Impact Research Intern - Summer 2026

Job description

Why You'll Love This Role: As an intern on Newsela’s Research team, you will partner with our Principal Research Scientist to investigate and document our impact on student learning. This role is a great opportunity for a current graduate student or early-career researcher to apply and develop their technical and science communication skills in an industry setting while answering questions that have real-world implications for students across the United States. What You'll Be Doing: - You will be a creative problem-solver who brings both statistical rigor and an investigative mindset to messy, real-world data. - You won't just run analyses; you'll use your technical grit and storytelling skills to develop compelling reports that uncover how and why Newsela helps kids learn. About You: - Graduate-level research experience in one of the following fields: learning analytics / educational data mining, education, psychology, communications, child development, or cognitive science - Fully fluent in R for statistical analysis and data visualization (especially tidyverse) - Fundamental statistics knowledge and skills - Basic experience with querying in SQL - Background or interest in educa...