Tom Loveless

Tom Loveless is an education researcher and former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. From 2000-2017, he authored The Brown Center Report on American Education, an annual report analyzing important trends in education. Loveless has published widely in scholarly journals and appeared in popular media to discuss school reform, student achievement, and other education topics.

Loveless holds a Ph.D. in education from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in special education from California State University, Sacramento, and an A.B. in English from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1979-1988, Loveless was a classroom teacher in the San Juan Unified School District, near his hometown of Sacramento, California. From 1992-1999, Loveless served as assistant and associate professors of public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He joined Brookings in 1999, serving as a senior fellow in Governance Studies, 1999-2014, and as Director of the Brown Center on Education Policy, 1999-2008.

From 2004 to 2012, Loveless represented the United States at the General Assembly of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, a sixty nation organization that governs international testing. From 2006 to 2008 he served on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel.

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