Martin West is associate professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also editor-in-chief of Education Next, a journal of opinion and research on education policy, and deputy director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Education Policy and Governance. 

Dr. West studies the politics of K-12 education in the United States and how education policies affect student learning and social-emotional development. His current projects include studies of public opinion on education policy, the properties of survey-based measures of social-emotional skills, school and teacher effects on those skills, and the influence of relative pay on teacher quality. 

In 2013-14, Dr. West worked as senior advisor to the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, where he contributed to the drafting of the Every Student Succeeds Act. He previously taught at Brown University and was a research fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is also a founding board member of Rhode Island Mayoral Academies, an organization helping educators open socioeconomically diverse charter schools in partnership with mayors, and a board member of Building Excellent Schools, an organization preparing leaders of college preparatory charter schools.

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