Jay P. Greene

Jay P. Greene is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute
and endowed chair and head of the Department of Education
Reform at the University of Arkansas. Greene conducts
research and writes about education policy, including
topics such as school choice, high school graduation rates,
accountability, and special education.

His research was cited four times in the Supreme Court's
opinions in the landmark Zelman v. Simmons-Harris case on
school vouchers. His articles have appeared in policy
journals, such as The Public Interest, City Journal, and
Education Next, in academic journals, such as The
Georgetown Public Policy Review, Education and Urban
Society, and The British Journal of Political Science, as
well as in major newspapers, such as the Wall Street
Journal and the Washington Post.

Greene has been a professor of government at the University
of Texas at Austin and the University of Houston. He
received his B.A. in history from Tufts University in 1988
and his Ph.D. from the Government Department at Harvard
University in 1995. He lives with his wife and three
children in Fayetteville, AR.