Carol Weiss
Carol Hirschon Weiss was an American scholar of education and policy analysis. She was the Beatrice B. Whiting Professor of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She was one of the founders of the scientific study of social programs and policies. Education and positions Weiss was born in New York. She obtained a Bachelor's Degree at Cornell University, followed by an M.A. and a Ph.D. at Columbia University. Weiss graduated from Columbia in 1977, where she worked at the Bureau of Applied Social Research. In 1978 she became a faculty member at the Graduate School of Education at Harvard. She was named the Beatrice B. Whiting Professor of Education there in 1999. Weiss was also a visiting fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Brookings Institution, and the United States Department of Education. She also served as President of the Policy Studies Organization. Research Weiss's research focused on policy studies, particularly in education, and she was one of the earliest scholars to develop methods for scientifically evaluating social programs. Weiss was one of the founders of the theory of change, a methodology for organizations to effect social change. In addition to developing methodologies