Sign Up for updates from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Featured Video
National
Ohio
Emerging Education Policy Scholars (EEPS)
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American Enterprise Institute have joined forces to offer a unique program aimed at cultivating human capital within the education policy sector. The Emerging Education Policy Scholars (EEPS) 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 cohorts that meet twice in the span of a year—once in the summer, and once in the winter. Past EEPS 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 are now pleased to announce the eighteen scholars invited to participate in our second cohort, which will commence in summer 2012 (see below).
For more information about the EEPS program, please contact program coordinators Matt Richmond and Taryn Hochleitner, or read the EEPS FAQ. The EEPS program is generously supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
EEPS Newsletters
2012-13 Emerging Education Policy Scholars
Angela Boatman
Doctoral candidate, Higher Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education (2012)
Jessica Boccardo
Doctoral candidate, Public Policy, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University (2013)
Deven Carlson
Doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2012)
Graduate research fellow, Wisconsin Center for Education Research
Graduate assistant, Institute for Research on Poverty
Sarah Cohodes
Doctoral candidate, Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government (2016)
Ashley Jochim
Doctoral candidate, Political Science, University of Washington (2012)
Research analyst, Center on Reinventing Public Education, University of Washington
Nate Jensen
Doctoral candidate, Counselor Education, University of Arkansas (2012)
Research specialist, Kingsbury Center, Northwest Evaluation Association
Michael Jones
Doctoral candidate, Economics, University of Notre Dame (2012)
Matthew Kraft
Doctoral candidate, Quantitative Policy Analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education (2013)
Andrew McEachin
Doctoral candidate, Urban Education Policy, University of Southern California (2012)
Michael McShane
Education policy research fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Doctoral candidate, Education Policy, Department of Education Reform, University of Arkansas (2012)
Eric Parsons
Doctoral candidate, Economics, University of Missouri (2013)
Research analyst, Economics Policy and Analysis Research Center, University of Missouri Economics Department
Morgan Polikoff
Assistant professor of Education, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
Ph.D., Education Policy, University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education
Andrew Saultz
Doctoral candidate, Educational Policy, Michigan State University (2013)
Eric Taylor
Doctoral candidate, Economics of Education, Stanford University (2015)
Chris Torres
Doctoral candidate, Department of Teaching and Learning, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education & Human Development, New York University (2013)
Senior manager of online learning, Relay Graduate School of Education
Jon Valant
Doctoral candidate, Educational Policy, Stanford University (2014)
Jennie Weiner
Doctoral candidate, Education Policy, Leadership and Instructional Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Education (2012)
Rebecca Zumeta
Research analyst, American Institutes for Research
Ph.D., Special Education, Vanderbilt University (2010)
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
