Eric Larsen

Eric Larsen, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the USC EdPolicy Hub, specializing in teacher and leader effectiveness, program and policy evaluation, and experimental and quasi-experimental research designs. He is currently the Co-PI for the Education-to-Workforce K–12 Network, which centers on a new network of Southern California districts and charter management organizations that harness administrative and other data to develop strategies aimed at improving academic and workforce outcomes for students. Larsen has been the PI of seven evaluations of interventions designed to improve the effectiveness and retention of K–12 school leaders. In 2023 and 2024, he was the PI of a study for Illinois State Board of Education that gathered feedback on the state’s teacher and leader evaluation systems and structures from stakeholders statewide and reviewed best practices from other states. Between 2017 and 2022, he led a project that generated annual teacher and school value-added scores for Florida Department of Education for Grades 4–8 ELA and mathematics and the Algebra I End of Course assessment. Larsen was a middle school teacher in California public schools for eight years, and he holds a PhD in economics from the University of California, Davis.