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The Limitations of Self-Report Measures of Non-cognitive Skills

December 18, 2014

Brookings Institution—The Brown Center Chalkboard | By Martin R. West (Faculty, Ph.D. '06)

Why Do Americans Rate Their Local Public Schools So Favorably?

October 23, 2014

Brookings Institution—The Brown Center Chalkboard | By Martin R. West (Faculty, Ph.D. '06)

Martin R. West

PhD in Government and Social Policy, 2006.
William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Deputy Director, Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard Kennedy School.

Teachers versus the Public: What Americans Think about Schools and How to Fix Them, by Paul E. Peterson, Michael Henderson (PhD '11), and Martin R. West (PhD. '06) has been published by The Brookings Institution (2014).

Martin West's earlier book (co-edited with Joshua Dunn), From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary’s Role in American Education, examines the increase in judicial involvement in education policymaking over the past 50 years. Brookings Institution Press, 2009).

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Jessica Welburn Paige

PhD in Sociology, 2011.
Assistant Professor of Sociology and African American Studies, University of Iowa.

Jessica Welburn Paige is currently working on a book tentatively titled Keep on Pushin’ that uses in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations to explore how working class and middle class African Americans in Detroit, MI navigate the city’s crumbling infrastructure.

Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation Fellow, The Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Harvard University, 2018.

Co-author of Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil and Israel, by Michèle Lamont, Graziela Silva, Joshua Guetzkow, Nissim Mizrahi, Hannah Herzog and Elisa Reis, Princeton University Press (2016).