Christopher Lubienski
Christopher Lubienski is a Professor of education policy and Director of the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Education, a fellow with the American Educational Research Association, a fellow at the National Education Policy Center, Guest Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Global Studies of Educational Leadership and Collaboration at East China Normal University in Shanghai, and Adjunct Professor at Murdoch University in Western Australia, where he also served as Sir Walter Murdoch Visiting Professor. He also convened the Scholar Strategy Network’s K-12 Working Group.
His research focuses on education policy, reform, and the political economy of education, with a particular concern for issues of equity, access, and evidence use in policymaking. His current work examines (1) organizational responses to competitive conditions in local education markets, including analyses of their impacts on education opportunities, access, and equity, and (2) advocacy organizations and their ability to promote research evidence utilization as well as mis-information.
After earning a PhD in education policy and social analysis at Michigan State University, Lubienski held post-doctoral fellowships with the National Academy of Education and with the Advanced Studies Program at Brown University. He was named a Fulbright Senior Scholar for New Zealand, where he studies school policies and student enrollment patterns. He has authored both theoretical and empirical journal articles on questions of innovation and achievement in school choice systems, including peer-reviewed articles in top journals such as the American Journal of Education, the Oxford Review of Education, the American Educational Research Journal, the Journal of Education Policy, Educational Researcher, and the Congressional Quarterly Researcher. He is ranked as one of the top 2% of scientists world-wide in all fields by Stanford/Elsevier, and has been listed every year in Education Week’s annual list of most influential university-based education scholars.
His work has been funded by the federal Institute of Education Sciences, the William T. Grant Foundation, the Australian Research Council, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Spencer Foundation. Lubienski has also been invited to testify before the U.S. Congress and state legislatures, and his work has been featured in news media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, La Liberacion, Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Times Education Supplement, and Business Week. His 2014 book, The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools (with co-author Sarah Theule Lubienski, University of Chicago Press), won the PROSE Award for Education Theory from the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence. His most recent book is Comparative Perspectives on School Segregation (co-edited with Laura Perry and Emma Rowe; Routledge, 2024).
Phone: (812) 856-8389
His research focuses on education policy, reform, and the political economy of education, with a particular concern for issues of equity, access, and evidence use in policymaking. His current work examines (1) organizational responses to competitive conditions in local education markets, including analyses of their impacts on education opportunities, access, and equity, and (2) advocacy organizations and their ability to promote research evidence utilization as well as mis-information.
After earning a PhD in education policy and social analysis at Michigan State University, Lubienski held post-doctoral fellowships with the National Academy of Education and with the Advanced Studies Program at Brown University. He was named a Fulbright Senior Scholar for New Zealand, where he studies school policies and student enrollment patterns. He has authored both theoretical and empirical journal articles on questions of innovation and achievement in school choice systems, including peer-reviewed articles in top journals such as the American Journal of Education, the Oxford Review of Education, the American Educational Research Journal, the Journal of Education Policy, Educational Researcher, and the Congressional Quarterly Researcher. He is ranked as one of the top 2% of scientists world-wide in all fields by Stanford/Elsevier, and has been listed every year in Education Week’s annual list of most influential university-based education scholars.
His work has been funded by the federal Institute of Education Sciences, the William T. Grant Foundation, the Australian Research Council, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Spencer Foundation. Lubienski has also been invited to testify before the U.S. Congress and state legislatures, and his work has been featured in news media, including the New York Times, Washington Post, La Liberacion, Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, the Times Education Supplement, and Business Week. His 2014 book, The Public School Advantage: Why Public Schools Outperform Private Schools (with co-author Sarah Theule Lubienski, University of Chicago Press), won the PROSE Award for Education Theory from the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence. His most recent book is Comparative Perspectives on School Segregation (co-edited with Laura Perry and Emma Rowe; Routledge, 2024).
Phone: (812) 856-8389
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Diane Ravitch, author of Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools
“This important book provides clear evidence that the ‘free-market model’ of schooling does not match the hype of the privatization movement. It demonstrates that public education is a valuable and successful institution. It must be protected and strengthened, not privatized.”
David Berliner, author of Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America’s Schools
“The Public School Advantage is a complete and thorough analysis of America’s many different kinds of schools—secular, charter, and public—and should end the arguments about which kind is better. Chris and Sarah Lubienski provide both the data and the clear explanations needed to understand the many false claims made about the superiority of schools that are not public. The result is a ringing endorsement of public school achievement.”
William F. Tate, past president of the American Educational Research Assocation
“In The Public School Advantage, Christopher and Sarah Lubienski present studies that challenge assumptions of the market-based argument for education and provide a cogent analytical comparison that evaluates public versus private elementary school performance. While questions remain, they provide an important contribution to a timely topic. This book provides empirically based insight about the school choice debate and is worthy of our attention.” "
Papers by Christopher Lubienski