Morgan Polikoff is a professor of education at USC Rossier and co-faculty director of the USC EdPolicy Hub. Dr. Polikoff uses quantitative and mixed methods to study the design, implementation, and effects of curriculum, standards, assessment, and accountability policies. In 2021 he published his first book, Beyond Standards: The Fragmentation of Education Governance and the Promise of Curriculum Reform (Harvard Education Press). Recent work has investigated the adoption and use of core and supplemental curriculum materials to align with state standards and the use of surveys to explore voters' education policy preferences. Ongoing work examines the implementation of new, technology-enhanced mathematics curriculum and interrogates the effects of COVID-19 on students' attendance, engagement, and other outcomes. He is editor of the EdPolicy Hub Substack, associate editor of the AEFP Live Handbook of Education Policy Research, and on the editorial boards for Educational Researcher and AERA Open. He publishes widely in peer-reviewed journals and for nonacademic audiences, and he has received (as PI or co-PI) more than $20 million in grants from federal and foundation sources. Dr. Polikoff received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education in 2010 with a focus on Education Policy and his Bachelors in Mathematics (minor in Secondary Education) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006.
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University of Southern California