# Kelly Goodman Visiting Scholar in the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History ![Kelly Goodman](/sites/g/files/omnuum5671/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/2025-07/Goodman_Headshot.JPG?itok=f-tDxLBx) email Kelly Goodman is a historian of education and politics, with training in economics and a background in community and labor organizing. Kelly received her BA from the University of Michigan and her PhD in History from Yale University. Prior to entering Yale, Kelly worked as an education data analyst in Detroit during the era of free market school reform in the 2010s. Her research excavates alternatives to public education disinvestment, revealing the history of multiple grassroots struggles to fund equitable K-12 schools. Her book manuscript *Tax the Rich: A History of Teachers, Unions, and School Finance in the Modern U. S.* explores teachers’ campaigns to shift from property to income taxation and the resistance and counter-mobilization they faced from conservative activists, business organizations, and interest groups that ultimately won out. She has received fellowships and grants from the Hoover Archives, Harvard Business School, Rockefeller Archive Center, Bentley Historical Library, Walter P. Reuther Library and was the Louis Galambos National Fellow in Business and Politics in residence at the Hagley Library. Kelly teaches history of education to future teachers in the mid-Atlantic as an adjunct professor and subs in the Philadelphia schools. She created a graduate course about the labor history of schools with support from *Radical Teacher* magazine and West Chester University’s program in Transformative Education and Social Change. Her writing appears in *Dissent* and the *Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Social Justice in Education* and her book reviews are forthcoming in the *History of Education Quarterly* and the *American Journal of Education*. - ## Current People [Faculty Fellows](/faculty-fellows)