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Chancellor’s Award for Research

A. Ross Thomas Outstanding Paper Award

Faculty Fellow, Tennessee Education Research Alliance

Faculty Affiliate, Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, Vanderbilt University

Thomas B. Fordham Institute/American Enterprise Institute Emerging Education Policy Scholar

Policy Research Scholar, University of Missouri Institute of Public Policy

American Educational Research Alliance

The Impacts of Principal Turnover

Principal sorting and the distribution of principal quality

Strategic retention: Principal effectiveness and teacher turnover in multiple-measure teacher evaluation systems

Principal preparation programs and principal outcomes

Mapping Inequalities in Local Political Representation: Evidence from Ohio School Boards

Jason A. Grissom is Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy and Education at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College and faculty director of the Tennessee Education Research Alliance. His research uses large-scale administrative and survey data—often coupled with data from interviews and observations—to study school and district leadership, educator mobility, and issues of educational equity. His work has appeared in such top outlets as the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Educational Researcher, Education Finance and Policy, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Journal of Politics, and Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory.

Dr. Grissom has authored more than 60 peer-reviewed articles on such topics as principal hiring, evaluation, preparation, diversity, supervision, and effectiveness. He is also an expert on the causes and consequences of turnover among superintendents, principals, and teachers. Dr. Grissom is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and past president of the Association for Education Finance and Policy. He holds a M.A. in Education Policy and a Ph.D. in Political Economics from Stanford University.

Teacher effectiveness

School Boards

K-12 Administration

Education Policy and Leadership

Teacher Pay

Race and Gender of the Public Education Workforce

Governance of K-12 Education

Leadership Effectiveness

Leadership Principals

School and District Leaders

Teacher Mobility

Education Policy

Teacher Evaluations

Teacher Turnover

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We Pay Superintendents Big Bucks and Expect Them to Succeed. But We Hardly Know Them

New Study Finds Gifted Programs Favor Wealth Over Ability

Unequal access to gifted-and-talented education is a national disgrace

Money over merit? New study says gifted programs favor students from wealthier families

Nashville schools opened with nearly 100 teacher vacancies this year; here's why it's a chronic problem

Study finds that new principals can boost student achievement — with a little help

Why Struggling Schools End Up With Less Effective Principals

Why principals lie to ineffective teachers: Honesty takes too long

Why Talented Black and Hispanic Students Can Go Undiscovered

Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy and Education

Jason Grissom, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education, talks about his research and recent projects at Peabody. Visit http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/bio/jason-grissom to learn more.

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