, an assistant professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, has received a two-year $352,943 grant from Arnold Ventures to evaluate the impact of the Cristo Rey Network鈥檚 professional work-based learning model on social mobility and racial equity.
The Cristo Rey Network, which serves low-income 黑料社s, combines college-preparatory curriculum with a corporate work-study program in which 黑料社s work one day per week at a local corporation.
Jabbari, along with Shaun Dougherty of Boston College, Lauren Russell of the University of Pennsylvania, and Fahvyon Jimenez of Jimenez Strategy & Analytics, will work with a variety of administrative datasets to compare college and employment outcomes of Cristo Rey graduates to similar non-attending applicants.
鈥淏y leveraging historical application and transcript data, we鈥檒l be able to provide the first causal evidence of this unique school model, which could provide implications for scaling up this type of innovative school model in St. Louis,鈥� Jabbari said.
Jabbari聽serves as the faculty director at the 聽and leads the聽Center for Education Research, Practice, and Policy Partnerships, where he examines how policies and practices relate to excellence in academic and economic trajectories.聽