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For the seventh consecutive year, Dwight W. Allen Distinguished Professor of Education Jack Schneider has been ranked in the top 100 of university-based scholars who did the most last year to shape educational practice and policy.

In the latest edition of the 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, published online by Education Next, Schneider rose seven spots from last year to No. 68. The scholars are ranked by a committee that assessed 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.

Now in its 15^th edition, the annual rankings list was created by Rick Hess, director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, and author of the opinion blog “Rick Hess Straight Up” featured in Education Week, a national news and information source covering the K-12 sector.

Schneider is director of the Center for Education Policy in the College of Education. In addition to his teaching and research, he is an avid writer and has released his second book, “The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual,” a publication co-authored with journalist Jennifer Berkshire, illuminating the restrictions culture wars place on the 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, and can also be heard on the “Have You Heard” podcast, which he co-hosts with Berkshire.