Shaun M. Dougherty

Shaun M. Dougherty is professor of education and policy in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College and a senior advisor to the U.S. Department of Education. He is also the director of the Catholic Education Research Initiative at Boston College and a Strategic Data Project faculty advisor through the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University. He was previously an associate professor of public policy and education in Peabody College at Vanderbilt University; an assistant professor of education and public policy in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut; and a faculty fellow with Georgia Policy Labs at Georgia State University. His research and teaching interests focus on education policy analysis, causal program evaluation and cost analysis, and the economics of education, with an emphasis on career and technical education, educational accountability policies, and the application of regression discontinuity research designs. Dougherty received his EdD in quantitative policy analysis of education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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