Andrew J. Rotherham

Andrew J. Rotherham

Co-Founder, Bellwether Education
Andrew Rotherham
Andrew J. Rotherham is a co-founder and partner at Bellwether Education Partners, a national nonprofit organization working to support educational innovation and improve outcomes for underserved students. Rotherham leads Bellwether’s Policy and Evaluation team. He is also a contributing editor to U.S. News & World Report and a senior editor at The 74, an education news and analysis publication. In addition, Rotherham writes the blog Eduwonk.com, teaches courses on education at The University of Virginia, and is a senior advisor for Whiteboard Advisors. Among other positions Rotherham previously served at The White House as special assistant to the president for domestic policy during the Clinton administration, as a member of the Virginia Board of Education, education columnist for TIME, and executive editor of RealClearEducation. In addition to Bellwether, Rotherham has founded or co-founded two other education organizations and served on the boards of several successful education startups. Rotherham is the author or co-author of more than 450 published articles, book chapters, papers, and op-eds about education policy and politics and is the author or editor of four books on educational policy. He serves on the boards of directors for the Curry School of Education Foundation at the University of Virginia and The 74, and on the international board of directors for Classroom Champions, a Canada-based nonprofit that pairs Olympic and Paralympic athletes with high-poverty classrooms as mentors. Rotherham advises a variety of organizations including Upbeat, a data analytics company focused on teacher retention; the Center for Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington; and The National Young Farmers Coalition.