Jason A. Grissom

Jason Grissom
Jason A. Grissom
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education,
Vanderbilt University

Jason A. Grissom is an associate professor of public policy and education and (by courtesy) of political science at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College. He is also faculty director of the Tennessee Education Research Alliance. Grissom’s research uses large data sets and draws on perspectives from political science, public administration, and economics to study the governance of K–12 education, including both its leadership/management and its political dimensions. He is particularly interested in identifying the impacts of school and district leaders on teacher and student outcomes. He has ongoing research projects on principal effectiveness, principal mobility, and principal job performance measurement and evaluation, as well as on how principals make human capital or talent management decisions in their schools. Grissom is co-editor-in-chief of Educational Researcher. He received his PhD in political economics from Stanford University.

updated 2018

Contributing topics
Educational governance & policy
Educator workforce & effectiveness
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
COVID-19 Recovery
Getting Down To Facts II
Commentary by Jason A. Grissom
: The Effects of No Child Left Behind on Teachers
: Impacts of Strategic Involuntary Teacher Transfers on Equity and Teacher Productivity
Jason A. Grissom in the Media
: How Schools Can Help Children Recover from COVID Closures
: Gifted’ Black Kids Not as Likely to Get Placed in Talented Programs
: Carnegie Panel on Assessing Teaching to Improve Learning: Value-Added Methods and Applications
: Survey Finds High Superintendent Turnover in Large California Districts
: Study Calls for Major Overhaul of California Schools
Publications by Jason A. Grissom
GDTFII Brief Principals
The Development and Distribution of School Leadership in California
There is a common theme around California education, and leadership development is no exception. The state used to have nationally recognized model programs of professional development for principals and superintendents, but many were defunded and…
Using Student Test Scores to Measure Principal Performance
Using Student Test Scores to Measure Principal Performance
Expansion of the use of student test score data to measure teacher performance has fueled recent policy interest in using those data to measure the effects of school administrators as well. However, little research has considered the capacity of…