Havisha Khurana is a PhD candidate in the Quantitative Research Methods in Education program at the University of Oregon. She holds a Bachelor’s in Mathematics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi and a Master’s in Economics from University of Oregon. Drawing on her experiences as an educator in a low-income school through the Teach for India fellowship, her research examines the impact of education policies on the experiences of historically underserved student populations using descriptive and econometric methods. Her dissertation will evaluate three policies that promise equal opportunity for students with disabilities and the English Learner (EL) student population in the US and India. She has extensive experience working with state administrative and assessment data systems. She has contributed to projects on school discipline, school funding, access, EL reclassification policies and program models, and the technical adequacy of a literacy screener. Havisha was a 2025 Society for Research in Educational Evaluation (SREE) summer research fellow, a participant in EdFund’s inaugural State School Finance workshop series, and contributed to research led by Dr. Ilana Umansky on the effect of academic criterion in the EL reclassification policy for the Getting Down to Facts 3 project.
Institution
University of Oregon