Kenneth Wong

Kenneth Wong is the Kerry Group Professor in Public Policy and Director of the School of Governance and Policy at the University of Hong Kong. He is the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor Emeritus for Education Policy at Brown as well as Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Urban Studies. He has conducted extensive research in federalism, policy innovation, outcome-based accountability, politics of education, and governance redesign (including city and state takeover, management reform, and Title I school-wide reform). His research has received support from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Education, the Social Science Research Council, the Spencer Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the British Council, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Wong has advised the US Secretaries of Education and Interior, US Congress, state legislature, governor and mayoral offices, and the leadership in several large urban school systems on how to redesign the accountability framework. He was editor of a major educational policy journal, Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis.