Jingtong Pan

Senior Researcher

Jingtong Pan is a senior researcher at AIR. Dr. Pan’s research is centered around describing, explaining, and optimizing the overall wellness, health, and potential thriving of young people and their communities, with a particular focus on examining how members in the community come together to support social, emotional, and educational development of children from birth through post-secondary education.

Working collaboratively with research partners from community-based organizations to state educational agencies, Dr. Pan uses his content expertise in education and child development and methodological expertise in study design and quantitative analytic skills to address the most pressing needs in the field of education and child development.

Dr. Pan has led statewide analyses of school turnaround practices as well as evaluations of innovative educational programs in multiple states. Most recently, he co-led a project that investigates the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is associated with changes in student learning overall and across student groups of different demographic and socioeconomic status.

Jingtong Pan
Expertise
Education
District and School Improvement
Education Policy
Postsecondary Education
School Climate
Social and Emotional Learning
Early Childhood and Child Development

Ph.D., Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University

Contact Jingtong Pan

+1.202.403.5000
Related Work

Children’s Knowledge and Skills at Kindergarten Entry in Illinois

30 Oct 2019
At least half of states administer or are developing kindergarten entry assessments. In fall 2017 the Illinois State Board of Education began requiring teachers to report data on every child’s skills at kindergarten entry using the Kindergarten Individual Development Survey.
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Changing the Trajectories of Children in Foster Care: The Safe Babies Court Team Evaluation

Children in foster care are at risk for poor developmental outcomes, including increased rates of poor health, higher rates of depression and anxiety, more attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and conduct disorders, more problems in school, and increased rates of incarceration and suicide. The Safe Babies Court Team™, created by ZERO ...