Nora Gordon is a professor at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to moving to Georgetown, Gordon served as a staff economist for President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisors and as a member of the economics faculty at the University of California, San Diego. She is the recipient of research fellowships from the Spencer Foundation, the National Academy of Education, and the American Educational Research Association, and other organizations. She lectures widely on education policy. And she has contributed to a wide range of scholarly publications on school desegregation, federal education programs, and other topics. Gordon earned a doctorate in economics from Harvard University. She is the co-author of Common-Sense Evidence: The Education Leader's Guide to Using Data and Research.
Work by Nora Gordon

Parsing the Evidence Requirements of Federal Covid Aid
Nora Gordon Jun 03, 2021School districts are grappling with how to spend the latest and largest installment of…

The Problem With the Way We Use Evidence in Education
Nora Gordon Carrie Conaway Oct 06, 2020An excerpt from the new book: Common Sense Evidence: The Education Leader’s Guide to Using…

How Federal Covid Aid Can Support Students and Schools
Nora Gordon Sarah Reber Jun 08, 2020Covid-19 has upended, along with everything else, the balance sheets of the nation’s elementary and…

An Economist’s View on Tax Reform and Public Schools
Nora Gordon Dec 18, 2017Public K-12 education depends heavily on state and local funding. But the federal government makes it…

Why Net Neutrality Matters for K-12 Education
Nora Gordon Nov 29, 2017Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released its plan to dismantle the Obama Administration’s…

What Title I Portability Would Mean for Federal Education Aid
Nora Gordon Mar 11, 2017Congressional attempts in the last few years to allow states to divert their Title I…