The Thomas B. Fordham Institute and the American Enterprise Institute offer a unique program aimed at cultivating human capital within the education-policy sector. The Emerging Education Policy Scholars (EEPS) program brings 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 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.
For more information about the EEPS program, please contact program coordinator Victoria McDougald. The EEPS program is generously supported by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
Class of 2010-11
Daphna Bassok
Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia
Hella Bel Hadj Amor
Practice Expert: Education Policy and Research, Education Northwest
Branin Bowe
Senior Research Associate, Kingsbury Center, Northwest Evaluation Association
Zoë Burkholder
Associate Professor, Education Foundations, Montclair State University
Matt Chingos
Senior Fellow and Research Director, Brown Center on Education Policy, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution
Erin Cocke
Doctoral Candidate, Sociology of Education, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University
Research Assistant, Institute for Education and Social Policy
Diana D’Amico
Assistant Professor of Education, George Mason University
T. Elon Dancy II
Associate Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy, University of Oklahoma
Rachel Dinkes
Senior Researcher, American Institutes for Research
Will Dobbie
Assistant Professor, Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Enis Dogan
Associate Director, Assessment Research, Achieve
Todd Grindal
Education Associate, Abt Associates
Jason Grissom
Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University
Michael Hansen
Principal Researcher, Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research Program, American Institutes for Research
Michael Hartney
Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Lake Forest College
Julia Kaufman
Associate Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
Cory Koedel
Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Missouri
Victoria Rankin Marks
Research Analyst, American Institutes for Research
Ashlyn Aiko Nelson
Associate Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University
Jonna Perrillo
Associate Professor of English Education, University of Texas at El Paso
Karen Rambo-Hernandez
Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership Studies, West Virginia Unviersity
Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj
Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership, Management, and Policy, Seton Hall University
Muna Shami
Senior Researcher, American Institute for Research
Arnold Shober
Associate Professor of Government, Lawrence University
Katharine Strunk
Associate Professor of Education and Policy, Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California
David Stuit
Partner, Basis Policy Research
Eric Tucker
Co-Founder and Executive Director, Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School
Jennifer Wallner
Assistant Professor, School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa