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Teachers College, Columbia University
Teachers College
Columbia University
The Campaign for Educational Equity
The Campaign for Educational Equity
Fall 2005 Symposium on the “Social Costs of Inadequate Education”
Fall 2005 Symposium on the “Social Costs of Inadequate Education”

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October 24th and 25th at  Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University

Henry M. Levin


Teachers College, Columbia University

Presentation Topic:

  • Remakrs on the Social Costs of Inadequate Education [Summary to be posted soon]

Henry M. Levin is the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and Director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education, a non-partisan entity <http://www.ncspe.org>.  He is also the David Jacks Professor of Higher Education and Economics, Emeritus, at Stanford University where he served from 1968-99 after working as an economist at the Brookings Institution in Washington. From 1978-84 he was the Director of the Institute for Research on Educational Finance at Stanford, a federally-funded R. & D. Center. From 1986-2000 Levin served as the Director of the Accelerated Schools Project www.acceleratedschools.net, a national school reform initiative for accelerating the education of at-risk youngsters encompassing about 1,000 schools in 41 states. 

Levin is a specialist in the economics of education and human resources and has published 20 books and about 300 articles on these and related subjects. At present he is doing research on educational reform, educational vouchers, cost-effectiveness analysis, financing educational equity, and educational privatization. His most recent books are:

  • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Methods and Applications (Sage Publications, 2000); Privatizing Education (Westview, 2001); Cost-Effectiveness and Educational Policy (Eye on Education, 2002); and Readings in the Economics of Higher Education (Elgar, 2003).

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