Alex Holt
Policy Analyst, Education Policy Program
Alex Holt is a policy analyst with the Education Policy Program at New America where he focuses on the economics of higher education as well as pre-K education data. Holt designed a calculator application to show the effects of a new policy, income-based repayment for federal student loans, which exposed previously unknown windfall effects of the program that were published in a frequently referenced paper he co-authored. He also helped create the first-ever database of publicly funded pre-K at the school district level. His estimates for the costs of alternative education proposals, including universal pre-K in the U.S., have also been widely cited. Holt’s work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Fox Business, Bloomberg.com, Time.com, The Huffington Post, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Ed. Before New America, Alex studied and lived in Amman, Jordan. He graduated from The George Washington University with a B.A. in political communication.