PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – Assistant Professor of Education Matthew Kraft and Assistant Professor of Education John Papay have been included in Education Weekly's 2017 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings, an annual list of the top 200 U.S. university-based researchers most influencing educational policy and practice. Kraft and Papay were selected from tens of thousands who could be included, based on criteria ranging from Google scholar citations to syllabus points and newspaper mentions.