Rebecca Winthrop

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and Co-Author of The Disengaged Teen

Dr. Winthrop has authored numerous articles, reports, books, and book chapters, including most recently 鈥淭he Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better" with her co-author, Jenny Anderson. Her previous works include Transforming Education Systems: Why, What, and How鈥 with Hon. Minister David Sengeh; 鈥淐ollaborating to Transform and Improve Education Systems: A Playbook for Family-School Engagement鈥 with Adam Barton, Masha Ershadi, and Lauren Ziegler; 鈥淟eapfrogging Inequality: Remaking Education to Help Young People Thrive鈥 with Adam Barton and Eileen McGivney; 鈥淏eyond Reopening Schools: How Education Can Emerge Stronger Than Before COVID-19鈥 with Emiliana Vegas; 鈥淎ddressing Education Inequality with a Next Generation of Community Schools: A Blueprint for Mayors, States, and the Federal Government鈥 with the Brookings Task Force on Next Generation Community Schools; and 鈥淭he Need for Civic Education in 21st Century Schools.鈥 Her work has been featured in the BBC, ABC News, CNN, NPR, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Newsweek, Time Ideas, NPR, the Economist, the Financial Times, the Guardian, Bloomberg News, Glamour, and CSPAN, among others.

Rebecca Winthrop