Carrie Conaway is a senior lecturer at HGSE and immediate past president of the Association for Education Finance and Policy. Until June 2019, she was the chief strategy and research officer for the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary...
Richard Murnane, an economist, is Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Over the last 40 years, Murnane has studied relationships between the U.S...
Nonie K. Lesaux is the Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education and Society. Her research focuses on promoting the language and literacy skills of today's children from diverse linguistic, cultural and economic backgrounds, and is...
Christopher Avery teaches analytic courses in microeconomics and statistics. He studies rating and selection mechanisms, focusing on the college admissions system. His first book, The Early Admissions Game, coauthored with Andrew Fairbanks and Richard...
Andrew Ho is appointed as a professor of education. He is a psychometrician interested in educational accountability metrics: an intersection between educational statistics and educational policies. He has studied the consequences of "proficiency"-based...
Gary King is the Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor at Harvard University -- one of 24 with the title of University Professor, Harvard's most distinguished faculty position. He is based in the Department of Government (in the Faculty of Arts...
Paul E. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Editor-In-Chief of Education...
Catherine Snow is an expert on language and literacy development in children, focusing on how oral language skills are acquired and how they relate to literacy outcomes. Snow has chaired two national panels: the National Academy of Sciences committee that...
Martin West studies the politics of K-12 education policy in the United States and the effectiveness of reform strategies in improving student achievement. His current projects include studies of the teacher labor market in Florida, the effects of...
Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, and Harvard Kennedy School of Government faculty member, holds his BA in sociology and mathematics from Dartmouth College and PhD in sociology from Harvard. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the...
