Jay P. Greene

Jay P. Greene is Distinguished Professor and head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Greene’s current areas of research interest include school choice and the effects on students of culturally enriching field trips to art museums and theaters. He is also known for his work to improve the accurate reporting of high school graduation rates, address financial incentives in special education, and the use of standardized tests to curb social promotion.

His research was cited four times in the Supreme Court’s opinions in the landmark Zelman v. Simmons-Harris case on school vouchers. His research has appeared in academic journals, such as Education Finance and Policy, Economics of Education Review, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, as well as in major newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and the Washington Post. Greene is the author of Education Myths (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) and Why America Needs School Choice (Encounter Broadside, 2011).

• Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
• Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts

Examples of his recent peer-reviewed articles include:

• Greene,J. P, Hitt, C., Kraybill, A., & Bogulski, C. A. (2015). Learning from live theater. Education Next, 15(1), 54-61.
• Kisida, B., Greene, J. P., & Bowen, D. H. (2014). Creating cultural consumers: The dynamics of cultural capital acquisition, Sociology of Education, 87(4), 281-295.
• Greene, J. P., Kisida, B., & Bowen, D. H. (2014). The educational value of field trips. Education Next, 14(1), 78-86.
• Bowen, D. H., Greene, J. P., & Kisida, B. (2014). Learning to think critically: A visual art experiment. Educational Researcher, 43(1), 37-44.
• Margulis, E. H., Kisida, B., & Greene, J. P. (2013). A knowing ear: The effect of explicit information on children’s experience of a musical performance. Psychology of Music, Advance online publication. 1-10.
• Bowen, D. H., & Greene, J. P. (2012). Does athletic success come at the expense of academic success?. Journal of Research in Education, 22(2), 1-22.
• Winters, M. A., & Greene, J. P. (2012). The medium-run effects of Florida’s test-based promotion policy. Education Finance and Policy, 7(3), 305-330.
• Winters, M. A., Dixon, B. L., & Greene, J. P. (2012). Observed characteristics and teacher quality: Impacts of sample selection on a value added model. Economics of Education Review, 31(1), 19-32.
• Winters, M. A., & Greene, J. P. (2011). Public school response to special education vouchers: The impact of Florida’s McKay Scholarship Program on disability diagnosis and student achievement in public schools. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 33(2), 138-158.
• Greene, J. P. (2011). The Big Rock Candy Mountain of education. In G. Forster & C. B. Thompson (Eds.), Freedom and School Choice in American Education (pp. 1-16). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.
• Greene, J. P., & Winters, M. A. (2011). Florida’s program to end social promotion. In D. L. Leal & C. B. Thompson (Eds.), The politics of Latino education (pp. 58-71). New York, NY: Teachers College Press.
• Winters, M. A., Trivitt, J. R., & Greene, J. P. (2010). The impact of high-stakes testing on student proficiency in low-stakes subjects: Evidence from Florida’s elementary science exam. Economics of Education Review, 29(1), 138-146.

Jay P. Greene runs an award-winning group blog, Jay P. Greene’s Blog, that covers education policy.