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Andrew Rotherham
Co-Founder and Partner, Bellwether Education
Background
Andrew J. Rotherham is a co-founder and partner at Bellwether Education, a non-profit organization working to improve educational outcomes for low-income students. Rotherham leads Bellwether’s thought leadership, idea generation, and policy analysis work. He also writes the weekly “School of Thought” column for TIME.com as well as the blog Eduwonk.com and is the co-publisher of “Education Insider” a federal policy research tool produced by Whiteboard Advisors. Rotherham previously served at The White House as Special Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy during the Clinton administration and is a former member of the Virginia Board of Education. In addition to Bellwether, Rotherham has founded or co-founded two other influential education reform organizations including Education Sector and served on the boards of several other successful education start-ups. Rotherham is the author or co-author of more than 150 published articles, book chapters, papers, and op-eds about education policy and politics and is the author or editor of four books on educational policy. He serves on advisory boards and committees for a variety of organizations including Education Pioneers, The Broad Foundation, the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research. (CALDER). Rotherham is on the board of directors for the Indianapolis Mind Trust, is Vice Chair of the Curry School of Education Foundation at the University of Virginia, and serves on the Visiting Committee for the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Publications
Andrew Rotherham
- The Lens
Mend, Don’t End, the Institution for Education Sciences
This piece originally appeared in The 74. Last week, DOGE’s “shock and awe” campaign came to education. The chaotic canceling of grants and contracts for various research activities at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), a little-known yet important agency rarely at the center of public debate, was unprecedented.
- Research Reports
Ch. 3 – A One-Day Ceasefire: What Charter School and Teachers Union Leaders Say When They Meet (HFR ’06)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2006 presents the results of a meeting between charter school leaders and teachers union leaders to discuss areas of agreement and disagreement.
- Research Reports
The Future of Charter Schools and Teachers Unions: Results of a Symposium
The National Charter School Research Project and the Progressive Policy Institute convened a meeting of local, state, and national leaders from both the charter school and teachers union communities to address ongoing battles between teachers unions and charter schools.
- Research Reports
Ch. 4 – The Pros & Cons of Charter School Closures (HFR ’05)
This chapter of Hopes, Fears, & Reality: A Balanced Look at American Charter Schools in 2005 extracts from California’s experience of the sudden closure of California Charter Academy to suggest how charter authorizers and school districts can avoid catastrophic school failure and sudden mass transfers of students.
