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Overview

Jason A. Grissom is affiliated with Vanderbilt University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Social Sciences with a particular focus on Education, as well as related domains such as Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science, Transportation, and Communication.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • School Choice and Performance
  • Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
  • Parental Involvement in Education
  • Educational Assessment and Improvement
  • Education Systems and Policy
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Critical Race Theory in Education

Grissom has published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Educational Administration Quarterly
  • American Educational Research Journal
  • AERA Open
  • Peabody Journal of Education
  • Proceedings of the 2020 AERA Annual Meeting

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Leading Schools and Districts in Times of Crisis, 2021, Educational Researcher
  • Teacher-Child Racial/Ethnic Match and Parental Engagement With Head Start, 2020, American Educational Research Journal
  • School Principal Race, Teacher Racial Diversity, and Student Achievement, 2021, The Journal of Human Resources
  • Do Students in Gifted Programs Perform Better? Linking Gifted Program Participation to Achievement and Nonachievement Outcomes, 2021, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
  • Potential Race and Gender Biases in High-Stakes Teacher Observations, 2021, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Grissom has worked frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Francisco Arturo Santelli
  • Brendan Bartanen
  • Susan Patrick
  • Jennifer L. Nelson
  • Lara Condon

Best Publications

  • Teacher Collaboration in Instructional Teams and Student Achievement.

    Matthew Ronfeldt;Susanna Owens Farmer;Kiel McQueen;Jason A. Grissom

  • Triangulating Principal Effectiveness How Perspectives of Parents, Teachers, and Assistant Principals Identify the Central Importance of Managerial Skills

    Jason A. Grissom;Susanna Loeb

  • Effective Instructional Time Use for School Leaders: Longitudinal Evidence From Observations of Principals

    Jason A. Grissom;Susanna Loeb;Benjamin K. Master

  • Discretion and Disproportionality: Explaining the Underrepresentation of High-Achieving Students of Color in Gifted Programs

    Jason A. Grissom;Christopher Redding

  • Can Good Principals Keep Teachers in Disadvantaged Schools? Linking Principal Effectiveness to Teacher Satisfaction and Turnover in Hard-to-Staff Environments:

    Jason A. Grissom

  • How Principals Affect Students and Schools: A Systematic Synthesis of Two Decades of Research

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  • Using Student Test Scores to Measure Principal Performance

    Jason A. Grissom;Demetra Kalogrides;Susanna Loeb

  • Does My Boss's Gender Matter? Explaining Job Satisfaction and Employee Turnover in the Public Sector

    Jason A. Grissom;Jill Nicholson-Crotty;Lael Keiser

  • Investing in Administrator Efficacy: An Examination of Professional Development as a Tool for Enhancing Principal Effectiveness.

    Jason A. Grissom;James R. Harrington

  • Principal time management skills: Explaining patterns in principals’ time use, job stress, and perceived effectiveness

    Jason A. Grissom;Susanna Loeb;Hajime Mitani

  • Make Room Value Added Principals’ Human Capital Decisions and the Emergence of Teacher Observation Data

    Ellen Goldring;Jason A. Grissom;Mollie Rubin;Christine M. Neumerski

  • Understanding Employee Turnover in the Public Sector: Insights from Research on Teacher Mobility

    Jason A. Grissom;Samantha L. Viano;Jennifer L. Selin

  • The “Representative Bureaucracy” in Education: Educator Workforce Diversity, Policy Outputs, and Outcomes for Disadvantaged Students

    Jason A. Grissom;Emily C. Kern;Luis A. Rodriguez

  • A supervisor like me: Race, representation, and the satisfaction and turnover decisions of public sector employees

    Jason A. Grissom;Lael R. Keiser

  • Why Superintendents Turn Over

    Jason A. Grissom;Stephanie Andersen

  • Race, Region, and Representative Bureaucracy

    Jason A. Grissom;Jill Nicholson-Crotty;Sean Nicholson-Crotty

  • Do Strong Unions Shape District Policies? Collective Bargaining, Teacher Contract Restrictiveness, and the Political Power of Teachers' Unions.

    Katharine O. Strunk;Jason A. Grissom

  • Strategic Retention: Principal Effectiveness and Teacher Turnover in Multiple-Measure Teacher Evaluation Systems:

    Jason A. Grissom;Brendan Bartanen

  • Estimating the Effects of No Child Left Behind on Teachers' Work Environments and Job Attitudes.

    Jason A. Grissom;Sean Nicholson-Crotty;James R. Harrington

  • Teacher and Principal Diversity and the Representation of Students of Color in Gifted Programs: Evidence from National Data

    Jason A. Grissom;Luis A. Rodriguez;Emily C. Kern

  • Triangulating Principal Effectiveness: How Perspectives of Parents, Teachers, and Assistant Principals Identify the Central Importance of Managerial Skills. Working Paper 35.

    Jason A. Grissom;Susanna Loeb

Frequent Co-Authors

Susanna Loeb
Susanna Loeb Brown University
Ellen Goldring
Ellen Goldring Vanderbilt University
Joseph Murphy
Joseph Murphy Vanderbilt University
Andrew C. Porter
Andrew C. Porter University of Pennsylvania
Melissa A. Clark
Melissa A. Clark Brown University

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