John P Papay

John P. Papay is the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Associate Professor of Education Policy at Brown University, where he directs the Annenberg Institute. His research focuses on policies that affect teachers and how schools and policies create or work to ameliorate educational inequality. Papay conducts much of his research in collaborative partnerships with policymakers and practitioners. He currently leads the Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts project, a long-standing research-practice partnership (http://edopportunityma.org/). He is one of the founding senior researchers of the Research Partnership for Professional Learning, or RPPL (http://researchpl.org/). Locally, along with Nate Schwartz and other colleagues at Annenberg, he has built a partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Education and local school districts (https://annenberg.brown.edu/ri-research).