Authors

Nora Gordon

Professor

Georgetown University

NORA GORDON is a Professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy. She is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Non-Resident Fellow of the Urban Institute, and a member of the FutureEd Advisory Board. She is an Associate Editor of Education Finance and Policy and the Journal of Human Resources. Dr. Gordon is the co-author of Common-Sense Evidence: The Education Leader’s Guide to Using Data and Research (Harvard Education Press, 2020). She studies American education policy, with an emphasis on equity, the federal role in elementary and secondary education, and the use of evidence in policy and practice. Dr. Gordon has testified before Senate and House committees on implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act. She has served on the Institute of Education Sciences Expert Panel on the Study of the Title I Formula and DC’s state Title I Committee of Practitioners, and currently serves on the Professional Advisory Board of the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

Publications

Addressing Inequities in the US K-12 Education System

Despite decades of federal and state policy reforms and major philanthropic investments, there are still glaring deficiencies and inequities across the US K-12 education system. In “Addressing Inequities in the US K-12 Education System,” economists Nora Gordon of Georgetown University and Sarah Reber of University of California, Los Angeles argue that reducing inequities in American ...