Wheelock Educational Policy Center
The Teacher Workforce and the Impact of COVID-19
As it started to become clear that the COVID-19 pandemic would have an impact across multiple schools years, concerns regarding what some called a “mass exodus” of teachers began to rise. Despite these fears, a recent report by Olivia Chi and Andrew Bacher-Hicks that explores the impact of COVID-19 on the teacher workforce of Massachusetts […]
Improving Policies That Support Teachers
Olivia Chi is an assistant professor of educational leadership & policy studies at BU Wheelock. Her research uses quantitative methods to study the economics of education, with a focus on teacher labor markets, measures of teacher quality, and policies that reduce educational inequality. Chi is affiliated faculty with the Wheelock Educational Policy Center.
A Hub For Policymakers
When Dean David J. Chard considered the full impact that the new BU Wheelock could make after the 2018 merger of Wheelock and BU, “it became clear that we needed to think beyond the local, beyond the preparation of teachers and counselors, and to the policies and system changes that impact public schools more broadly […]
Teacher Diversity Increased in Massachusetts during COVID-19 Pandemic
New research from Boston University’s Wheelock Education Policy Center (WEPC) finds increases in the racial and ethnic diversity of teachers hired for the 2020–2021 Massachusetts school year. This was particularly true in schools serving the state’s highest concentrations of Black and Latinx students, where roughly 41% of newly hired teachers were people of color. These […]
How Policy Impacts Student Outcomes
Joshua Goodman is an associate professor of education and economics at BU Wheelock, where he works as an applied microeconomist on labor economics and education policy. Goodman’s work has been published in peer-reviewed outlets such as the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Applied Economics, and the Journal of Labor Economics. It has been cited in multiple […]