Terry Stoops

Terry Stoops is the Policy Analyst for Pre-school, Elementary and Secondary Education at the John Locke Foundation. Previously he worked as an administrator for the Child Welfare Education and Research Programs at the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work. He taught 11th- and 12th-grade English at Spotsylvania High School in Spotsylvania, Virginia, and taught professional communication at the University of Mary Washington College of Graduate and Professional Studies in Stafford, Virginia.

Stoops earned a bachelor’s degree in speech communication from Clarion University of Pennsylvania and a M.Ed. in Administrative and Policy Studies from the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. He is completing a Ph.D. in Foundations of Education at the University of Virginia Curry School of Education.