John Papay
John Papay is the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Associate Professor of Education and Economics and the Director of the Annenberg Institute. His research focuses on policies that affect teachers and their work, as well as how schools and policies perpetuate or ameliorate educational inequality. Papay conducts the majority of his research in collaborative partnerships with policymakers and practitioners. He currently leads the Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts project, a long-standing partnership with state education agencies in Massachusetts. He is a founding senior researcher of the Research Partnership for Professional Learning, which seeks to identify the features of professional learning that improve teacher development, with a specific focus on improving classroom experiences and outcomes for students from historically marginalized groups. Locally in Rhode Island, he has helped build a multi-sector partnership to bring together the Rhode Island Department of Education, local school districts and local education leaders to solve pressing educational challenges in Rhode Island. A former high school history teacher, John earned his doctorate in Quantitative Policy Analysis from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Publications
- Ann Mantil, John Papay, Ian Ferguson, Diana Quintero, Richard Murnane. Land of Opportunity?. | Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
- Preeya Pandya Mbekeani, John Papay, Ann Mantil, Richard Murnane. Understanding High Schools’ Effects on Longer-Term Outcomes. | Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
- Francisco Arturo Santelli, Brenda Santos, Kate Donohue, John Papay, Nathaniel Schwartz, Olga Pagán. Investing in Growth: A Roadmap for Advancing Teacher Professional Learning in Rhode Island. | Evidence in Action - RI
- Ann Mantil, John Papay, Richard Murnane. Introducing a High School Exit Exam in Science: Consequences in Massachusetts. | Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
- John Papay, Ann Mantil, Richard Murnane, Ian Ferguson, James LoPresti, Preeya Pandya Mbekeani, Aubrey McDonough, Emma Zorfass. The MCAS as a Graduation Requirement. | Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
- John Papay, Kate Donohue, Nathaniel Schwartz, Bila Djamaoeddin. Staffing Schools in Providence: Tracking Key Metrics. | Evidence in Action - RI
- Ann Mantil, John Papay, Ian Ferguson, Preeya Pandya Mbekeani, Richard Murnane. Rising Numbers, Unmet Needs: Immigrant Newcomers in Massachusetts High Schools. | Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
- Kate Donohue, John Papay, Nathaniel Schwartz, Bila Djamaoeddin, Kirk Murrell. Teacher Staffing in Providence Public Schools: Key Metrics and Strategic Insights. | Evidence in Action - RI
- Richard Murnane, John B. Willett, John Papay, Ann Mantil, Preeya Pandya Mbekeani, Aubrey McDonough. Building Stronger Community College Transfer Pathways. | Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
- John Papay, Ann Mantil, Richard Murnane. On the Threshold: Impacts of Barely Passing High-School Exit Exams on Post-Secondary Enrollment and Completion. | Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
- John Papay, Ann Mantil, Richard Murnane. On the Threshold: Impacts of Barely Passing High-School Exit Exams on Post-Secondary Enrollment and Completion.
- Kate Donohue, John Papay, Nathaniel Schwartz. Sustaining the Teacher Workforce: Teacher Retention in Providence. | Evidence in Action - RI
- John Papay, Ann Mantil, Richard Murnane, Alan Perez. The Impact of COVID on College-going: Equity Implications for the Classes of 2020 and 2021. | Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
- John Papay, Nathaniel Schwartz, Kate Donohue. Attracting Talent to Providence: The Challenge of Teacher Recruitment. | Evidence in Action - RI
- John Papay, Nathaniel Schwartz, Kate Donohue. Staffing Schools Before Students Arrive: Filling Teacher Vacancies in Providence. | Evidence in Action - RI
- John Papay, Ann Mantil, Richard Murnane, Lily An, Kate Donohue, Aubrey McDonough. Lifting all Boats? . | Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
- John Papay, Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Lindsay C. Page, William Marinell. The Challenge of Teacher Retention in Urban Schools: Evidence of Variation from a Cross-Site Analysis.
- Megin Charner-Laird, Monica Ng, Susan Moore Johnson, Matthew Kraft, John Papay, Stefanie Reinhorn. Gauging Goodness of Fit: Teachers’ Assessments of their Instructional Teams in High-Poverty Schools.
- John Papay, Matthew Kraft. Developing Workplaces Where Teachers Stay, Improve, and Succeed.
- John Papay, Matthew Kraft. The productivity costs of inefficient hiring practices: Evidence from late teacher hiring.
- John Papay, Richard Murnane, John B. Willett. The Impact of Test Score Labels on Human-Capital Investment Decisions. | Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
- Matthew Kraft, John Papay, Susan Moore Johnson, Megin Charmer-Laird, Monica Ng, Stefanie Reinhorn. Educating Amidst Uncertainty: The Organizational Supports Teachers Need to Serve Students in High-poverty, Urban Schools.
- John Papay, Richard Murnane, John B. Willett. Income-Based Inequality in Educational Outcomes: Learning From State Longitudinal Data Systems. | Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
- John Papay, Richard Murnane, John B. Willett. High-School Exit Examinations and the Schooling Decisions of Teenagers: Evidence From Regression-Discontinuity Approaches. | Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
- John Papay, Richard Murnane, John B. Willett. The Consequences of High School Exit Examinations for Low-Performing Urban Students: Evidence From Massachusetts. | Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
