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Jay P. Greene is a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He was previously a distinguished professor and head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas.

Greene’s current areas of research interest include school choice and the effects of education on character formation and civic values. He is also known for his work studying culturally enriching field trips to art museums and theaters, his efforts to improve the accurate reporting of high school graduation rates, address financial incentives in special education, and the use of standardized tests to curb social promotion.

His research was cited four times in the U.S. Supreme Court's opinions in the landmark Zelman v. Simmons-Harris case on school vouchers. His research has appeared in academic journals, such as Education Finance and Policy, Economics of Education Review, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, as well as in major newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and the Washington Post. Greene is the author of Education Myths (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), Why America Needs School Choice (Encounter Broadside, 2011) and co-editor of Failure Up Close: What Happens, Why It Happens, and What We Can Learn from It (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) and Religious Liberty and Education: A Case Study of Yeshivas vs. New York (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020).

Education

• Tufts University Medford, Massachusetts

  B.A. in History, Summa Cum Laude in May, 1988, Phi Beta Kappa 1987

• Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  A.M. in Political Science in November 1991

  Ph.D. in Political Science in June 1995

Research

Greene's articles include:

• Erickson, H.H., Watson A.R., & Greene, J.P. (Forthcoming). An Experimental Evaluation of Culturally Enriching Field Trips. Journal of Human Resources.
• Greene, J. P., Cheng, A., & Kingsbury I. (2021). Are Educated People More Anti-Semitic? Tablet Magazine, March 29.
• Greene, J.P., Erickson, H.H., Watson, A.R., & Beck, M.I. (2018). The Play’s the Thing: Experimentally Examining the Social and Cognitive Effects of School Field Trips to Live Theater Performances. Educational Researcher, 47(4), 246-254.
• Greene, J.P., & Kingsbury, I. (2017). The Relationship Between Public and Private Schooling and AntiSemitism. Journal of School Choice, 11(1), 111-130.
• Greene,J. P, Hitt, C., Kraybill, A., & Bogulski, C. A. (2015). Learning from live theater. Education Next, 15(1), 54-61.
• Kisida, B., Greene, J. P., & Bowen, D. H. (2014). Creating cultural consumers: The dynamics of cultural capital acquisition, Sociology of Education, 87(4), 281-295.
• Greene, J. P., Kisida, B., & Bowen, D. H. (2014). The educational value of field trips. Education Next, 14(1), 78-86.
• Bowen, D. H., Greene, J. P., & Kisida, B. (2014). Learning to think critically: A visual art experiment. Educational Researcher, 43(1), 37-44.
• Margulis, E. H., Kisida, B., & Greene, J. P. (2013). A knowing ear: The effect of explicit information on children’s experience of a musical performance. Psychology of Music, Advance online publication. 1-10.
• Bowen, D. H., & Greene, J. P. (2012). Does athletic success come at the expense of academic success?. Journal of Research in Education, 22(2), 1-22.
• Winters, M. A., & Greene, J. P. (2012). The medium-run effects of Florida’s test-based promotion policy. Education Finance and Policy, 7(3), 305-330. Archived 2013-02-20 at the Wayback Machine
• Winters, M. A., Dixon, B. L., & Greene, J. P. (2012). Observed characteristics and teacher quality: Impacts of sample selection on a value added model. Economics of Education Review, 31(1), 19-32. Archived 2015-10-10 at the Wayback Machine
• Winters, M. A., & Greene, J. P. (2011). Public school response to special education vouchers: The impact of Florida’s McKay Scholarship Program on disability diagnosis and student achievement in public schools. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 33(2), 138-158. Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Greene, J. P. (2011). The Big Rock Candy Mountain of education. In G. Forster & C. B. Thompson (Eds.), Freedom and School Choice in American Education (pp. 1-16). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Greene, J. P., & Winters, M. A. (2011). Florida’s program to end social promotion. In D. L. Leal & C. B. Thompson (Eds.), The politics of Latino education (pp. 58-71). New York, NY: Teachers College Press. Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine
• Winters, M. A., Trivitt, J. R., & Greene, J. P. (2010). The impact of high-stakes testing on student proficiency in low-stakes subjects: Evidence from Florida’s elementary science exam. Economics of Education Review, 29(1), 138-146. Archived 2011-07-13 at the Wayback Machine

References

1. "Jay P. Greene, Ph.D. | Senior Research Fellow, Heritage Foundation". www.uaedreform.org. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
2. "Jay P. Greene, Ph.D., Joins Heritage Foundation as Senior Research Fellow in Education Policy". The Heritage Foundation. Retrieved 2021-07-27.
3. "UARK – DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REFORM". www.uaedreform.org. Archived from the original on May 7, 2008. Retrieved 2015-06-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
4. "Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: ZELMAN V. SIMMONS-HARRIS". ech.case.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
5. "EDUCATION MYTHS". www.manhattan-institute.org. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
6. Greene, Jay P. (July 19, 2011). Why America Needs School Choice. New York: Encounter Books. ISBN 9781594035944.
7. Greene, Jay P.; McShane, Michael Q., eds. (2018-01-17). Failure Up Close: What Happens, Why It Happens, and What We Can Learn from It. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1475840568.
8. BEDRICK, JASON; GREENE, JAY; LEE, MATTHEW (2020-10-08). Religious Liberty and Education. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1475854404.
9. "Are Educated People More Anti-Semitic?". Tablet Magazine. 30 March 2021.
10. Greene, Jay P.; Erickson, Heidi H.; Watson, Angela R.; Beck, Molly I. (2018-05-01). "The Play's the Thing: Experimentally Examining the Social and Cognitive Effects of School Field Trips to Live Theater Performances". Educational Researcher. 47 (4): 246–254. doi:10.3102/0013189X18761034. ISSN 0013-189X. S2CID 148910957.
11. Greene, Jay P.; Kingsbury, Ian (2017-01-02). "The Relationship Between Public and Private Schooling and Anti-Semitism". Journal of School Choice. 11 (1): 111–130. doi:10.1080/15582159.2016.1270143. ISSN 1558-2159. S2CID 152057554.
12. "Learning From Live Theater: Students realize gains from theater trips - Research". 2014-10-15. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
13. Kisida, Brian; Greene, Jay P.; Bowen, Daniel H. (October 2014). "Sign In". Sociology of Education. 87 (4): 281–295. doi:10.1177/0038040714549076. S2CID 146396668.
14. "The Educational Value of Field Trips - Education Next". 2013-09-16. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
15. Bowen, Daniel H.; Greene, Jay P.; Kisida, Brian (January 2014). "Sign In". Educational Researcher. 43 (1): 37–44. doi:10.3102/0013189X13512675. S2CID 146567624.
16. "Sign In". pom.sagepub.com. doi:10.1177/0305735613510343. S2CID 145205157. Retrieved 2015-06-23.
17. "Archived copy" (PDF). www.uaedreform.org. Archived from the original on 2015-06-23. Retrieved 2015-06-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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20. "Archived copy" (PDF). www.uark.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2015-06-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
21. Greene, Jay. https://web.archive.org/web/20110713144232/http://www.uark.edu/ua/der/People/Greene/Big_Rock_Candy_Mountain.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-13. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
22. https://web.archive.org/web/20110713143946/http://www.uark.edu/ua/der/People/Greene/Social_Promotion_PL.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-13. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
23. "Archived copy" (PDF). www.uark.edu. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-06-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

External links

• Biography and CV - Heritage Foundation
• Jay P. Greene’s Blog

• Living people
• Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
• Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni
• University of Arkansas faculty