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Senior Fellow

Tom Loveless

Tom Loveless

Senior Fellow, Governance Studies

Tom Loveless, a former sixth-grade teacher and Harvard public policy professor, is an expert on student achievement, education policy, and reform in K-12 schools. He also is a member of the National Math Advisory Panel.



Expertise

Education policy; education reform; K-12 schools

Background

Past Positions
Director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, Brookings Institution; Associate Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Teacher, Pershing School, San Juan Unified School District, Orangevale, California

Education

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1992; M.A., California State University at Sacramento, 1984; B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1975

"Students don't know how to translate fractions into decimals or into percentages and they can't locate fractions on a number line."


Research and Commentary

Save to My PortfolioThe 2010 Brown Center Report on American EducationFebruary 07, 2011Brown Center Report on American Education
Save to My PortfolioNAEP and the Common Core StandardsJanuary 11, 2011Brown Center Report on American Education
Save to My PortfolioCharter Schools: A Report on Rethinking the Federal Role in EducationDecember 16, 2010The Brookings Brown Center Task Group on Charter Schools
Save to My PortfolioThe 2009 Brown Center Report on American EducationMarch 17, 2010Brown Center Report on American Education
Save to My PortfolioExpanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary EducationFebruary 02, 2010The Brookings Institution
Save to My PortfolioSmart Child Left Behind August 28, 2009The New York Times
Save to My PortfolioThe "Golden Age" of American EducationAugust 27, 2009The Kojo Nnamdi Show
Save to My PortfolioPolicy Implications of the National Mathematics Advisory Panel Final ReportOctober 16, 2008The National Mathematics Advisory Panel
Save to My PortfolioThe Misplaced Math Student: Lost in Eighth-Grade Algebra September 22, 2008Brown Center Report on American Education
Save to My PortfolioHigh-Achieving Students in the Era of No Child Left BehindJune 18, 2008The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Save to My PortfolioThe State of Math StandardsJuly 25, 2007Education Week
Save to My PortfolioThe Peculiar Politics of No Child Left BehindAugust 2006The Brookings Institution
Save to My PortfolioHow Program Officers at Education Philanthropies View EducationApril 25, 2005""With the Best of Intentions: Lessons Learned in K-12 Education Philanthropy"" (AEI Conference)

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Contact Information

202.797.6105
Brookings Office of Communications

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