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Who are the most influential education policy academics?
Rick Hess ranks the public impact of 200 university-based scholars
WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 7, 2015)—American Enterprise Institute director of Education Policy
Frederick M. Hess released his “Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings,” which recognizes 200 universitybased scholars who shape public discussions of education. Using eight metrics, Hess calculated how
much university-based academics moved ideas from academic journals into the national conversation.
“One small way to encourage academics to step into the fray and revisit academic norms is, I think, by
doing more to recognize and value those scholars who engage in public discourse,” explained Hess.
“These results offer insight into how scholars in a field of public concern are influencing thinking and the
national discourse.”
In order, the top five were Diane Ravitch, Linda Darling-Hammond, Howard Gardner, Gary Orfield, and
Paul E. Peterson. Rounding out the top ten were Andy Hargreaves, David Berliner, Larry Cuban, Yong
Zhao, and Gene V. Glass.
More than 50 universities claimed a spot in the top 200. Stanford University (4), Harvard University (3),
New York University (2), and Arizona State University (2) placed multiple scholars in the top 20, and
Stanford topped all other universities with 21 scholars ranked in all.
For more information about the Public Influence Rankings, please contact Jenn Hatfield at
jenn.hatfield@aei.org or (202)862-5859. To schedule an interview with Rick, please contact Elizabeth
English at elizabeth.english@aei.org or (202)862-5822.
The 2015 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings:
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29 (tie)
29 (tie)
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
Diane Ravitch
Linda Darling-Hammond
Howard Gardner
Gary Orfield
Paul E. Peterson
Andy Hargreaves
David Berliner
Larry Cuban
Yong Zhao
Gene V. Glass
Pedro Noguera
Gloria Ladson-Billings
Robert Slavin
Joseph Murphy
Eric Hanushek
Carol Tomlinson
W. Steven Barnett
Marybeth Gasman
Richard F. Elmore
Nel Noddings
Henry M. Levin
Robert Pianta
Richard J. Murnane
Martin Carnoy
Daniel T. Willingham
Jonathan Zimmerman
Deborah L. Ball
Tony Wagner
Mike Rose
Sara Goldrick-Rab
Michael W. Kirst
Sonia Nieto
Caroline Hoxby
Charles Clotfelter
Marc Lamont Hill
Jeannie Oakes
Helen (Sunny) Ladd
Angela Duckworth
Anthony S. Bryk
NYU
Stanford
Harvard
UCLA
Harvard
Boston College
Arizona State
Stanford
U. Oregon
Arizona State
NYU
U. Wisconsin
Johns Hopkins
Vanderbilt
Stanford
U. Virginia
Rutgers
U. Penn
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia (TC)
U. Virginia
Harvard
Stanford
U. Virginia
NYU
U. Michigan
Harvard
UCLA
U. Wisconsin
Stanford
UMass Amherst
Stanford
Duke
Morehouse
UCLA
Duke
U. Penn
Stanford
40
41
42 (tie)
42 (tie)
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53 (tie)
53 (tie)
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72 (tie)
72 (tie)
74
75
76
77 (tie)
77 (tie)
79
80
Laura Perna
Kenneth Zeichner
Shaun R. Harper
Stephen Raudenbush
Helen Neville
Kurt Fischer
Marilyn Cochran-Smith
Richard Arum
Thomas J. Kane
Richard Ingersoll
Jay P. Greene
Susanna Loeb
Terry Moe
Camilla Benbow
Bruce Fuller
Patricia Gandara
David K. Cohen
David Kirp
Andrew C. Porter
John D. Bransford
Hirokazu Yoshikawa
Laura Hamilton
Sean Reardon
Marcelo Suarez-Orozco
Bruce D. Baker
Richard Rothstein
David Figlio
James P. Comer
James Spillane
David R. Garcia
William (Bill) Schmidt
Sam Wineburg
Adam Gamoran
Susan Dynarski
Curtis Bonk
Lynn Fuchs
Amy Stuart Wells
Dan Goldhaber
Donald Heller
Barbara Schneider
Louis Gomez
U. Penn
U. Washington
U. Penn
U. Chicago
U. Oregon
Harvard
Boston College
NYU
Harvard
U. Penn
U. Arkansas
Stanford
Stanford
Vanderbilt
UC Berkeley
UCLA
U. Michigan
UC Berkeley
U. Penn
U. Washington
NYU
UC Merced
Stanford
UCLA
Rutgers
UC Berkeley (Law School)
Northwestern
Yale
Northwestern
Arizona State
Michigan State
Stanford
U. Wisconsin
U. Michigan
Indiana U.
