Molly Gordon

Molly F. Gordon is a Senior Principal Researcher at the Learning Policy Institute (LPI).  Her recent work focuses on the educator workforce and school principal pipelines including leader identification, recruitment, preparation, application patterns, hiring, and retention. Recently she served as the principal investigator (PI) on a study funded by the Institute of Educational Sciences (IES), investigating the principal pipeline in Chicago and across the state of Tennessee with colleagues from Vanderbilt University, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, and the UChicago Consortium on School Research (the Consortium). She is currently a Co-PI on a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded grant examining science and math teacher recruitment and retention in rural districts in Illinois. Dr. Gordon has published numerous research reports, policy briefs, as well as book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in Journal of American Education, International Journal of Leadership in Education, American Journal of Education, and Educational Administrative Quarterly. She received her MA in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her PhD in Education Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities.

Contact: gordon-molly@norc.org