Chris Weiland

Christina Weiland is Professor at the Marsal Family School of Education and the Karl and Martha Kohn Professor of Social Policy  at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, where she co-directs the Education Policy Initiative.  Her research focuses on the effects of early childhood interventions and public policies on children’s development, especially on children from  families with low incomes. She is particularly interested in the active ingredients that drive children’s gains in successful, at-scale public preschool programs. She holds an EdD (quantitative policy analysis in education) and a MA from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a BA from Dartmouth College.