Professor John Papay is an Associate Professor of Education and Economics at Brown University. His research focuses primarily on two major areas: policies that affect teachers and the equitable distribution of effective teachers across schools, and how educational institutions affect student success from K-12 to college and beyond.

Meet Roosevelt Saifa Brown '23 A.M., Urban Education Policy! After nearly a decade of working in urban school districts, Roosevelt joined UEP to learn how to improve structural and systemic issues in urban public education.

“High-impact tutoring is a relationship-based tutoring,” said Susanna Loeb, the director of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, which produces research on effective education practices. “It relies on an adult to understand a student, understand their needs, be there to celebrate successes with them, be there to support them.”

David Upegui, Adjunct Lecturer in Education, Teacher Residency Site Leader at Central Falls, and science teacher has been named among the 2022 nationwide class of PBS Digital Innovator All-Stars for his work encouraging students to be innovative thinkers and future community leaders.

Mahasan Chaney is an Assistant Professor of Education. Her research and teaching focus on education policy and the history of education, and center on three related policy areas: the racial politics of education, the politics of school punishment, and the ideologies and discourses of education reform.

Professor David Rangel contributes to a multi-part discussion about the growing needs of low-income families as well as the extent to which public policy effectively serves them and how it can be improved.

In a study co-authored by Professor Matthew Kraft, Danielle Sanderson Edwards, and others, researchers show that teacher vacancy levels vary drastically between schools in the same communities.

Meet Celenah Watson '23, a Brown undergraduate concentrating in Education Studies. Celenah is also a co-leader of our Departmental Undergraduate Group (DUG), which plans events and activities to build a sense of community within the concentration.

Alums of Brown University's Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program and former Urban Teacher Education Program (UTEP) answer the question: what keeps you coming back to the classroom each year to teach?

It's clear that school policing needs to change. In his latest column for Kappan Magazine, Professor Jonathan Collins lays out an idea of what community policing in schools should look like.

Over the past decade, “nudging” has gone from a novel concept to standard practice across many higher education institutions. Professor Lindsay Page weighs in on whether–and when–nudging works and should be deployed to improve student outcomes.

Professor Matthew Kraft and co-authors partnered with Chicago Public Schools, the nation’s fourth largest district, to design an approach that would bring more substitute teachers into hard-to-staff schools and keep them coming back consistently. They found that incentive pay led to a drop in classrooms without a teacher to cover — and a rise in student reading.

Tutoring can come in many forms. But no matter what form it takes, tutoring will be the most important factor in helping students catch up academically after the pandemic, a panel of experts, including Professor Susanna Loeb, told an EdSource roundtable.

Professor Emily Kalejs Qazilbash is a Professor of Practice in Education at Brown University. Before coming to Brown, she served as Chief Human Capital Officer in the Boston Public Schools but began her career as a teacher in Baltimore and Boston. Her research and teaching focus on how to create policies that help to diversify the teacher workforce, address issues of teacher quality, and ensure that students have an effective teacher in every classroom.

Recent research co-authored by Matthew Kraft suggests that expanding instructional time, particularly for schools with shorter days and years, can play an important role in ongoing efforts to accelerate student learning following disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

HON Gilbert Cisneros Jr., a U.S. Navy veteran, urban education policy A.M. alum, and the nation's Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, delivered the keynote speech at Brown's Veterans Day ceremony.

In this episode of Subtraction in Action, Professor Matt Kraft discusses his paper, “Instructional Time in U.S. Public Schools: Wide Variation, Causal Effects, and Lost Hours.”

In this research, Lindsay Page and co-authors assess the impact of Achieve Atlanta place-based scholarship and support services on college enrollment, persistence, and completion for students graduating from a school district in metro Atlanta.

The Brown Department of Education's Faculty Flash Talk Series highlights the research and teaching practices of our faculty, with a particular focus on how their work addresses educational inequality and makes a positive impact on society.

Meet Thomas Reid '23 MAT, a member of the social studies cohort!

Professor Kenneth Wong weighs in on how a shift in control of either or both houses of Congress during the 2022 midterm elections would mean changes for the Biden administration's education policy.

A new research paper co-authored by Professor John Papay shows that Massachusetts state policies aimed at making the community college transfer process easier have coincided with an increase in transfers to four-year colleges and universities among those from relatively higher-income households, but no change in the share of students from lower-income families making that transition.

Meet Elise Cole, a Boston native who plans to leverage her UEP degree to start a career in public school administration.