Rate My Professor Joshua McGee

Joshua McGee serves as Associate Professor of Education Reform and 21st Century Endowed Chair in Accountability and Transparency in the Department of Education Reform within the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. He is also Associate Director of the Office for Education Policy and Founding Director of the Arkansas Policy Lab. McGee holds a Ph.D. in Economics (2011), M.S. in Industrial Engineering (2007), and B.S. in Industrial Engineering (2003), all from the University of Arkansas. His research focuses on teacher pensions and retirement behavior, public education policy including charter schools and school finance, education data analysis, policy evaluation, and economic impacts of teacher attrition and school district consolidation. Previously, he served as Chief Data Officer for the State of Arkansas (2020–2023), Executive Vice President at Arnold Ventures (2011–2018), Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (2015–2020), and Chairman of the Texas State Pension Review Board (2015–2019). He has provided expert testimony and technical assistance in more than 50 jurisdictions nationwide and holds directorships at MDRC and the Equable Institute. McGee participated in the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine ad hoc panel on A Vision and Roadmap for Education Statistics (2020–2022) and has refereed for journals such as Educational Researcher, Education Finance and Policy, and Journal of Pension Economics and Finance.