John E. Chubb
Distinguished Visiting Fellow

Expertise: Education policy, school choice, student achievement

John E. Chubb is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education.

Chubb is a founding partner, executive vice president, and chief education officer of Edison Schools, a private sector organization aimed at creating innovative public schools. He is responsible for oversight in the areas of curriculum, instruction, and assessment.

Since 1984, Chubb has been a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he has authored numerous studies on school choice and student achievement.

Chubb is the author of several books, including Within Our Reach: How America Can Educate Every Child, an assessment by the Koret Task Force, and A Lesson in School Reform from Great Britain and Politics, Markets, and America's Schools, both authored with Hoover Institution senior fellow and fellow Koret Task Force member Terry M. Moe. Politics, Markets, and America's Schools is an analysis of 500 public and private high schools based on data gathered from more than 20,000 students, teachers, and principals. It argues for the introduction of free market principals to the American education system.

Articles written by Chubb have appeared in the Brookings Review, American Political Science Review, Public Interest, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Time magazine, and other publications.

Chubb coedited Can the Government Govern? with Hoover Institution distinguished visiting fellow and fellow Koret Task Force member Paul E. Peterson.

Chubb has taught at Stanford University and served as an adviser, consultant, and speaker for the White House and for many state governments, public and private school systems, and nonprofit organizations.