Ethan Hutt, Ph.D.

Program Director, Minor in Education

Associate Professor

Journal Article

Tang, A., & Hutt, E. (2026). “Original History” and the Free Exercise Case for Religious Charter Schools. Washington University Law Review. Published.

Cohen, J., Hutt, E., Berlin, R., & Wiseman, E. (2022). The change we cannot see: Instructional quality and classroom observation in the era of common core. Educational Policy. Published.

Hutt, E. (2021). The Sickness in Our Schools: Corona and the Logic of Human Capital. Bildungsgeschichte: International Journal for the Historiography of Education, 1, 61–64.

Gottfried, M., Kir, J. J., & Hutt, E. (2020). Can Teacher Education Programs Help Prepare New Kindergarten and First Grade Teachers to Assess Student Absenteeism?. Children and Youth Services Review, 112.

Gottfried, M., Kirksey, J. J., & Hutt, E. (2020). How Can Pre-Service Teaching Programs Help New Teachers Feel Prepared to Address Absenteeism?. Teachers College Record, 122(5).

Cohen, J., Hutt, E., Berlin, R. L., Mathews, H. M., McGraw, J. P., & Gottlieb, J. (2020). Sense making and professional identity in the implementation of edTPA. Journal of Teacher Education, 71(1), 9–23.

Hutt, E., Klasik, D., & Tang, A. (2020). How Do Judges Decide School Finance Cases?. Washington University Law Review, 97(4), 1047–1130.

Hutt, E., & Polikoff, M. S. (2020). Toward a Framework for Public Accountability in Education Reform. Educational Researcher, 49(7), 503–511.

Gottlieb, J. J., Hutt, E., & Superfine, B. M. (2020). Causal Stories in Vergara v. California. Educational Policy, 34(4), 559–593.

Plasman, J. S., Michael, G., & Hutt, E. (2020). Then and Now: Depicting a Changing National Profile of STEM Career and Technical Education Course Takers. Teachers College Record, 122(2), 1–28.

Klasik, D., & Hutt, E. (2019). Bobbing for bad apples: Accreditation, quantitative performance measures, and the identification of low-performing colleges. The Journal of Higher Education, 90(3), 427–461.

Gottfried, M., Kirksey, J. J., & Hutt, E. (accepted). How Can Pre-Service Teaching Programs Help New Teachers Feel Prepared to Address Absenteeism?. Teachers College Record.

Gottfried, M. A., Hutt, E., & Kirksey, J. J. (2019). New Teachers’ Perceptions on Being Prepared to Teach Students With Learning Disabilities: Insights From California. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 52(5), 383–398.

Hutt, E. (2019). The practice of attending to bodies and minds in education. History of Education, 48(4), 546–552.

Hutt, E., & Schneider, J. (2018). A History of Achievement Testing in the United States or: Explaining the Persistence of Inadequacy. Teachers College Record, 120(11), 1–34.

Hutt, E., Gottlieb, J., & Cohen, J. J. (2018). Diffusion in a vacuum: edTPA, legitimacy, and the rhetoric of teacher professionalization. Teaching and Teacher Education, 69, 52–61.

Casalaspi, D., Hutt, E., & Schneider, J. (2018). Identifying Good Teachers: Expert versus Ordinary Knowledge. International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 13(4), n4.

Hutt, E. (2018). Measuring missed school: The historical precedents for the measurement and use of attendance records to evaluate schools. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk (JESPAR), 23(1-2), 5–8.

Hutt, E., & Polikoff, M. (2018). Reasonable Expectations: A Reply to Elmendorf and Shanske 2018. University of Illinois Law Review Online, 2, 194–208.

Hutt, E., & Stevens, M. L. (2017). From soldiers to students: The tests of general educational development (GED) as diplomatic measurement. Social Science History, 41(4), 731–755.

Andrews, T., Bensel, R., Berg, M., Betjemann, P., Bissett, J., Bonker, D., Cahill, C., Calhoun, C., Carey, A., Chiang, C., & others. (2017). The editors would like to thank the following people, who in addition to the editors and members of the editorial board, read and evaluated manuscripts submitted to the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era from July 2016 to June 2017. Catherine Adams. The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 16, 549.

Hutt, E. (2017). “Seeing Like a State” in the Postwar Era: The Coleman Report, Longitudinal Datasets, and the Measurement of Human Capital. History of Education Quarterly, 57(4), 615–625.

Hutt, E., & Schneider, J. (2016). A Thin Line Between Love and Hate: Educational Measurement in the United States. Published.

Hutt, E. (2016). Surveying the nation: longitudinal surveys and the construction of national solutions to educational inequity. Ethics and Education, 11(2), 240–258.

Tr\”ohler, Daniel, Meyer, H., Labaree, D. F., & Hutt, E. (2014). Accountability: Antecedents, power, and processes. Teachers College Record, 116(9), 1–22.

Hutt, E. (2014). Accountability: Antecedents, Power, and Processes. Teachers College Record, 116, 090301.

