Rachel Rosen

Rachel Rosen is the Co-Director of the MDRC Center for Effective Career and Technical Education (CTE), and a Research Associate at MDRC. Her work focuses on conducting impact evaluations of CTE programs for secondary school students. She is currently the Co-PI of MDRC’s IES-funded evaluation of the NYC P-TECH 9-14 schools, which are 6-year high schools where students can earn both a high school diploma and a free associate’s degree at the same time. Each school also has an industry sponsor who helps provide work-based learning experiences and whose work the associate’s degrees are related to. She is also the impact lead on the NextGeneration: California Partnership Academies study, which is a replication study of MDRC’s well-known evaluation of the Career Academies model. She is particularly interested in questions related to the intersection of equity and CTE, as well as how CTE helps students navigate transitions between the secondary, postsecondary, and workforce domains. She earned her PhD from Teachers College, Columbia University.