Andrew Barr’s research focuses on understanding the role of financial and informational factors in the college decisions and related labor market outcomes of non-traditional students. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the...
Dr. Dougherty’s research emphasizes the use of quantitative research methods to evaluate the impact of educational policies and programs. He emphasizes understanding how the requirements, incentives and behaviors that those... |
Hunter Gehlbach is Associate Professor in the Department of Education. An educational psychologist by training, a social psychologist at heart, his primary interests lie in improving the social side of schools. Primarily, he aims to bolster teachers’ and...
Robert Balfanz is a research professor at the Center for the Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University School of Education, where he is co-director of the Talent Development Secondary reform model and director of the Everyone Graduates...
Alex J. Bowers is an Associate Professor of Education Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he works to help school leaders use the data that they already collect in schools in more effective ways to help direct the limited resources...
James P. Spillane is the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change at the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. He is also professor of Human Development and Social Policy, professor of...
Cynthia E. Coburn is a professor at the School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University. Coburn studies the relationship between instructional policy and teachers' classroom practices in urban schools. To date, Coburn has investigated this...
Derek Briggs is professor and chair of the Research and Evaluation Methodology program at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also the director of the Center for Assessment Design Research and Evaluation (CADRE). Dr. Briggs’s research agenda...
Bill Penuel is Professor of Educational Psychology & Learning Sciencesn at the University of Colorado Boulder. He joined the faculty of the School of Education in 2011.
Professor Penuel began his career in the field of youth development, developing...
