Trayvon Braxton
Portfolio Director
Expertise
Expertise
Trayvon Braxton is a Portfolio Director for the Education Lab. In this role, Trayvon supports the Education Lab’s project management staff. Trayvon has also managed several projects in the Education Lab’s personalized learning portfolio, including our previous evaluations of Saga Education’s high-dosage tutoring model and more recently the evaluation of the CPS Tutor Corps program — which is part of the Education Lab’s nationwide Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI), an effort to scale high-quality tutoring in districts across the country.
Prior to coming to the Labs, he worked on evaluations of low-income energy assistance programs as a policy analyst for a non-profit research institute. Trayvon holds a BA in public policy from Princeton University.
Personalized Learning Initiative
The Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI) is a moonshot to overcome pandemic learning loss and aims to bring high-dosage tutoring to students nationwide.
Personalized Learning Initiative: Tutor Corps Evaluation
The University of Chicago Education Lab is partnering with Chicago Public Schools (CPS) to scale personalized tutoring in the wake of the pandemic.
High-Dosage Tutoring: Research Partnership with Saga Education
Long before the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered schools and induced a once-in-a-century education learning crisis for students, the Education Lab, in partnership with Saga Education and school partners in Chicago and New York City, began generating evidence on the efficacy of high-dosage tutoring.
