Nora Gordon

Nora Gordon is an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. She serves on the Title I Committee of Practitioners for the Office of the State Superintendent of Education, the District of Columbia’s state education agency. Her research on the economics of education includes studies of the current and historical federal role in elementary and secondary education, state school finance policies, school desegregation and school district consolidation. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation for Education Research, the American Educational Research Association, and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. She holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University.