Megan Tompkins-Stange

Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School

Megan Tompkins-Stange is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. She is the author of Policy Patrons: Philanthropy, Education Reform, and the Politics of Influence (Harvard Education Press, 2016). With Sarah Reckhow, she is currently co-authoring a second book that empirically traces how test score-based teacher evaluation became a central policy idea over the last two decades (under contract, University of Chicago Press). Her research focuses on P-16 education and institutional change, with an emphasis on how private actors shape public policy. She received her Ph.D. in Education Policy and Organization Studies from Stanford University in 2013.


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