College of Education and Human Development

Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development

Nisma Elias

  • Pronouns: she, her, hers

  • Doctoral Student, CIDE

Nisma Elias

Areas of interest

  • Socialization of privilege
  • Equity and access
  • Elite schooling
  • Shadow education
  • Private tutoring / private schooling
Degrees

MA, International Development Economics, Yale University, 2013
BA, Economics, Reed College, 2012

Biography
  • Instructor for Mastering Skills for College Success and Academic Success, Student Counseling Center
  • Co-editor of the Reconsidering Development Journal
  • Current chair and founding member of the Graduate League of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development (GLO)
Publications

Elias, N.. (2019). The global education reform movement: Is it working? Reconsidering Development, 6(1). Retrieved from https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/reconsidering.

Elias, N.. (2017). Systems in action: Tanzania. World Bank Brief. Retrieved from http://wbgfiles.worldbank.org

Elias, N.. (2015). Empowering Uganda’s Youth to Be Job Creators. World Bank Feature Story. Washington DC: World Bank Group.

Burnett, N & Elias, N.. (2014). Education’s buy-down option. Project Syndicate. Retrieved from https://www.project-syndicate.org

Presentations

Rakusin, M., Elias, N., & Masoud, M. (2018). Why do private schools consistently outperform public schools in Zanzibar? Presentation at Comparative International Education Society (CIES), 2019, San Francisco.