{"id":50315,"date":"2020-07-20T12:12:46","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=50315"},"modified":"2025-05-04T21:36:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T01:36:58","slug":"olivia-chi","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/profile\/olivia-chi\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Chi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Olivia Chi is an assistant professor in the Educational Leadership &amp; Policy Studies Department at Boston University Wheelock College of Education &amp; Human Development. Her research uses quantitative methods to study the economics of education, with a focus on teacher labor markets and measures of teacher quality. She is affiliated faculty with the Wheelock Educational Policy Center (WEPC).<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Chi&#8217;s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as the <em>Journal of Policy Analysis and Management<\/em>, <em>Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis<\/em>, <em>Education Finance and Policy<\/em>, and <em>Educational Researcher<\/em>. Previously, she taught elementary grades in New Haven, Connecticut.<\/p>\n<h3>Recent News<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/scholarly-accomplishments-may-2025\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments May 2025<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/bu-wheelock-scholarly-accomplishments-march-2025\/\">Scholarly Accomplishments March 2025<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2025\/how-strong-school-leaders-drive-student-success\/\">How Strong School Leaders Drive Student Success<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2022\/the-teacher-workforce-and-the-impact-of-covid-19-a-qa-with-dr-olivia-chi\/\">The Teacher Workforce and the Impact of COVID-19<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2022\/faculty-research-spotlight-dr-olivia-chi\/\">Improving Policies That Support Teachers<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2021\/teacher-diversity-increased-in-massachusetts-during-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Teacher Diversity Increased in Massachusetts during COVID-19 Pandemic<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2020\/six-new-faculty-reflect-on-their-first-month-at-bu-wheelock\/\">BU Wheelock Welcomes Six New Faculty<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"profile-section-label\">In the Media<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"display-posts-listing\"><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/01\/14\/business\/teacher-salaries-pay-k-12-jobs\/\">&#8216;The Pipelines Are Drying Up&#8217;: Why Teacher Salaries Are Catastrophic for the Profession<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2024\/02\/07\/metro\/massachusetts-teacher-diversity\/\">Mass. Districts Boosted Teacher Diversity over the Last Decade, but the Diversity of the Student Population Grew Faster<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/commonwealthbeacon.org\/education\/study-says-state-faces-growing-teacher-diversity-challenge-if-action-isnt-taken\/\">Study Says State Faces Growing Teacher Diversity Challenge If Action Isn\u2019t Taken<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/in-the-media\/emergency-hired-teachers-do-just-as-well-as-those-who-go-through-normal-training\/\">Emergency-Hired Teachers Do Just as Well as Those Who Go through Normal Training<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/buexperts.medium.com\/addressing-teacher-burnout-and-turnover-in-a-post-pandemic-world-bc710a11bb4\">Addressing Teacher Burnout and Turnover in a Post-Pandemic World<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/local\/burnout-tenth-degree-schools-grapple-with-teacher-shortage\/ARZFRQ3KYVD4ZGS3PR7YGQ2WF4\/\">&#8216;Burnout to the Tenth Degree\u2019: Schools Grapple with Teacher Shortages<\/a><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2022\/04\/01\/massachusetts-teacher-turnover-coronavirus\">Mass. Teachers Increasingly Called It Quits as Pandemic Wore On, Study Shows<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":16970,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/50315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16970"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/50315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75976,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/50315\/revisions\/75976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/wheelock\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}