L-to-r: David Chard, Anthony Abraham Jack, Marcus Winters, and Joshua Goodman

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Four Faculty Rated Top Educational Policy Influencers

BU Wheelock faculty members Joshua Goodman, Anthony Abraham Jack, Marcus Winters, and David Chard were named among the top 200 most influential scholars in educational policy and practice in the 2026 Edu-Scholar Public Influence rankings.

The rankings are released annually by Rick Hess, a noted scholar, director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of Education Week’s Rick Hess Straight Up.

Scholars are ranked based on calculations across eight categories: Google Scholar score, book points, most recent Amazon book ranking, education press mentions, web mentions, newspaper mentions, syllabus points, and congressional record mentions.

“This recognition underscores the vital role that university-based scholars play in shaping education policy and practice,” says Dean Penny Bishop. “We are proud to see members of our academic community contributing so powerfully to conversations that matter at both the national and global levels.”

Goodman, Jack, and Chard were ranked in the 2025 list. This year, Goodman, an associate professor of education and economics who is also a faculty affiliate of the Wheelock Educational Policy Center (WEPC), ranked 96. Jack, an associate professor of higher education leadership and faculty director of the Newbury Center, ranked 159. Chard, a former BU Wheelock dean and professor of education who retired in 2025, ranked 115.

WEPC faculty director Winters, professor and chair of the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program, entered the list this year with a ranking of 178.