Martin West

Henry Bloomberg Professor of Education Martin West DEGREE: Ph.D., Harvard University, (2006) EMAIL: martin_west@gse.harvard.edu PHONE: 617.496.4803 VITAE/CV: Martin West.pdf OFFICE: Gutman 454 FACULTY ASSISTANT: Tilman Freitag Profile Martin West is professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also deputy director of the Harvard Kennedy School's Program on Education Policy and Governance and executive editor of Education Next, a journal of opinion and research on education policy. West studies the politics of K-12 education in the United States and how education policies affect student learning and non-cognitive development. His current projects include studies of public opinion on education policy, the effects of charter school attendance and on cognitive and non-cognitive skills, data use in schools, and the influence of relative pay on teacher quality. In 2014-15, West worked as senior education policy advisor to the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. He previously taught at Brown University and was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he is now a nonresident senior fellow. Click here to see a full list of Martin West's courses.