Yesterday, we unveiled the 2025 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings. Of course, education research includes a lot of people doing very different kinds of work. Thus, over the years, readers have been intensely interested in how scholars fared within particular fields of study. Where scholars rank overall may be less telling than where they rank within their field. Today, we鈥檒l report on the top 10 finishers for five disciplinary categories. (For a detailed discussion of how the scoring was done, see Wednesday鈥檚 post .)
Now, there can be ambiguity when it comes to determining a given scholar鈥檚 discipline. For the most part, my research assistants work off CVs, relying primarily on a scholar鈥檚 degree. In the handful of cases where that didn鈥檛 suffice, I made a judgment call. If you think I鈥檝e made the wrong call on someone, let me know, and we鈥檒l do our best to make appropriate adjustments next year.
You can scroll through each chart below.
The tables pretty much speak for themselves. The top finisher in Curriculum, Instruction, and Administration was Linda Darling-Hammond; in Economics, Raj Chetty; in Government and Policy, Shaun Harper; in Psychology, Carol Dweck; and, in Sociology, Pedro Noguera.
Well, that wraps up the 2025 Edu-Scholar Rankings. Next week, we鈥檒l return to our regularly scheduled programming.
