Research Program Associate
James is a Research Program Associate on the Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts team. His work focuses on student outcomes and measures of learning, documenting patterns in high school academic achievement, progress, and attainment across Massachusetts and exploring how measures of learning, including course grades and high-stakes test scores, relate to students’ backgrounds and identities, school experiences, and outcomes after high school.
His research interests include inequality in educational opportunities, relationships between school practices and student outcomes, and program evaluation and causal inference.
Prior to joining Annenberg, James worked as a special education teacher in Washington, DC, teaching middle school English language arts and mathematics. James holds an A.B. in Philosophy from Princeton University, an M.S. in Educational Studies from Johns Hopkins University, and an Ed.M. in Education Policy and Analysis from Harvard Graduate School of Education.
