The Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) is a research-practice partnership between Rice University and several Houston-area school districts. HERC aims to improve the connection between education research and decision-making, with the ultimate goal of closing socioeconomic gaps in educational achievement and attainment in Houston.
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The Data Manager, with guidance from the Associate Director of Research Operations, will perform a variety of tasks related to the processing and maintenance of large restricted education datasets to facilitate research. Tasks include acquiring, cataloging, structuring, and cleaning data; creating analysis-ready datasets with documentation; publishing and maintaining versions of finalized datasets; responding to other programming requests. The Data Manager will work closely with the HERC research team, the Urban Data Platform team at the Kinder Institute for Urban Research, as well as the HERC Director and Associate Directors.
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Research Analyst
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The Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) is a research-practice partnership between Rice University and several Houston-area school districts. HERC aims to improve the connection between education research and decision-making, with the ultimate goal of closing socioeconomic gaps in educational achievement and attainment in Houston.
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HERC is currently seeking a full-time Research Analyst who will be responsible for designing and conducting complex research in a specialized field in cooperation with the appropriate Associate Director and research staff. The selected candidate may lead a team of students and/or staff in research.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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The Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) is a research-practice partnership between Rice University and several Houston-area school districts. HERC aims to improve the connection between education research and decision-making, with the ultimate goal of closing socioeconomic gaps in educational achievement and attainment in Houston.
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The Houston Education Research Consortium (HERC) is accepting applications for a one-year postdoctoral research fellowship, renewable up to two additional years, to study urban education, to begin July 2018. The postdoctoral research fellow is encouraged to pursue his/her own research agenda during the fellowship but would be expected to dedicate at least 80% of the time to the research agenda established by HERC.
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