Education Week has announced the annual 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, which highlights scholars who made significant contributions to educational practice and policy in the past year.
Three Ford School faculty members have been ranked among the top 200 education scholars:
- Associate Professor Sarah Cohodes
- Brian Jacob, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy, EPI co-founder, and Youth Policy Lab co-founder and co-director. Jacob is also a professor at the Marsal Family School of Education.
- Christina Weiland, Karl and Martha Kohn Professor of Social Policy and faculty co-director of the Education Policy Initiative (EPI). She also serves as a professor at the Marsal Family School of Education.
In addition, University of Michigan scholars Deborah Ball and Nell Duke were also recognized in the rankings.
The RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings assess university-based scholars who specialize in educational research. Each scholar's influence is determined by a composite score derived from eight metrics:
- Google Scholar score
- Number of books authored, co-authored, or edited
- Highest-ranked book on Amazon
- Frequency of mentions or quotes in Education Week, the Chronicle of Higher Education, or Inside Higher Education during 2024
- Online references, mentions, or quotes from the previous year
- Mentions in U.S. newspapers
- Appearances of the scholar’s texts on syllabi
- Mentions in the Congressional Record
The rankings are the work of Rick Hess, creator of the "Rick Hess Straight Up" blog on EdWeek and director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
