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William Schmidt

 University Distinguished Professor
  Center for the Study of Curriculum
 Ph.D., University of Chicago
 238 Erickson
 517-353-0701
William Schmidt is a University Distinguished Professor, founder and director of the Center for the Study of Curriculum, and director of the Education Policy Center. He holds faculty appointments in measurement and quantitative methods and the Department of Statistics. He is a member of the National Academy of Education, an American Educational Research Association (AERA) Fellow, director of the AERA Institute on Statistical Analysis, and a recent OECD Thomas J. Alexander Fellow for education quality and equity. He has published in numerous journals including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. His most recent books include Teacher Education Matters, Inequality for All, and the edited volume International Perspectives on Teacher Knowledge, Beliefs and Opportunities to Learn. His current writing and research focuses on issues of academic content in K-12 schooling, the effects of curriculum on academic achievement, assessment, and educational policy related to mathematics, science, and testing in general.

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Active Grants:

  • General Electric Foundation
    Common Core Implementation Research Center
  • Leona M & Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust
    Supporting Teachers' Implementation of the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics: The Navigator