Eric Grodsky

Eric Grodsky is the director of MEP and a professor of Sociology & Educational Policy Studies at UW–Madison. Grodsky’s research is focused on inequality in educational opportunities and achievement across the life course. He has written on the role of race/ethnicity and social background in shaping college attendance and completion, the role of testing in American education, and how education shapes health and mortality at midlife.

Grodsky’s current projects include work on the role of full-day preschool in student learning, variation in the underlying causes of student disparities in school attendance, and the relationship between educational opportunities and achievements in adolescence and the experience of chronic pain at midlife.