About the Author |
Harold WenglinskyEducational Testing Service |
Harold Wenglinsky is an Associated Research Scientist in the Policy Information Center at Educational Testing Service. The Policy Information Center conducts original research as well as syntheses of existing research on important questions of educational policy for dissemination to policymaking audiences. Recent studies Dr. Wenglinsky has authored at the Center include When Money Matters: How Educational Expenditures Improve Student Performance and How They Don't and Students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Their Aspirations and Accomplishments. He is currently studying the application of multilevel structural equation modeling to data on school effects. Before joining the Policy Information Center, Dr. Wenglinsky was the ETS National Assessment of Educational Progress Visiting Scholar. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards from various organizations including the National Science Foundation and the American Educational Research Association. (The paper presented here was funded in part by a grant from NSF, REC-9628157.) Dr. Wenglinsky received his Ph.D. in Sociology from New York University in 1996.
