B.S., (Environmental Economics) University of Wisconsin at Green Bay
M.S., (Educational Administration), University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
M.A., (Economics), Stanford University
Ph.D., Education (Interdisciplinary Studies), Stanford University
Scholarly Interests
School finance, equity, adequacy, and efficiency, especially the dynamics of state policy in promoting or undermining them. Institutional incentives. The strengths and weaknesses of market approaches to education. Performance accountability systems. Ecological and dynamic systems modeling of educational processes and outcomes.
Selected Publications
Financing Educational Systems: Policy and Practice (Co-Author) (Merrill/Prentice-Hall) (2008)
The Ecology of Educational Systems: Models, Tools and Cases for Improvisational Leadership (Co-Author) (Merrill/Prentice-Hall) (December 2004)
Risky Business: Private Management of Public Schools (Co-Author) (Economic Policy Institute) (1996)
In this time of globalization and high-speed communication, learning about other cultures and ways of life has become necessary to successful communication and international relations. Teachers College now has a new link to Chinese education thanks to a new center.
The Center on Chinese Education (CoCE) at Teachers College, established in July, is devoted to policy research, training, and dissemination on education in China, as well as to educational exchanges between the United States and China.
For anyone ever "sent downstairs" as a kid to tremble before the majesty of the throne, the group of future school leaders that Craig Richards was leading through exercises in Milbank Chapel one hot July morning last summer looked decidedly un-principal-like.
Joe Rogers, Jr. (M.A. '09) is using his policy skills and community organizing talents to mobilize key stakeholders around improving New York's public schools.
Running a school in New Orleans or pretty much anywhere in the post-Katrina South is challenging work. TC's "SPA NOLA" program readies people for the job