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Prof. Jonathan Collins
The Politics and Education Program WELCOMES Prof. Jonathan Collins!
Students, professors, and staff in the Politics & Education program are happy to welcome our new faculty member. Prof. Jonathan Collins will join us beginning Spring 2024 semester. He will teach EDPP 4199, Democracy and Education, and EDPP 5042, Urban Politics and Education. We are looking forward to him joining our community!
Students, professors, and staff in the Politics & Education program are happy to welcome our new faculty member. Prof. Jonathan Collins will join us beginning Spring 2024 semester. He will teach EDPP 4199, Democracy and Education, and EDPP 5042, Urban Politics and Education. We are looking forward his joining our community!
Jonathan Collins, Assistant Professor of Politics and Education assumes his position after several years at Brown University. A visiting fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2021, Collins studies local school boards; African American education; and more.
In addition to his service at Brown, Collins has reviewed several journals and written op-eds for the Washington Post, the Brookings Institute and Education Week. His ongoing grant from the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences supports the Connecting Classrooms to Congress project, an initiative to develop and test a social studies curriculum that enables high school students to examine a pressing contemporary issue through a bipartisan lens. Among his numerous publications, Collins’ forthcoming titles include works on how school districts can operate more democratically as well as lessons from the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Study with world-renowned faculty shaping critical discussions of education policy and governance throughout the United States and the world.
EDPP 4199 with Prof. Jonathan Collins
EDPP 4199, Democracy and Education
EDPP 5500 with Prof. Ansley Erickson
EDPP 5500, Local Struggle: Educational Activism in NYC since 1930s
Doctoral Alumni Panel 2023
Welcome to the Politics & Education program
The Politics and Education program prepares students for careers as education policy leaders at the local, state and national levels, or to pursue advanced work in doctoral programs in education policy, political science, or public policy. Graduates of this program secure positions as policy advisors and researchers for government agencies, foundations and various private agencies committed to looking at and developing policies for the field of education.
Schools represent a powerful instrument for shaping the development of future generations of citizens and workers as well as an important source of jobs and investment in many communities. Coursework focuses on how societies handle conflicting visions of what schools should and should not be doing, and what specific changes in political and governance processes might facilitate better decision-making and policy implementation.
Politics and Education Virtual Information Session
Premiered on November 9, 2023. If you would like to get the transcript of the POLC open house webinar 2023, please contact David Estrella at epsaadmission@tc.columbia.edu at Admissions.
Choose Your Degree
M.A. in Politics & Education
The 33-credit M.A. program includes coursework in political science and general foundation courses in education in addition to study in qualitative and quantitative research methods. Students choose a concentration to focus on a set of political debates in education or a particular political arena in consultation with an assigned advisor.
Ed.M. in Politics & Education
The 60-credit Ed.M. program includes advanced coursework in political science and general foundation courses in education in addition to study in qualitative and quantitative research methods. Students choose a concentration to focus on a set of political debates in education or a particular political arena in consultation with an assigned advisor.
Ph.D. in Politics & Education
The 75-credit Ph.D. program prepares students to conduct original and rigorous research relating to education policy and the political conditions that facilitate its adoption, implementation, and sustainability. Graduates of this program secure positions as professors within political science, public policy, and education departments at various types of four year institutions; as researchers in think tanks and private research organizations; and in government agencies with research and policy missions.
Congratulations Graduates 2024!
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Student & Alumni Profiles
Chloe is a Politics and Education Ph.D. student, Columbia Law School Center for Public Research and Leadership Project Associate, and former Teacher’s College Arthur Zankel REACH Fellow with a passion for educational equity research, policy, and teaching.
Chloe received her Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of Idaho in 2018 and Master’s Degree at Teachers College in 2022. Following her studies in Idaho, she accepted a position as the Education Fellow at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta Georgia. There, Chloe pursued research concerning the contemporary history of public policy and educational equity. While publishing content on notable historical figures and persistent inequity rooted in historic systems, Chloe engages with historical research and the interaction of contemporary American history and political identity.
Chloe’s professional aspiration is to connect public education with evidence-based research that defines historic systemic inequity in order to understand modern political systems, movements, and identity.
Chloe is a Politics and Education Ph.D. student, Columbia Law School Center for Public Research and Leadership Project Associate, and former Teacher’s College Arthur Zankel REACH Fellow with a passion for educational equity research, policy, and teaching.
