8 Experts Available for Timely Analysis on Impacts of Trump's Executive Order to Dismantle the Department of Education
With President Trump preparing to sign an executive order to try to dismantle the Education Department, there are many questions about what the effects of such a move would be for K-12 and higher education. For reporters covering these developments and their potential impacts, the following experts are available for comment:
Blissett's research primarily focuses on attitudes and ideologies in the politics of educational equity and justice, and how public ideologies translate into policy action, including in education governance (particularly school boards), as well as anti-racism activism and social movements in education.
Expertise: Public opinion and K-12 education policy
Gordon's research focuses on American education policy, with an emphasis on equity and the federal role in elementary and secondary education. She has studied the distributional impacts of Title I, fiscal rules governing federal education grants, state school finance reforms, school desegregation, and school district consolidation.
Expertise: K-12 education policy
Lubienski’s research centers on education policy and reform in school choice, charter schools, school vouchers, and homeschooling. He has a particular focus on issues in equity, access, and evidence use in policymaking.
Expertise: School choice and charter schools
McGuinn is an expert on education policy and politics. His first book, No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005, was honored as a Choice outstanding academic title.
Expertise: Federal education policy
Polikoff's areas of expertise include K-12 education policy; curriculum, standards, accountability, and assessment policy; survey research methods; and the impact of COVID-19 on American families' educational experiences.
Expertise: K-12 policy and curriculum
Scott-Clayton's research focuses on labor economics and higher education policy; with a particular focus on financial aid; community colleges; and the outcomes of students after college; including labor market trajectories and patterns of student loan default.
Expertise: Financial aid, student loans, community colleges
Stewart researches issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) in U.S. postsecondary education including how DEIJ has shaped the history and philosophy of U.S. higher education; how higher education serves as a crucible for the learning, development, and becoming of minoritized college students; and how institutions of higher education (dis)engage with issues of DEIJ
Expertise: DEIJ in higher education
Warikoo studies beliefs about meritocracy, admissions, affirmative action, and racial equity, and the cultural processes that perpetuate inequality in education. She has studied high schools and selective colleges, in both the United States and Britain.
Expertise: Race, education, and admissions (K-12 and higher ed)