Kenneth Wong

Kenneth Wong, Ph.D., Senior Counsel and Co-Director of CTAC’s Consortium for State-to-District Assistance, has conducted extensive research in school governance, federal and state education policy, management reform, and systemwide improvement and innovation strategies. He advises the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Secretaries of Education and Interior, state legislature, governors, mayors, and the leadership in several large urban school systems on how to redesign accountability frameworks. Ken served as facilitator for the development of the Providence Public School District Turnaround Action Plan in 2020. He was a key architect of the State of Rhode Island’s 2010 school funding formula, the first major funding reform in twenty years. Ken was the founding director of National Center for the Study of School Choice and Student Achievement. He was editor of a major educational policy journal, Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Ken is the Director of the School of Governance and Policy and The Kerry Group Professor in Public Policy at the University of Hong Kong and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution. He also serves as the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor Emeritus of Education Policy and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Brown University. Ken previously served as Brown University’s Director of Urban Education Policy Program and as Chair of the Department of Education.