Jay P. Greene

Jay P. Greene is a senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation. He was previously a distinguished professor and head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas.

Greene’s current areas of research interest include school choice and the effects of education on character formation and civic values. He is also known for his work studying culturally enriching field trips to art museums and theaters, his efforts to improve the accurate reporting of high school graduation rates, address financial incentives in special education, and the use of standardized tests to curb social promotion.

His research was cited four times in the U.S. Supreme Court's opinions in the landmark ''Zelman v. Simmons-Harris'' case on school vouchers. His research has appeared in academic journals, such as ''Education Finance and Policy'', ''Economics of Education Review'', and ''Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis'', as well as in major newspapers, such as the ''Wall Street Journal'', ''New York Times'', and the ''Washington Post''. Greene is the author of ''Education Myths'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), ''Why America Needs School Choice'' (Encounter Broadside, 2011) and co-editor of ''Failure Up Close: What Happens, Why It Happens, and What We Can Learn from It'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) and ''Religious Liberty and Education: A Case Study of Yeshivas vs. New York'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020). Provided by Wikipedia