Walker A. Swain

Walker A. Swain is a principal researcher at the Learning Policy Institute (LPI); he specializes in developing equity-oriented policy research and advising state and federal education policy. He formerly served as an American Educational Research Association/American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Fellow in the United States Senate, working on education and labor policy for Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, who was a member of the Senate Health Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Swain also was an associate professor of education and public policy at the University of Georgia, where he was honored with the Mary McCleod Bethune Educator Award for efforts to advance social justice in the classroom and beyond. He has coauthored many studies on a range of education and broader public policy issues in notable academic journals, including Educational Researcher, Sociology of Education, Economics of Education Review, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and the American Educational Research Journal. Swain received his PhD in leadership and policy studies from Vanderbilt University.

updated 2024