Adam Kho is doctoral candidate in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations, Peabody College at Vanderbilt University, specializing in K-12 Education Policy Studies with a minor in Quantitative Methods.  He will be joining the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor of Education in K-12 Policy and Leadership in the fall of 2018.

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, who returned him to his hometown in Atlanta, Georgia, where he taught high school mathematics for three years and served subsequently as an Instructional Coach for two years. During this 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 strongly shaped his research interests, which include education policies and evaluation of programs serving traditionally disadvantaged students, with a focus on school improvement, school reform, and school turnaround. Adam primarily works with Dr. Gary Henry at Vanderbilt University and Dr. Ron Zimmer at the University of Kentucky. His current research includes an evaluation of Tennessee’s Achievement School District and a series of studies evaluating the effects of charter schools on student achievement and on the sorting of students both academically and demographically.