Chloe received her Bachelor’s Degree in History from the University of Idaho in 2018 and Master’s Degree at Teachers College in 2022. Following her studies in Idaho, she accepted a position as the Education Fellow at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta Georgia. There, Chloe pursued research concerning the contemporary history of public policy and educational equity. While publishing content on notable historical figures and persistent inequity rooted in historic systems, Chloe engages with historical research and the interaction of contemporary American history and political identity.
Chloe’s professional aspiration is to connect public education with evidence-based research that defines historic systemic inequity in order to understand modern political systems, movements, and identity.
Previously working with her Diné community, state congressional representative, and in non-profit environmental organizations, Kianna seeks to find an understanding of Native identity within US political spheres. She has explored this through psychological research at the University of Michigan, examining the political discrepancies between tribal communities and the US government. Moreover, she uses her social media platform to teach about Indigenous issues and amplify pressing issues facing communities around the world.
Motivated by the matriarchs within her family, she hopes to improve education policy for Native American students and preserve Diné teachings by integrating them into her graduate school education, future research, and professional career in politics and teaching. In Fall 2023, Kianna will also be a research assistant for the Teachers College Center for Educational Equity and serve as an Arthur Zankel "Youth Historians in Harlem" Fellow.
Previously working with her Diné community, state congressional representative, and in non-profit environmental organizations, Kianna seeks to find an understanding of Native identity within US political spheres. She has explored this through psychological research at the University of Michigan, examining the political discrepancies between tribal communities and the US government. Moreover, she uses her social media platform to teach about Indigenous issues and amplify pressing issues facing communities around the world.
Motivated by the matriarchs within her family, she hopes to improve education policy for Native American students and preserve Diné teachings by integrating them into her graduate school education, future research, and professional career in politics and teaching. In Fall 2023, Kianna will also be a research assistant for the Teachers College Center for Educational Equity and serve as an Arthur Zankel "Youth Historians in Harlem" Fellow.
Research Associate on the State Fiscal Policy Team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), Washington D.C.
Iris came to Teacher College after completing her undergraduate degree in Political Science with minors in Asian American Studies and Education Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. The Politics and Education program offered opportunities for Iris to gain quantitative analysis skills and delve deeper into the issues of school choice and privatization.
Iris enjoyed connecting with the broader TC community. She was a Community Assistant with the Office of Residential Services and served in TC’s Student Senate for 1.5 years, first as a Student Resources Senator, then going on to chair the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and represented student interests at President Bailey’s Committee for Community & Diversity during the fall of 2021. Iris was awarded the 2022 Shirley Chisholm Trailblazer Award from the Provost.
Partway through the Politics and Education program, Iris began working as a Research Associate on the State Fiscal Policy Team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). CBPP advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone — regardless of income, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ZIP code, immigration status, or disability status — has the resources they need to thrive. She has written on state child tax credits, earned income tax credits, K-12 unfinished learning, immigrant-inclusive policies, grocery sales taxes, and spending State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds from the American Rescue Plan of 2021.
Research Associate on the State Fiscal Policy Team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), Washington D.C.
Iris came to Teacher College after completing her undergraduate degree in Political Science with minors in Asian American Studies and Education Studies at the University of California Los Angeles. The Politics and Education program offered opportunities for Iris to gain quantitative analysis skills and delve deeper into the issues of school choice and privatization.
Iris enjoyed connecting with the broader TC community. She was a Community Assistant with the Office of Residential Services and served in TC’s Student Senate for 1.5 years, first as a Student Resources Senator, then going on to chair the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and represented student interests at President Bailey’s Committee for Community & Diversity during the fall of 2021. Iris was awarded the 2022 Shirley Chisholm Trailblazer Award from the Provost.
Partway through the Politics and Education program, Iris began working as a Research Associate on the State Fiscal Policy Team at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP). CBPP advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone — regardless of income, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, ZIP code, immigration status, or disability status — has the resources they need to thrive. She has written on state child tax credits, earned income tax credits, K-12 unfinished learning, immigrant-inclusive policies, grocery sales taxes, and spending State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds from the American Rescue Plan of 2021.
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- Master of Arts
- Master of Education
- Doctor of Philosophy