Martin Carnoy

Martin Carnoy is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University Graduate School of Education. He is also co-director of the Lemann Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Brazilian Education at Stanford. He was previously a research associate in economics at the Foreign Policy Division at Brookings Institution. A labor economist, his research focuses on the relationship between the economy and educational systems, both in the U.S. and internationally. He has extensively studied how labor markets address issues of race, ethnicity, and gender, as well as the impact of economic inequality on educational systems worldwide. In recent years, his work has examined educational quality in Latin America, Africa, Russia, and among U.S. states. He earned his BA in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology and his MA and PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

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