Schneider, J., & Hutt, E. (2014). Making the grade: a history of the A–F marking scheme. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 46(2), 201–224.

Hutt, E. (2014). The GED and the Rise of Contextless Accountability. Teachers College Record, 116(9), 1–20.

Hutt, E. (2012). Formalism Over Function: Compulsion, Courts, and the Rise of Educational Formalism in America, 1870–1930. Teachers College Record, 114(1), 1–27.

Hutt, E., & Tang, A. (2012). The New Education Malpractice Litigation. Virginia Law Review, 99(3), 420–491.

Book

Schneider, J., & Hutt, E. (2023). Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To). Harvard University Press. https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248410

Absent from School: Understanding and Addressing Student Absenteeism. (2019). In M. A. Gottfried & E. Hutt (Eds.), Harvard Education Press. Harvard Education Press.

Book Chapter

Hutt, E., & Ydesen, C. (2026). Education, Tests, and Measures. In Encyclopedia of Measurement in Social Sciences, Second Edition.

Hutt, E. (2025). Grading Policies. In Education Policy Live Handbook. AEFP.

Hutt, E. (2023). Testing the Exception: The Curious Embrace of International Comparisons in American Education Discourse. In National Literacies in Education: Historical Reflections on the Nexus of Nations, National Identity, and Education. Springer.

Polikoff, M. S., & Hutt, E. L. (accepted). The Struggle to Implement Balanced Assessment Systems: Explanations and Opportunities. National Academy of Education.

Hutt, E. (2021). The State’s Spectacles: Education Statistics, Representations of Schooling, and the Federal Government’s Educational Sight. In Production, Presentation, and Acceleration of Educational Research: Could Less Be More? (pp. 157–172). Springer.

Hutt, E., & Schneider, J. (2018). A thin line between love and hate: Educational assessment in the United States. In Student Assessment Cultures in Historical Perspective.

Hutt, E. (2018). Taking the Long View: Longitudinal Surveys and the Construction of Educational Inequality in America. In Educational Research: Ethics, Social Justice, and Funding Dynamics (pp. 121–141). Springer, Cham.

Hutt, E. (2016). School Development and School Reforms. In Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer.

Hutt, E. (2016). The ‘Crisis’ Problem: On the Pervasiveness of Crisis Rhetoric in American Education Research. In Educational Research: Discourses of Change and Changes of Discourse (pp. 153–172). Springer, Cham.

Book Review

Mayernick, J., & Hutt, E. (2017). US Public Schools and the Politics of Queer Erasure. Educational Theory, 67(3), 343–349. Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Malden, USA.

Hutt, E. (2013). William J. Reese. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 298 pp. $45.00. History of Education Quarterly, 53(4), 480–483. Cambridge University Press.

Hutt, E. (2011). William A. Fischel. Making the Grade: The Economic Evolution of American School Districts. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 304 pp. Cloth $55.00. History of Education Quarterly, 51(4), 562–565. Cambridge University Press.

Conference Proceeding

Klasik, D., & Hutt, E. (2015). Bobbing for Bad Apples: An Investigation of the Potential of Postsecondary Institutional Rating System (PIRS) Using Public Data. AEFP Conference Paper. Published.

Magazine/Trade Publication

Hutt, E., & Schneider, J. (2023). Off the Mark. California English, 29(2).

Newspaper Article

Hutt, E. (2021, October). The Problem with Ranking Schools. Washington Post. Published. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/10/22/problem-with-ranking-schools/

Other

Yaow, Y. H., Gershenson, S., Blazar, D., & Hutt, E. (2026). The Causal Effect of Student Absences Post Pandemic: Evidence from Three School Systems. In The IZA Discussion Paper Series. https://docs.iza.org/dp18652.pdf

Blazar, D., Gershenson, S., & Hutt, E. (2025). Absences and Achievement After the Pandemic: Evidence from Maryland and North Carolina. American Enterprise Institute. https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/absences-and-achievement-after-the-pandemic-evidence-from-maryland-and-north-carolina/

Blazar, D., Gershenson, S., & Hutt, E. (2025). What Would Happen If We Returned to Pre-COVID Attendance Levels?. American Enterprise Institute. https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/what-would-happen-if-we-returned-to-pre-covid-attendance-levels/#scrollSection10

Tang, A., & Hutt, E. (2025). Tax dollars for religious schools? Conservative justices could be the roadblock. In Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2025-04-17/religious-charter-school-funding-supreme-court

Schneider, J., & Hutt, E. (2023). Is the new handwringing over grade inflation inflated?. https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/11/13/is-handwringing-over-grade-inflation-inflated/

Gottfried, M. A., & Hutt, E. (2019). Addressing Absenteeism: Lessons for Policy and Practice. In Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE. Policy Analysis for California Education, PACE. 520 Galvez Mall, CERAS Room~….

Hutt, E. (2016). A Brief History of the Student Record. In Ithaka S+R (http://dx.doi.org/10.18665/sr.283886).

Hutt, E., & Schneider, J. (2012). The Rhetoric of Reform. In Teachers College Record (Commentary).