Jason Snipes
Director of Research
Council of the Great City Schools

Jason C. Snipes is the Director of Research for the Council of the Great City Schools, where he oversees a program of research and dissemination aimed at tracking core student achievement outcomes and arming the nation’s largest urban school districts with research based strategies for addressing their core educational challenges, improving academic achievement, and reducing achievement gaps.

Prior to joining the Council, Dr. Snipes was deputy director of K-12 education research at MDRC, where he played a key role on a number of major research projects in education, including the national evaluations of Career Academies and Project GRAD. Dr. Snipes also led the development of the research design for several Department of Education sponsored studies, including random assignment studies of teacher professional development strategies in reading and mathematics. While at MDRC, Dr. Snipes was also co-principal investigator and lead author of Foundations for Success, an influential set of case  studies examining the policies and practices driving improved achievement in large urban school districts. Dr. Snipes holds a bachelor of arts in political science from Stanford University and a masters and doctorate in public policy from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.