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Gail A. Corrado
Gail Ann Corrado (entered 1995). Gail has a BA and an MA in philosophy from Penn State, an MA in economics from Ohio University and an MBA from the University of Chicago and is a certified school psychologist. She is interested in educational policy with a particular emphasis on developing non-linear models to explain persistent achievement gaps between groups. Before enrolling at UNC, Gail was dean of computer and information technology at Wake Technical Community College, assistant vice provost for academic computing at Duke University, director of information systems planning and assistant director of telecommunications at the University of Chicago. She teaches the capstone course for the public policy department. Students in that course form consulting groups and work for clients in the area. The student's policy briefs have, on several occasions, helped to change policy. She has also taught quantitative methods for the public policy department and in the School of Education at NCSU. In addition, she co-taught a course on law and economics in the UNC Law School. She is originally from New York City. Her dissertation title is Location Effect Measurement Error: Evidence of a Network Explanation of Our Failure to Close Persistent Achievement Gaps." Her dissertation won one of the APPAM Dissertation awards in 2003.
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