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Terry Stoops

Email: tstoops@johnlocke.org

Terry Stoops is the Policy Analyst for Pre-school, Elementary, and Secondary Education. Before joining the John Locke Foundation, he worked as an administrator for the Child Welfare Education and Research Programs at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. He taught English at a public high school in Spotsylvania, Virginia and taught professional communication at the University of Mary Washington College of Graduate and Professional Studies.

Stoops earned a bachelor’s degree in speech communication from Clarion University of Pennsylvania and a M.Ed. in Administrative and Policy Studies from the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. He is completing a Ph.D. in Foundations of Education at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education. While pursuing his doctorate, Stoops received the Bache Renshaw Fellowship from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and was a research intern for the Publications and Educational Services Division of the Library of Virginia.

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