Douglas N. Harris is a nonresident senior fellow in the Brown Center for Education Policy at Brookings. Harris is also a professor and chair of the Department of Economics and the Schlieder Foundation Chair in Public Education at Tulane University. He is also the founding director of three centers and projects focused on education policy. Two of these, the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA-New Orleans) and the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH), focus on school choice policy. He is also founding editor of the Live Handbook of Education Policy Research, a new type of digital hub that includes objective, accessible, timely, and comprehensive reviews of education policy research. Finally, he is director of the State of the Nation, a bipartisan effort involving seven of the nation’s leading think tanks from across to political spectrum. The project assesses how the country is doing on everything from the economy and education, to mental health and social capital. Harris has published three books and over 100 academic studies on topics ranging from school accountability and school choice policies, to college access and success. He has testified in the U.S. Senate and advised governors in eight states, the U.S. Department of Education, and Biden Transition. His work has also been cited in almost every major national and international media outlet.
Outside of Brookings, Harris formerly provided informal counsel to the Biden team.
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Current Positions
- Nonresident Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution
- Tulane University, Founder and Director, National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice (REACH)
- Founder and Editor, Live Handbook of Education Policy Research
- Founder and Director, State of the Nation Project
- Tulane University, Professor of Economics
- Tulane University, Schleider Foundation Chair in Public Education
- Tulane University, Founder and Director, Education Research Alliance for New Orleans
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Past Positions
- Tulane University, Associate Professor of Economics
- University of Wisconsin at Madison, Associate Professor of Educational Policy and Public Affairs (tenured)
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Education
- Michigan State University, Ph.D Economics
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Languages
- English
- Spanish
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