BU Wheelock Faculty Named Top Educational Policy Influencers
Joshua Goodman (from left), Anthony Abraham Jack, and David Chard. Photos by Joanne Smith (Chard, Goodman) and Chris D’Amore
BU Wheelock Faculty Named Top Educational Policy Influencers
Rankings based on criteria evaluating scholars’ influence on academic scholarship and public debate
David Chard, Joshua Goodman, and Anthony Abraham Jack were recently named among the top 200 most influential university-based scholars in educational policy and practice.
Chard, Goodman, and Jack were recognized in the 2025 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, which are released annually on the Education Week blog, Rick Hess Straight Up. Hess is a noted scholar and director of educational policy at the American Enterprise Institute. He and his team calculate the rankings based on a set of criteria that evaluate scholars’ influence on academic scholarship and public debate.
Chard, a professor of special education who was dean of Wheelock College of Education & Human Development until June 2024, was ranked at 103.
Goodman, an associate professor of education and of economics who is also a faculty affiliate of the Wheelock Educational Policy Center, was ranked at 108.
Jack, who holds appointments as associate professor of higher education leadership and as faculty director of the Newbury Center, which supports first-generation students at BU, was ranked at 150. He is also the author
of the book Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality & Students Pay the Price (Princeton University Press, 2024).
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