Nat Malkus
Nat Malkus
Senior Fellow & Deputy Director of Education Policy Studies | American Enterprise Institute
Nat Malkus is a senior fellow and the deputy director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and an affiliate of AEI’s James Q. Wilson Program in K–12 Education Studies. He is the creator of AEI’s Return to Learn Tracker, which tracked pandemic school closures and masking policies and currently tracks post-pandemic chronic absenteeism, and the host of the podcast The Report Card with Nat Malkus.
Dr. Malkus’s current research interests include post-pandemic chronic absenteeism, student achievement trends, school choice, and government contracting. Previously, he also studied career and technical education, Advanced Placement, credit recovery, student loan forgiveness, and American school responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Malkus’s work has been featured in numerous outlets, including Education Next, Los Angeles Times, National Affairs, National Review, The New York Times, NPR, USA Today, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.
Before joining AEI, Dr. Malkus was a senior researcher at the American Institutes for Research and spent four years as a public middle school teacher in Maryland. Dr. Malkus has a PhD in education policy and leadership from the University of Maryland, College Park, and a BA in historical studies from Covenant College.
