Jason A. Grissom is Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy and Education at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College and faculty director of the Tennessee Education Research Alliance. In this latter role, he oversees TERA’s research agenda; helps set its strategic priorities; and collaborates with the Tennessee Department of Education, researchers at Vanderbilt and other universities, and other stakeholders to ensure that Tennessee has the research it needs for effective K-12 education policy decisions. Grissom’s primary areas of research are school leadership and educator mobility. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed articles on such topics as measuring principal effectiveness, principal preparation, the distribution of leadership quality, and principal diversity. He has also authored numerous studies of turnover among teachers, principals, and superintendents. Dr. Grissom is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and serves as President-Elect of the Association for Education Finance and Policy. He holds a PhD in Political Economics and MA in Education from Stanford University.
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