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Marcus A. Winters is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and an assistant professor at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs. He conducts research and writes extensively on education policy, including topics such as school choice, high school graduation rates, accountability, and special education.
Winters has performed several studies on a variety of education policy issues including high-stakes testing, performance-pay for teachers, and the effects of vouchers on the public school system. His research has been published in the journals Education Finance and Policy, Economics of Education Review, Teachers College Record, and Education Next. His op-ed articles have appeared in numerous newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and USA Today, and he is often quoted on education issues. Winters previously worked as the senior research associate with Jay P. Greene at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Winters received his B.A. in political science from Ohio University in 2002, a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Arkansas in 2008.
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Articles/Op-eds
- Rewarding Great Teachers Just Makes Good Sense, Washington Examiner, 01-31-12
- Face It, Teacher Quality Matters, New York Daily News, 01-16-12
- Why 2011 is the Year of the School Voucher, Washington Examiner, 11-17-11
- Just Rewards For Teachers, Los Angeles Times, 10-03-11
- The Promise of Special Education Vouchers, National Affairs, 09-21-11
- Teacher Competence Counts More Than Credentials, Washington Examiner, 09-15-11
- Testing Students to Grade Teachers, New York Times Room for Debate, 05-30-11
- Worst System Ever, New York Post, 02-25-11
- Democracy Prep's Fate Proves That Teachers Unions Care Only About Job Protection, New York Daily News, 11-18-10
- An Outsider Perspective Isn't Bad, New York Times Room for Debate, 11-11-10
- A Teacher Data Compromise: Only Release Scores For Those At The Very Top And Bottom, New York Daily News, 10-28-10
- School Vouchers Make a Great Recession-era Program, Washington Examiner, 09-08-10
- Imperfect, but Useful, New York Times Room for Debate, 09-07-10
- Vouchers Work In Fla., and They'll Work Here, The Star-Ledger, 06-13-10
- Race to the Top Pushing Incentives For Reform, Washington Examiner, 06-02-10
- For Minorities, a Charter-School Boost, New York Post, 04-27-10
- Despite What You've Read, Paying Kids To Excel In School Does Work, New York Daily News, 04-15-10
- Public Schools Should Experiment Like Charter Schools, Washington Examiner, 04-07-10
- Charter Schools Lose in L.A., National Review Online, 03-02-10
- City Charter Schools Aren't Just Better - They Cost Less, New York Daily News, 03-01-10
- More Articles >>
Books
Research
- Measuring Teacher Effectiveness: Credentials Unrelated to Student Achievement Issue Brief 10, September 2011
- The Numbers Don't Lie: Why New York City School Closings are Justified Issue Brief 8, December 2010
- New Jersey Teacher Salaries Are Comparable to Professional Pay in Private Sector Issue Brief 5, July 2010
- Black and Hispanic Charter Students More Likely To Gain Admission To Selective NYC High Schools Issue Brief 4, April 2010
- Everyone Wins: How Charter Schools Benefit All New York City Public School Students Civic Report 60, October 2009
- How Special Ed Vouchers Keep Kids From Being Mislabeled as Disabled Civic Report 58, August 2009
- The NYC Teacher Pay-for-Performance Program: Early Evidence from a Randomized Trial Civic Report 56, April 2009
- Grading New York: An Evaluation of New York City's Progress Reports Program Civic Report 55, October 2008
- Building on the Basics: The Impact of High-Stakes Testing on Student Proficiency in Low- Stakes Subjects Civic Report 54, July 2008
- The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence From Florida's McKay Scholarship Programs Civic Report 52, April 2008
- How Much Are Public School Teachers Paid? Civic Report 50, January 2007
- Getting Farther Ahead by Staying Behind: A Second-Year Evaluation of Florida's Policy to end Social Promotion Civic Report 49, September 2006
- Leaving Boys Behind: Public High School Graduation Rates Civic Report 48, April 2006
- An Evaluation of the Effect of D.C.'s Voucher Program on Public School Achievement and Racial Integration After One Year Education Working Paper 10, January 2006
- Helping Kids, Saving Money: How to Reform New York's Special Education System ECNY Special Report, August 31, 2005
- The Effect of Residential School Choice on Public High School Graduation Rates Education Working Paper 9, April 2005
- Public High School Graduation and College-Readiness Rates: 1991–2002 Education Working Paper 8, February 2005
- An Evaluation of Florida's Program to End Social Promotion Education Working Paper, December 2004
- Pushed Out or Pulled Up? Exit Exams and Dropout Rates in Public High Schools Education Working Paper 5, May 2004
- When Schools Compete: The Effects of Vouchers on Florida Public School Achievement Education Working Paper 2, August 2003
- More Research >>
City Journal articles - How’s My Teaching?, 20 January 2012
- The Year of the Voucher, Autumn 2011
- Immune to Reform, 10 June 2011
- Respecting Teachers in the Sunshine State, 27 March 2011
- The Life-Changing Lottery, Summer 2010
- Grading Teachers in Los Angeles, 26 August 2010
- The Optimist, 4 June 2010
- Experience Doesn’t Teach, 27 April 2010
- How Not to Lay Off Teachers, 2 April 2010
- How New York Could Lose by Winning, 5 March 2010
- No State Left Behind, Winter 2010
- Stonewalling Charters, 8 January 2010
- Teachers’ Unions vs. Progress—Again, 14 December 2009
- How Efficient Are New York’s School Districts?, 1 October 2009
- Charters’ Promise, 28 September 2009
- Compstat for Teachers, 14 July 2009
- KIPP vs. the Teachers’ Unions, 16 April 2009
- Money for Nothing, 4 March 2009
- The New Number Crunchers, Winter 2009
- Stemming the Tide, 16 January 2009
- More City Journal Articles >>
Podcasts
Testimony
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