Michael Q. McShane is a research fellow in education policy studies at AEI. He is coauthor of President Obama and Education Reform: The Personal and the Political, published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2012. His scholarship has been published by Education Finance and Policy and in various technical reports. He has contributed to more popular publications such as Education Next, Huffington Post, National Review, Chronicle of Higher Education Review, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He began his career as an inner-city high school teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He holds an MEd from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD in education policy from the University of Arkansas.