Meghan McDermott is a Research Associate at the EDC Center for Children & Technology.

She has worked on a wide range of educational research projects, from basic and applied studies to formative evaluation. Recently, she completed research on an innovative laptop program, Project Hiller, in an urban high school with students and teachers. Funded by the National Science Foundation, this research documented the role technology can play as a critical lever in an ongoing process of systemic educational reform.

Currently, Meghan is involved in project work to develop a game environment that invites girls into the world of information technology, as well as an implementation study of a data reporting system across New York City schools that explores how adoption of an accountability innovation unfolds in a large, complex urban school system.Her primary interests include media education and the expressive power of media arts. She is an annual participant reviewer of student video portfolio assessments for the Educational Video Center, an award-winning youth media arts organization in New York. She has also worked with the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival to pilot human rights films in high school classrooms.

Meghan earned her master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she focused her independent research on educational policy, teacher leadership, and urban poverty.