Vanderbilt
Columbia (TC)
U. Washington
Michigan State
Michigan State
UCLA
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94 (tie)
94 (tie)
96
97
98 (tie)
98 (tie)
100
101
102
103
104
105 (tie)
105 (tie)
107
108 (tie)
108 (tie)
110
111
112
113 (tie)
113 (tie)
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
Douglas Staiger
Lorrie Shepard
James E. Ryan
Susan Fuhrman
Thomas R. Bailey
Jacob Vigdor
Ernest Morrell
Josipa Roksa
Kevin G. Welner
H. Richard Milner
Jeffrey R. Henig
Jonathan A. Plucker
Susan Moore Johnson
Sharon Lynn Kagan
Rob Reich
David Labaree
Margaret Beale Spencer
Eva L. Baker
Morgan Polikoff
Benjamin L. Castleman
Prudence Carter
Paul T. Hill
Peter W. Cookson
Ellen Goldring
Malachy Bishop
Jesse Rothstein
Kenneth K. Wong
Aaron Pallas
Patrick J. Wolf
David Breneman
Okhee Lee
Dan Butin
Gary Miron
Sarah E. Turner
Daniel Koretz
Nell K. Duke
Julian R. Betts
Roland Fryer
Thomas Dee
Dominic Brewer
Alex Molnar
Dartmouth
CU Boulder
Harvard
Columbia (TC)
Columbia (TC)
U. Washington
Columbia (TC)
U. Virginia
CU Boulder
U. Pittsburgh
Columbia (TC)
U. Connecticut
Harvard
Columbia (TC)
Stanford
Stanford
U. Chicago
UCLA
USC
U. Virginia
Stanford
U. Washington
Georgetown
Vanderbilt
U. Kentucky
UC Berkeley
Brown
Columbia (TC)
U. Arkansas
U. Virginia
NYU
Merrimack
Western Michigan U.
U. Virginia
Harvard
U. Michigan
UC San Diego
Harvard
Stanford
NYU
CU Boulder
122
123
124
125 (tie)
125 (tie)
127 (tie)
127 (tie)
129
130
131
132
133 (tie)
133 (tie)
135
136
137
138
139
140
141 (tie)
141 (tie)
143
144
145
146 (tie)
146 (tie)
146 (tie)
149 (tie)
149 (tie)
151
152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160
161
162 (tie)
Michelle D. Young
Scott McLeod
Bruce McCandliss
John Witte
Gary T. Henry
Mitchell Stevens
Carol D. Lee
Michael Podgursky
Paul Teske
Elaine Allensworth
Joshua Aronson
Kris Gutierrez
Priscilla (Penny) Wohlstetter
Steven Rivkin
Michael Rebell
James H. Wyckoff
Bob Boruch
Jal Mehta
Heather C. Hill
Brian A. Jacob
David Deming
William Perez
Robert Maranto
Margaret Grogan
Martin West
Christopher Lubienski
Melissa Roderick
Geoffrey Borman
Douglas N. Harris
Patrick J. McGuinn
Margaret (Peg) Goertz
Peter Arcidiacono
Edward H. Haertel
Gary Sykes
Ronald F. Ferguson
Robin J. Lake
Pam Grossman
Charles M. Payne
Dale Ballou
Eric Bettinger
Michael J. Feuer
U. Virginia
U. Kentucky
Stanford
U. Wisconsin
Vanderbilt
Stanford
Northwestern
U. Missouri
CU Denver
U. Chicago
NYU
CU Boulder
Columbia (TC)
U. Illinois at Chicago
Columbia (TC)
U. Virginia
U. Penn
Harvard
Harvard
U. Michigan
Harvard
Claremont Graduate U.
U. Arkansas
Claremont Graduate U.
Harvard
U. Illinois
U. Chicago
U. Wisconsin
Tulane
Drew
U. Penn
Duke
Stanford
Michigan State
Harvard
U. Washington
Stanford
U. Chicago
Vanderbilt
Stanford
George Washington
162 (tie)
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
195
196
197
198
199
200
Bridget Terry Long
Tim R. Sass
Sherman Dorn
Erica Frankenberg
Thomas Smith
Jane Hannaway
Elizabeth Birr Moje
Judith Scott-Clayton
Ron Zimmer
Stella Flores
John H. Tyler
Daphna Bassok
Jeff Duncan-Andrade
Julian Vasquez Heilig
Jonah Rockoff
Derek Briggs
Katrina (Kati) Bulkley
Marcus Winters
Mary Helen Immordino-Yang
Margaret (Macke) Raymond
Mark C. Long
Michael N. Bastedo
Matthew G. Springer
Robert Teranishi
Marguerite Roza
Paul Manna
Jennifer King Rice
Luis A. Huerta
Janelle Scott
Michal Kurlaender
Rebecca Jacobsen
Vivian L. Gadsden
Douglas D. Ready
Andrew Ho
Sarah Reckhow
Laura M. Desimone
Jennifer Jennings
Katharine Strunk
Harvard
Georgia State
Arizona State
Penn State
UC Riverside
Georgetown
U. Michigan
Columbia (TC)
Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Brown
U. Virginia
SF State
California State Sacramento
Columbia (Business School)
CU Boulder
Montclair State
UC Colorado Springs
USC
Stanford
U. Washington
U. Michigan
Vanderbilt
UCLA
Georgetown
William & Mary
U. Maryland
Columbia (TC)
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
Michigan State
U. Penn
Columbia (TC)
Harvard
Michigan State
U. Penn
NYU
USC