Jack Schneider named Top 100 University-Based Scholars by Public Influence Rankings List
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Jack Schneider, a Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Education Policy, has been ranked in the top 100 of university-based scholars on the 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings list.
The annual rankings list Schneider has appeared on for the seventh consecutive year was created by Rick Hess, the Director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of the “Rick Hess Straight Up” opinion blog featured on Education Week, a news organization reporting on K-12 education policy, teaching, data, and leadership.
Schneider rose to #68 this year, out of 200 total scholars ranked by a committee, who based their decisions on scholars’ scores in eight categories: Google Scholar score, book points, newspaper mentions, syllabus points, education press mentions, highest Amazon ranking, web mentions, and congressional record mentions. Qualification for ranking is also contingent on scholars’ primary focus being on educational questions and having a formal affiliation with a university.
In addition to his teaching and research, Schneider is an avid writer as he recently released his second book, “The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual”, a publication illuminating the restrictions culture wars place on topics that are permitted to be taught in schools. He has also written for several newspapers, such as the Boston Globe, the New York Times, and the Washington Post on standardized testing, the state of public schools, and educational inequality. Schneider can also be heard on the “Have You Heard” podcast he co-hosts with journalist Jennifer Berkshire, co-author of his second book.