Rachel Burstein is a freelance educational researcher and writer. She was formerly a researcher at EdSurge, where she contributed to research on early childhood education, K-12 and higher education.
Rachel previously worked in research roles at New America where she studied civic innovation in local government; and at Ithaka where she studied university libraries, research practices and digital initiatives in scholarly publishing. In addition, Rachel developed U.S. history and civics content at IXL Learning and taught history courses at Brooklyn College.
Rachel received her Ph.D. in history from the City University of New York Graduate Center, and her B.A. in history from Swarthmore College.
