Authors
Jack Schneider
Jack Schneider is the Dwight W. Allen Distinguished professor of education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he leads the Beyond Test Scores Project. An award-winning scholar, his work broadly explores the influence of history, culture, and rhetoric in education policy. The author of six books, Dr. Schneider writes frequently about education in outlets like the Atlantic, the New York Times, and the Washington Post. He is the co-founder of the Massachusetts Consortium for Innovative Education Assessment, co-host of the education policy podcast “Have You Heard,” and co-editor of History of Education Quarterly. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, where his daughter is enrolled in the public schools.
Ethan L. Hutt
Ethan Hutt is an Associate Professor and Gary Stuck Faculty Scholar in Education at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. For more than a decade, Dr. Hutt has researched the historical development, present use, and future possibilities for the tools we use to describe and evaluate the work of schools. This research has included studies on grading and standardized testing as well as measures of teacher quality, attendance, school performance, and public accountability. He has published this work in a wide range of scholarly and mainstream outlets including Educational Researcher, Journal of Teacher Education, Educational Policy, the New York Times, and Washington Post. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with his husband Daniel and dog Holtby.