadows Road
    Suite 200
    Lake Oswego, OR 97035
    (503) 624-1951
    john.cronin@nwea.org
    www.nwea.org

The NCSC is funded by a 5 year, $13.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. Its lead institution is Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. The center is housed on the campus of Peabody College, one of the nation's top graduate schools of education.