Nora Gordon

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

School districts are grappling with how to spend the latest and largest installment of federal relief for public schools, the American Recovery Plan’s $123…

The Problem With the Way We Use Evidence in Education

An excerpt from the new book: Common Sense Evidence: The Education Leader’s Guide to Using Data and Research. Advocates of evidence-based policy have lamented…

How Federal Covid Aid Can Support Students and Schools

Covid-19 has upended, along with everything else, the balance sheets of the nation’s elementary and secondary schools. As soon as school buildings closed…

An Economist’s View on Tax Reform and Public Schools

Public K-12 education depends heavily on state and local funding. But the federal government makes it easier to raise the funds necessary to pay for public…

Why Net Neutrality Matters for K-12 Education

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released its plan to dismantle the Obama Administration’s 2015 net neutrality rules.

What Title I Portability Would Mean for Federal Education Aid

Congressional attempts in the last few years to allow states to divert their Title I funds through the Elementary and Secondary Education Act into vouchers that…