Charles Ogundimu, Ph.D.
Residency Director and Adjunct Professor in the NYU Teacher Residency
Teaching and Learning
Charles Ogundimu, PhD, is a residency director and an adjunct professor in the NYU Teacher Residency Program (NYU TR) at Steinhardt. Dr. Ogundimu’s research interests include teacher/principal preparation, urban and mathematics education, meta-analyses and systematic reviews, economics of education, teacher labor markets, and learning sciences. He was a high school principal prior to joining the NYU faculty. He earned his MPhil/PhD in economics and education from Columbia University. His current projects include systematic reviews and meta-analyses research on K-12 mathematics teaching and learning with marginalized populations.
Selected Publications
Ogundimu, C. & Obi, M. (2025, Book Review). Accountability and culture of school teachers and principals by Zehava Rosenblatt & Theo Wubbels. Teachers College Record - Book Review.
Ogundimu, C. (2025, Book Review). The buying and selling of American education: Reimagining a system of schools for all children by Susan Tave Zelman and Margaret Erlandson Sorensen. Teachers College Record - Book Review.
Ogundimu, C. (2022). Teacher retention and COVID-19: Did the pandemic complicate
matters? The case of NYC public schools. NERA Conference Proceedings 2022. OpenCommons@UConn https://opencommons.uconn.edu/nera-2022.
Ogundimu, C. (2021, Book Review). Global perspectives on issues and solutions in urban education by Petra A. Robinson, Ayana Allen-Handy, Amber Bryant, Chance W. Lewis. Teachers College Record - Book Review.
Ogundimu, C. (2017). Closing the achievement gap: Start with teacher retention. 28th Annual National Youth Advocacy & Resilience (NYAR) Conference Proceedings, (March 5-8, 2017), Savannah, GA.
Ogundimu, C. (2014). Does the mode of entry into teaching matter in teacher retention? A discrete-time survival analysis modeling of New York City public school teachers. Columbia University ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.