Dear USC Rossier Faculty, Staff and Students,
I am pleased to announce that, after a national search, we have extended an offer to Adam Kho to fill our tenure-track faculty position in K–12 Education Policy and Leadership. Adam has accepted and will begin as an assistant professor in August 2018.
Adam is currently completing his PhD in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, with a specialty in K-12 Education Policy Studies and a minor in Quantitative Methods.
Prior to Vanderbilt, Adam received his bachelor’s degree in Chemical-Biological Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a minor in Biology. He then joined Teach for America, which returned him to his hometown in Atlanta, where he taught high school mathematics for three years and served subsequently as an instructional coach for two years. During that time, he also completed his master’s degree in Secondary Mathematics Education at Georgia State University.
Adam’s stint in a low-performing, Title I turnaround school has shaped his research interests, which include education policies and evaluation of programs serving traditionally disadvantaged students, with a focus on school reform. His current research includes an evaluation of Tennessee’s portfolio model for school turnaround, a series of studies evaluating the effects of charter schools on student achievement and on the sorting of students both academically and demographically, and the impact of the Community Eligibility Provision on various student outcomes in Tennessee.
I want to thank Associate Deans Larry Picus and Darline Robles and the members of our search committee: Tricia Burch, Mike Chung, Shira Korn (PhD student), Tatiana Melguizo, Erika Patall, Morgan Polikoff and David Quinn. They identified a very strong pool of candidates whose research interests aligned with our mission to advance educational equity.
Please join me in welcoming Adam to the USC Rossier Family!
Fight On!
Sincerely,
Karen Symms Gallagher, Ph.D.
Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean
USC Rossier School of Education
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