Senior Advisor at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University
John Q. Easton is a Senior Advisor to the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Previously, he served as a senior fellow at the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research (the Consortium) and was its Deputy Director and Executive Director. Easton also served as the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences and the Vice President for Programs at The Spencer Foundation. He is involved in several advisory boards at non-profit organizations, including the Illinois Economic Security Advisory Board. Easton is a member of the advisory boards for both the Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative and the Early Childhood Research Alliance of Chicago. He completed a two-year term on the Chicago Public Schools’ Accountability Redesign Advisory Group and is now a member of the Early Grades Indicators Advisory Group. Easton was appointed to the 2023–2025 EdWorkingPapers Review Board at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University. He earned a Ph.D. in education from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in psychology from Western Washington University, and a B.A. in psychology from Hobart College.
