Tom Luschei is a professor in CGU’s School of Educational Studies, where he teaches and advises MA and PhD students. The primary focus of his research is the impact and availability of educational resources among children and youth in marginalized settings. He has conducted related research in Africa, Asia, and North, Central, and South America, and he has been invited to present his research in Argentina, Colombia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and South Korea. Luschei’s recent research has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, including the Comparative Education Review, Education Policy Analysis Archives, Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Researcher, Journal of International Cooperation in Education, the International Journal of Educational Development, and Teachers College Record. He is the author (with Amita Chudgar) of Teacher distribution in developing countries: Teachers of marginalized students in India, Mexico, and Tanzania (2017, Palgrave Macmillan). With colleagues from Michigan State University and the University of Wisconsin, he is engaged in a mixed methods study of marginalized youth’s secondary education experiences in Colombia, India, and Malawi, with funding from a Lyle Spencer Research Grant.
Luschei is a co-editor of the American Educational Research Journal, the flagship journal of the American Educational Research Association. He also served for more than six years as associate editor of the International Journal of Educational Development. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several leading journals in education, including Educational Researcher, Forum for International Research in Education, Journal of Teacher Education, and Prospects: UNESCO’s Comparative Journal of Curriculum, Learning, and Assessment.
In 2013, Luschei taught a graduate-level class and conducted research as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. In 2016 he served as a Fulbright Specialist at the Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Prior to pursuing his PhD, he worked as a bilingual elementary, high school, and adult education teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District, where he taught students ranging in age from six to eighty-four.
(* denotes current or former graduate student)
Luschei, T. F. (2025). International and comparative research on attracting, preparing, and sustaining a high-quality teacher workforce. In L. Cohen-Vogel, P. Youngs, & J. Scott (Eds.), Handbook of Education Policy Research, 2nd edition. American Educational Research Association.
Soto-Peña*, M., Luschei, T. F., Delgado, M. D., Galaviz, S., Garcia-Ochoa, E., Guzman, D., Guzman-Carrete, S., Ruiz-Rodriguez, L., Uribe-Luschei, Y., & Vazquez, E. (2025). Combining dual language immersion with International Baccalaureate: Sí se puede. Multilingual Educator.
Asadullah, M. N., Bouhlila, D. S., Chan, S. J., Draxler, A., Ha, W., Heyneman, S. P., Luschei, T. F., Semela, T., & Yemini, M. (2023). A year of missed opportunity: Post-Covid learning loss–A renewed call to action. International Journal of Educational Development, 99, 102770.
Luschei, T. F., & Jeong, D. W. (2023). Organizing schools for improvement: The role of school decision making and authority. In R. J. Tierney, F. Rizvi, & K. Ercikan (Eds.), International encyclopaedia of education, 4th edition (pp. 203-208). Elsevier.
Jeong, D. W., Moon, C. J., Moon, H. & Luschei, T. F. (2023). A cross-national analysis of school boards’ roles and consequences for school resources and student achievement. Comparative Education Review, 67(3).
Rew*, W. J., Andon*, A., & Luschei, T. F. (2022). Student achievement, school quality, and an error-prone family background measure: exploring the sensitivity of the Heyneman-Loxley effect in Southern and Eastern Africa. Large-scale Assessments in Education, 10(1), 1-28.
Luschei, T. F., & Spiegelberg*, A. (2020). International cooperation in teacher training and the supply of qualified teachers: Lessons from the United States Peace Corps. Journal of International Cooperation in Education, 22(2)/23(2), 31-56.
Luschei, T. F., & Jeong, D. W. (2020). School governance and student achievement: Cross-national evidence from the 2015 PISA. Educational Administration Quarterly.
Navarro-Cruz*, G., & Luschei, T. F. (2020). Quality preschool as defined by Latina mothers: A qualitative study using a Funds of Knowledge Framework. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 34(1), 6-27.
Luschei, T. F., & Castañeda*, A. (2019). Comparative education and training of International Baccalaureate teachers. In M. A. Peters (Ed.), Encyclopedia of teacher education (pp. 1-6). Singapore: Springer Singapore.
Luschei, T. F., & Soto-Peña*, M. (2019). Beyond achievement: Colombia’s Escuela Nueva and the creation of active citizens. In R. Aman & T. D. Ireland (Eds.), Educational alternatives in Latin America: New modes of counter hegemonic learning (pp. 113-141). Palgrave Macmillan.
Jeong, D. W., & Luschei, T. F. (2019). Teacher sorting within and across schools and nations: A comparative study of South Korea and the United States. Teachers College Record, 121(8).
Gozali*, C., Luschei, T. F., Diki*, & Yukamana, H. (2019). Indonesia Mengajar: An investment in hope. Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 1-21.
Luschei, T. F., & Jeong, D. W. (2018). Is teacher sorting a global phenomenon? Cross-national evidence on the nature and correlates of teacher quality opportunity gaps. Educational Researcher, 47(9), 556–576.
Jeong, D. W., & Luschei, T. F. (2018). Are teachers losing control of the classroom? Global changes in school governance and teacher responsibilities, 2000-2015. International Journal of Educational Development, 62, 289-301.
Navarro-Cruz*, G. E., & Luschei, T. F. (2018). International evidence on effective early childhood care and education programs: A review of best practices. Global Education Review, 5(2), 8-27.
Luschei, T. F., & Chudgar, A. (2017). Teacher distribution in developing countries: Teachers of marginalized students in India, Mexico, and Tanzania. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Capstone for Doctoral Research
Education Across the Americas
Education and International Development
Education Policy
Practicum in Doctoral Research
Teacher Quality & Teacher Labor Markets
Writing for Publication in Education