Sean Reardon
Professor (by courtesy), Sociology
Sean Reardon is the endowed Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education and is Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology at Stanford University. His research focuses on the causes, patterns, trends, and consequences of social and educational inequality, the effects of educational policy on educational and social inequality, and in applied statistical methods for educational research. Reardon is the developer of the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA). Based on 300 million standardized test scores, SEDA provides measures of educational opportunity, average test score performance, academic achievement gaps, and other information for every public school district in the US.
Reardon is the director of the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford and developer of the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA). Based on 450 million standardized test scores, SEDA provides publicly available measures of educational opportunity, average test score performance, academic achievement gaps, and other information for every public school district in the US.