Jo R. King

Hello! I am an Assistant Professor of Education Policy in the Wheelock College of Education and Human Development at Boston University.  

I study K-12 education policy in the U.S., with an emphasis on how exclusionary school discipline policies may impact equitable outcomes for marginalized groups and how schools discipline and control student behavior, whether through suspension, special education classification, or police in schools. I am framed by economics of education and sociology literatures and use rigorous quantitative methods to understand causal relationships between policy and student outcomes. 

Before joining the faculty at BU, I earned my PhD in Public Policy from New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service, my MA in Economics from Miami University of Ohio,  and  BAs in Economics and Spanish from Western Washington University.