Daniel Silver

Dan Silver is a research scientist at the USC Center for Applied Research in Education at the Dornsife Center for Economic and Social Research. He has contributed to national survey research about the educational experiences of teachers, school leaders, and families during the COVID-19 pandemic and currently co-writes the Evidence Project biweekly newsletter. Dan has also designed and carried out mixed-methods studies to analyze teachers’ curriculum use. His academic work has been published in education journals such as Review of Educational Research, AERA Open, and Educational Researcher, and his policy- and practitioner-oriented writing has appeared in outlets including the Brookings Brown Center Blog, The 74 Million, and Time. He completed his PhD in Urban Education Policy in 2022 at the USC Rossier School of Education. He also earned his MS in Applied Economics and Econometrics from USC in 2021.