Emerging Education Policy Scholars (EEPS)

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American Enterprise Institute have jointly embarked upon a new project with the purpose of cultivating human capital within the education- policy sector. The program brings up-and-coming scholars to our nation’s capital to meet with education-policy experts and to share and brainstorm exciting new directions for K-12 education research. The program focuses on three over-arching goals:

• To foster an opportunity for talented, promising scholars to connect with other scholars in their field, as well as to introduce them to key players in the education- policy arena;
• To expand the pool of talent and ideas from which the education- policy arena currently draws; and
• To increase understanding of how the worlds of policy and practice intersect with scholarly research in education and related fields.

EEPS comprise a diverse group of promising, newly-minted Ph.D. scholars and Ph.D. candidates who bring to the table a keen research eye, fresh ideas, and boundless (or budding) enthusiasm for education policy.

EEPS are organized into two-year cohorts that meet three times over those two years. After meeting three, cohorts graduate to “alumni status” and participants have the opportunity to present at future EEPS meetings to new cohorts.

Fordham and AEI launched the EEPS program in the summer of 2010 in Washington, D.C., at which time we welcomed twenty-eight promising education-policy scholars. We will begin accepting applications for our 2012-2013 EEPS cohort on a rolling basis in January 2012. For more information about the EEPS program, please contact Program Coordinators Janie Scull and Taryn Hochleitner at jscull@edexcellence.net and  taryn.hochleitner@aei.org, or read the EEPS FAQ. The EEPS program is generously supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

EEPS Newsletters

October 2010 EEPS Newsletter

May 2011 EEPS Newsletter

2010-2011 Emerging Education Policy Scholars

Daphna Bassok
Assistant Professor of Education Policy
Curry School of Education, University of Virginia

Hella Bel Hadj Amor
Senior Researcher
American Institutes for Research

Branin Bowe
Independent Consultant and Research Assistant
Center for Assessment, Statistics, and Evaluation, University of Oregon

Zoë Burkholder
Assistant Professor, Education Foundations
Montclair State University

Matt Chingos
Fellow
Brown Center on Education Policy, Brookings Institution

Erin Cocke
Ph.D. candidate in the Sociology of Education
New York University

Diana D’Amico
Assistant Professor of Education
George Mason University

T. Elon Dancy II
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy
University of Oklahoma

Rachel Dinkes
Senior Research Analyst
American Institutes for Research

Will Dobbie
Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy
Harvard University

Enis Dogan
Senior Research Scientist
American Institutes of Research’s NAEP Education Statistics Services Institute

Todd Grindal
Ed.D. candidate, Educational Policy Leadership & Instructional Practice
Harvard Graduate School of Education

Jason Grissom
Assistant Professor of Public Affairs
Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri

Michael Hansen
Research Associate
Education Policy Center, The Urban Institute

Michael Hartney
Ph.D. candidate in Political Science
University of Notre Dame

Julia Kaufman
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University & RAND

Cory Koedel
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Missouri

Victoria Rankin Marks
Research Analyst
American Institutes for Research

Ashlyn Aiko Nelson
Assistant Professor
School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University

Jonna Perrillo
Assistant Professor of English Education
University of Texas at El Paso

Karen Rambo
Ph.D. candidate in Measurement, Evaluation, and Assessment in Educational Psychology
University of Connecticut

Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj
Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership
Seton Hall University

Muna Shami
Senior Research Analyst
American Institute for Research

Arnold Shober
Assistant Professor of Government
Lawrence University

Katharine Strunk
Assistant Professor of Education and Policy
Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California

David Stuit
Partner
Basis Policy Research

Eric Tucker
Co-Founder, Interim Executive Director, and Chief Academic Officer
The National Association for Urban Debate Leagues

Jennifer Wallner
Assistant Professor
Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina