Patricia Burch

Dr. Burch, Associate Professor of Education at University of Southern California, studies the drivers and manifestations of private involvement (for profit and not for profit) in K-12 education and the implications for equity and quality in public schools. Over the past decade, Dr. Burch has conducted major studies and evaluations of K-12 education reform such as class size reduction, systemic district instructional reform in large urban school districts, teacher professional development reforms, and school-linked services.

She is the author of several books, including Hidden Markets: The New Education Privatization (Routledge, 2009), Equal Scrutiny: Privatization and Accountability in Digital Education, with Annalee Good (Harvard Education Press, 2014) and Mixed Methods Research in Policy and Program Evaluation (SAGE, in press).

Email Patricia Burch at: pburch@usc.edu