Jeffrey Henig

Teachers College, Columbia University

Jeffrey R. Henig is Professor of Political Science and Education at Teachers College and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is an elected fellow of the American Educational Research Association and a member of the National Academy of Education. 

Among his books related to education politics are: Rethinking School Choice:  Limits of the Market Metaphor (Princeton, 1994); The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics and the Challenge of Urban Education (Princeton, 1999), named by the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association as the “Best book written on urban politics” in 1999; Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools (Kansas, 2001), named by the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association as the “best book written on urban politics” in 2001; and Spin Cycle: How Research is Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage,2008), winner of the American Educational Research Association “Outstanding Book” award.  His most recent book, co-authored with Rebecca Jacobsen and Sarah Reckhow, is Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics (Harvard Education Press, 2019).