Jay P. Greene is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and endowed chair and head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Greene conducts research and writes about education policy, including topics such as school choice, high school graduation rates, accountability, and special education.

His research was cited four times in the Supreme Court's opinions in the landmark Zelman v. Simmons-Harris case on school vouchers. His articles have appeared in policy journals, such as The Public Interest, City Journal, and Education Next, in academic journals, such as The Georgetown Public Policy Review, Education and Urban Society, and The British Journal of Political Science, as well as in major newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Jay Greene is the author of Education Myths (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).

Greene has been a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Houston. He received his B.A. in history from Tufts University in 1988 and his Ph.D. from the Government Department at Harvard University in 1995. He lives with his wife and three children in Fayetteville, AR.

Select Media:

• Lynn Woolley Show, KTEM, 4-3-08
• Ron Smith Show, WBAL, 4-2-08
• Bob Davis Show, KSTP, 1-15-08
• Lynn Woolley Show, KTEM, 7-5-07

Articles/Op-eds

• School choice helps disabled Ariz. students By Marcus A. Winters and Jay P. Greene, East Valley Tribune, 05-04-08
• The Politics of Special-Ed Vouchers By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Washington Times, 05-01-08 Part III
• Vouchers for special-ed students By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Washington Times, 04-30-08 Part II
• Vouchers and Special Education By Marcus A. Winters and Jay P. Greene, Washington Times, 04-29-08 Part I
• A Special-Ed Fix By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, New York Post, 04-30-08
• Reforming Drop-Out Rates By Marcus A. Winters and Jay P. Greene, New York Sun, 04-08-08
• Charters Elevate Everyone BusinessWeek.com, 03-15-08
• Students Lose When Diversity Is Main Focus By Jay P. Greene and Catherine Shock, Investor's Business Daily, 01-09-08
• Freston as Scapegoat By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, New York Sun, 11-08-07
• Union Days National Review Online, 09-12-07
• The Odd Couple Education Next, Fall 2007
• Merit Pay Could Boost Learning By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, The Oklahoman, 08-05-07
• Four Score and Seven Manatees Ago By Jay P. Greene, Brian Kisida, Jonathan Butcher, NRO Web Links, 07-03-07 (This article originally appears in the forthcoming summer issue of City Journal)
• Debunking a Special Education Myth By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Education Next, March 2007
• Steve Jobs Has Guts By Jay P. Greene, New York Sun, 02-21-07 (This appears on RealClearPolitics.com, 2-21-07, and is also a NRO Web Brief, 2-21-07)
• The Myth of the Underpaid Teacher By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Philadelphia Daily News, 02-07-07
• Teachers are better paid than you think By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Providence Journal, 02-09-07
• Myths of the Teachers Unions FrontPageMagazine.com, 01-09-07
• Reason to rethink social promotion By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 10-1-06
• Promoting the end of social promotion By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Chicago Sun-Times, 9-17-06
• School officials shouldn't go wobbly on social promotion By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Examiner, 9-14-06
• Social Promotion Is Running Before Walking By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, Tampa Tribune, 9-14-06
• Advancement By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, National Review Online, 9-13-06
• "Losing Ground" in Education Reform By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, National Review Online, 7-27-06
• Education Myths By Jay P. Greene, American Enterprise Online, 6-13-06
• Try altering incentives for teachers By Jay P. Greene and Marcus A. Winters, The Inquirer, 5-4-06
• There's a dropout crisis in Dallas public schools By Jay P. Greene, Dallas Morning News, 5-3-06
• Educating From the Bench By Jay P. Greene, Wall Street Journal, 4-27-06
• Merit Pay: A Tool for Teaching By Jay P. Greene, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 4-24-06
• The dropout crisis By Jay P. Greene & Marcus A. Winters, Examiner, 4-19-06
• Chicago must find way to help students finish high school By Jay P. Greene & Marcus A. Winters, Chicago Sun-Times, 4-19-06
• The Boys Left Behind By Jay P. Greene & Marcus A. Winters, National Review, 4-19-06
• Making the Grade By Jay Greene, Daily News, 4-15-06
• Stop the train By Jay Greene, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 4-4-06
• Missing the Mark on Graduation Rates By Jay P. Greene, Marcus A. Winters, & Christopher B. Swanson, Education Week, 3-29-06
• Testing High-Stakes Tests: Can We Believe the Results of Accountability Tests? By Jay Greene, Marcus Winters & Greg Forster, TCRecord.com, 3-15-06
• The 65-Cent Delusion By Jay P. Greene & Jonathan Butcher, National Review Online, 3-2-06
• Getting Ahead by Staying Behind: An Evaluation of Florida's Program to End Social Promotion Education Next, Spring 2006
• A new yardstick for education, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 1-15-06
• Florida vouchers ruling shows courts go too far, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1-13-06
• Stupid Judge Tricks By Jay Greene and Marcus Winters, National Review Online, 1-11-06

