Bryan C. Hassel is co-director of Public Impact. He consults nationally on charter schools and the reform of existing public schools. In the charter school arena, he is a recognized expert on state charter school policies, accountability and oversight systems, and facilities financing. Other areas of education reform in which he has worked extensively include school district restructuring, comprehensive school reform, and teaching quality. President Bush appointed him to serve on the national Commission on Excellence in Special Education, which produced its report in July 2002. In addition to numerous articles, monographs, and how-to guides for practitioners, he is the author of The Charter School Challenge: Avoiding the Pitfalls, Fulfilling the Promise and co-editor of Learning from School Choice, published by the Brookings Institution Press in 1999 and 1998. Dr. Hassel received his doctorate in public policy from Harvard University and his masters in politics from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.
Authored Commentary & Research

Quality Choices
Is Detente Possible? District-charter school relations in four cities
Daniela Doyle, Christen Holly, Bryan C. Hassel 11.4.2015
NationalReport

Great teachers can teach more students, even without raising class sizes
Bryan C. Hassel 11.20.2013
NationalFlypaper

Authorizers: See what replacing failing charter schools, replicating great ones can do
Bryan C. Hassel 3.18.2013
OhioBlog

High Expectations
Education Reform for the Digital Era
Bryan C. Hassel, Emily Ayscue Hassel, Tamara Butler Battaglino, Matt Haldeman, Paul T. Hill, John E. Chubb 4.20.2012
NationalReport

School Choice
Turning the Corner to Quality
Bryan C. Hassel, C. Peter Svahn, Louann Bierlein Palmer, Michelle Godard Terrell 10.11.2006
OhioReport

Quality Choices
Charter School Funding: Inequity's Next Frontier
Sheree Speakman, Chester E. Finn, Jr., Bryan C. Hassel 8.24.2005
NationalReport