As a professor of research methods and statistics in the School of Education, Prof. Jennifer L. Steele teaches science-based decision making to aspiring policymakers. Her research examines the effects of educational opportunities on life outcomes, with studies that have spanned dual-language immersion education, teacher effectiveness, economic returns to degrees, pathways to the labor market in the U.S. and Europe, and the implications of Artificial Intelligence for teaching and learning.
She has worked as a policy researcher at the RAND Corporation and as a K-12 teacher and has served as a François Chevalier Fellow at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study. Her public writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Hill, Fast Company, The Hechinger Report, Education Week, and Salon, and she has served as a television commentator for NBC, CBS, and CGTN, among others.
