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Articles by Mark Schneider

Mark Schneider is a nonresident senior scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a Doris Duke distinguished visiting scholar at Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy. He served as director of the Institute of Education Sciences from 2018-24 and was commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics from 2005-08.

If the Education Department Can’t Be Closed, at Least Fix It by Breaking It Up

Mark Schneider

The Future is STEM — But Without Enough Students, the U.S. Will Be Left Behind

Mark Schneider

Ed Department Official: Grades Are Up, Scores Are Down. Education ‘Runs on Lies’

Mark Schneider

Bill Doesn't Go Far Enough in Investing in STEM Education

Mark Schneider

Dadisman & Schneider: Tutoring Can Help Reverse COVID-Related Learning Loss. 6 Principles for Doing It Right

Kimberly Dadisman & Mark Schneider

Schneider & Garg: Medical Researchers Find Cures by Conducting Many Studies and Failing Fast. We Need to Do the Same for Education

Mark Schneider & Kumar Garg

Schneider: The Strange Case of ‘China’ and Its Top PISA Rankings — How Cherry-Picking Regions to Take Part Skews Its High Scores

Mark Schneider

Schneider: The New PISA Scores Tell Us Lots About the Sad State of American Education. What They Can’t Tell Us Is How to Fix It

Mark Schneider

Mark Schneider: My Response to Essay Rebuttal — I’m Concerned About the PISA Exam’s Future and the Implications of Its Sponsor’s Global Ambitions

Mark Schneider

Mark Schneider: PISA Is a Unique Resource for Testing Educational Attainment of 15-Year-Olds in 78 Countries. Adding 40 More Would Be a Mistake

Mark Schneider

Analysis: If the NCAA Basketball Tournament Was About ‘Income Mobility,’ Buffalo, Houston, UCLA & Seton Hall Would Be Leading the Final Four

Jorge Klor de Alva & Mark Schneider

An NCAA Bracket for Income Mobility: If the Tournament Were About Moving Up the Economic Ladder, These Schools Would Make the Sweet Sixteen

Jorge Klor de Alva & Mark Schneider

Analysis: If March Madness Were About Schools’ Graduates Climbing the Income Ladder, UCLA Would Be Champ

Jorge Klor de Alva & Mark Schneider