Testimony

• Testimony of Jay P. Greene on the CFE Lawsuit, 01-08-05

Reports

• The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence From Florida's McKay Scholarship Programs Civic Report 52, April 2008
• What's in a Name? The Decline in The Civic Mission of School Names Civic Report 51, July 2007
• How Much Are Public School Teachers Paid? Civic Report 50, January 2007
• Getting Farther Ahead by Staying Behind: A Second-Year Evaluation of Florida's Policy to end Social Promotion Civic Report 49, September 2006
• Leaving Boys Behind: Public High School Graduation Rates Civic Report 48, April 2006
• An Evaluation of the Effect of D.C.'s Voucher Program on Public School Achievement and Racial Integration After One Year Education Working Paper 10, January 2006
• The Effect of Residential School Choice on Public High School Graduation Rates Education Working Paper 9, April 2005
• Public High School Graduation and College-Readiness Rates: 1991–2002 Education Working Paper 8, February 2005
• An Evaluation of Florida's Program to End Social Promotion Education Working Paper, December 2004
• The Teachability Index: Can Disadvantaged Students Learn? Education Working Paper 6, September 2004
• Pushed Out or Pulled Up? Exit Exams and Dropout Rates in Public High Schools Education Working Paper 5, May 2004
• Sex, Drugs, and Delinquency in Urban and Suburban Public Schools Education Working Paper 4, January 2004
• Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the United States Education Working Paper 3, September 2003
• When Schools Compete: The Effects of Vouchers on Florida Public School Achievement Education Working Paper 2, August 2003
• Apples to Apples: An Evaluation of Charter Schools Serving General Student Populations Education Working Paper 1, July 2003
• Vouchers for Special Education Students: An Evaluation of Florida’s McKay Scholarship Program Civic Report 38, June 2003
• This Works: Improving Urban Education Civic Bulletin 34, March 2003
• Testing High Stakes Tests: Can We Believe the Results of Accountability Tests? Civic Report 33, February 2003
• Effects of Funding Incentives on Special Education Enrollment Civic Report 32, December 2002
• Public School Graduation Rates in the United States Civic Report 31, November 2002
• Rising to the Challenge: The Effect of School Choice on Public Schools in Milwaukee and San Antonio Civic Bulletin 27, October 2002
• High School Graduation Rates in Washington State Civic Report 27, August 2002
• 2001 Education Freedom Index Civic Report 24, January 2002
• High School Graduation Rates in the United States Civic Report (with BAEO), November 2001
• An Evaluation of the Florida A-Plus Accountability and School Choice Program Civic Report (with Florida State University and PEPG), February 2001
• Education Freedom Index Civic Report 14, September 2000
• The Effect of School Choice: An Evaluation of the Charlotte Children’s Scholarship Fund Program Civic Report 12, August 2000
• A Survey of Results from Voucher Experiments: Where We Are and What We Know Civic Report 11, July 2000
• Choice and Community: The Racial, Economic, and Religious Context of Parental Choice in Cleveland A Buckeye Institute Policy Report, November 1999
• An Evaluation of the Cleveland Voucher Program After Two Years Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, June 1999
• Lessons From the Cleveland Scholarship Program Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, October 1997

Books

• Education Myths: What Special-Interest Groups Want You to Believe About our Schools—and Why It Isn't So (Rowan & Littlefield, September 2005)

City Journal articles

• Is School Choice Enough? 24 January 2008
• Adding Up to Failure Winter 2008
• Four Score and Seven Manatees Ago Summer 2007
• Four Score and Seven Manatees Ago 2 July 2007
• Out-in-Left-Field Trips Spring 2007
• The Special-Ed Hoax 2 August 2002
• Why Vouchers are Constitutional 14 March 2002
• GEDs Aren’t Worth the Paper They’re Printed On Winter 2002
• The Texas School Miracle Is for Real Summer 2000
• The NEA’s Racket? Summer 2000