David Farbman, Research Director
david@mass2020.org

David Farbman is the Research Director at Massachusetts 2020.  He is responsible for supervising and promoting the research agenda for all of Massachusetts 2020’s projects, the central goal of which is to measure how the use of time correlates to educational and other outcomes.  He is coordinating several data collection projects related to the Expanded Learning Time schools in Massachusetts and works with the Department of Education on its evaluation of these schools.  He is also heading up an effort to develop a national research agenda around time and learning, and has written a number of published reports and articles on the subject.

Prior to joining Massachusetts 2020, he worked in various policy and research positions at Recruiting New Teachers, Inc., Achieve, Inc. and Jobs for the Future.  He has also served as an advisor on educational and other policy issues to gubernatorial candidates in Massachusetts. 

A graduate of the public schools of Worcester, Mass., David earned his B.A. from Brandeis University and a Ph.D. in American History from Brown University, writing his dissertation on the culture of high school students in the postwar years.