About Chad

Chad Aldeman is the Founder and Principal of Aldeman Education, LLC. He consults nationally with leading organizations working for dramatic improvements in K-12 education. Chad also runs ReadNotGuess.com, which helps parents work with their children on early reading skills.

Chad has previously worked at the Edunomics Lab at Georgetown University, Bellwether Education, and the U.S. Department of Education. He has published a wide variety of reports on K-12 and higher education, including work on accountability systems; school choice; and teacher preparation, teacher evaluations, and teacher compensation. He served as the founding editor for TeacherPensions.org and continues to work on ways to improve retirement benefits for educators.

Chad’s work has been featured in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. Chad holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Iowa and a master’s of public policy degree from the College of William and Mary.

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Chad is a regular columnist for The 74 Million. See his full list of columns here.

Chad also writes about education improvement efforts at EduProgress.org and about all things math-related at We’re All Solvers.