Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University
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Helen F. Ladd
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Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708-0312
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- Education
Ph.D. | Harvard University | 1974 |
MSc with distinction | London School of Economics | 1968 |
B.A. | Wellesley College | 1967 |
- Areas of Research
Education Policy and State & Local Public Finance
- Professional Experience / Employment History
- University of Amsterdam
- Visiting Research Scholar, Spring Term, 2009
- Duke University
- Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics
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- Professor of Economics, 1991- present
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- Professor of Public Policy Studies, 1986 - present
- University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Fulbright Scholar (Lecture/research) Economics Department, February-July 2002
- Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Fulbright Scholar (Lecture/research), February-July 1998
- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA
- Senior Fellow, September 1989-June 1990
- Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning, July 1981-September 1986
- Design School and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
- Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, 1980-1981
- Design School, Harvard University
- Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, 1978-1980
- Wellesley College
- Assistant Professor of Economics, Fall 1974-1977
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- Instructor in Economics, Spring term 1973
- Harvard University
- Teaching Fellow, Academic year 1973-1974
- Dartmouth College
- Instructor in Economics, Fall term 1971
- Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
Outstanding Service Award, Association for Education Finance and Policy, February, 2015
Outstanding University Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award, Duke University, 2012
Elected to the National Academy of Education, National Academy of Education, 2011
Member, National Academy of Education
Spencer Foundation Invited Lecture, Spencer Foundation Invited Lecture "Holding Schools Accountable Revisited." Award in recognition of excellence in education policy and management given jointly by the Spencer Foundation and the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, November 8, 2007
Spencer Foundation Lecture in Education Policy and Management, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Richard A. Stubbing Teacher Mentor Award, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, May 13, 2006
RAYMOND VERNON MEMORIAL PRIZE FOR THE BEST RESEARCH ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN JPAM, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Raymond Vernon prize, 2004
Aaron B. Wildavsky Award for Lifetime Scholarly Achievement in Public Budgeting, APSA's Association for Budgeting and Financial Management, September, 2003
Edgar T. Thompson Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University, 2003
Steve Gold Award, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the National Tax Association, and the National Conference of State Legislatures in honor of Steve Gold for work in state and local public finance, October, 2002
Fulbright Grant to South Africa, spring 2002
Steven D. Gold Award, National Tax Association
The Steven D. Gold Award, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Fulbright Lecturer/Research Scholarship to South Africa, Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Fulbright grant to New Zealand, spring 1998
Howard Johnson Teaching Award, Duke University, 1994
Manuel Carballo Award for Excellence in Teaching, John F. Kennedy School of Government, June 1986
Non-Tenure Faculty Fellowship, Bunting Institute, 1981-1983
James L. Barr Memorial Award for Work in Applied Public Economics, 1980
Tax Institute of America Outstanding Dissertation Award, National Tax Association, 1974
Urban Public Finance Fellowship, Harvard Ford Foundation Grant, 1972-1973
Harvard Fellowship, 1969-1971
Edna V. Moffat Fellowship, 1967
Fulbright Grant to London, 1967-1968
Wellesley College Trustee Fellowship, 1967
Phi Beta Kappa (Junior year at Wellesley College), 1966
- Professional Service
- University Committee
- Member, Academic Council, 2004 - 2012, 1999-2001
- Member, Executive Committee of Academic Council, 2006-07
- Member, Committee on University Distinguished Professors, 2005-2007
- Member, Duke Rhodes Interview Committee, Marshall and Mitchell Scholarships, 2007
- Member, Search Committee for Dean of Arts and Sciences, October 1, 2003 - February 1, 2004
- Member, Duke Rhodes Interview Committee, Fall 2003
- Member, Executive Committee of Academic Council, 2000-2001, 1995-1996
- Member, Faculty Compensation Committee, 2000
- Member, Search Committee for Provost of Duke, 1998-99
- Member, Review committee for dean of the Law School, 1997
- Member, President's Advisory Committee on Resources (PACOR), 1996-1997
- Member, Search Committee for Chief Financial Officer, 1994
- Member, Provost's Academic Priorities Committee, 1991-1994
- Member, Executive Committee of the Graduate School, 1991-1993
- Member, Duke Rhodes Committee, 1987-1997
- Dept Officer
- Director of Graduate Studies, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, 2005-2006, 1998-2001, 1995-1997
- Associate Director, Sanford Institute of Public Policy, August 2002-June 2005
- Dept Committee
- Chair, Search Committee for the dean for the Sanford School, 2011 - 2012
- Member, MPP Admissions Committee, 2003 - 2011
- Member, Sanford Institute departmental committee on faculty hiring, 2007
- AHEC, Sanford Institute ad hoc executive committee, 2007
- Tenure review committee for William Darity, September, 2006 - November, 2006
- Chair, Search committee for two professors of the practice, 2005
- Chair, Tenure review committee for external candidate, Janet Currie, 2005
- Chair, Search committee for open rank position in social policy/child and family policy, Fall 2004
- Member, Search committee for new faculty member in philanthropy and public policy, Spring 2004-2005
- Chair, Tenure review committee for external candidate, Ariel Kalil, 2004
- Chair, Search committee for social policy position, 2003
- Member, Tenure review committee for Kate Whetten, Fall 2003
- Chair, Black Faculty Strategic Initiative committee in Public Policy Studies, 2003
- Member, Review Committee for Robert Korstad, 2001
- Member, Search Committee for Junior Position in PPS, 2000
- Member, Review committee for Joseph Lipscomb's promotion to full professor, 1998
- Member, Search committee for director of the Institute, 1997
- Member, Review committee for Leonard Beckum (PPS) and Carol Mansfield (NSOE), 1997
- Member, Promotions committee for Jim Leitzel in public policy, 1995
- Member, Promotions committee for Frederick Mayer in public policy, 1995
- Member, Search committee for assistant professor of public policy, 1994
- Univ Services
- Faculty member, Duke Univeristy Governor's Center summer program in Policy Analysis for state executives, 1988 and 1989
- Other
- Co-chair, Education Task Force, 2006 - present
- Co-editor for education policy and state and local finance, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2005 - 2011
- Member, Editorial board of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2003 - present
- Member, Research Advisory Board, Committee for Economic Development, 1998 - present
- President, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2011
- Faculty representative to Trustee subcommittee on Institutional Advancement, February 2009
- Member, MPP admissions committee, February 2009
- Member, committee on faculty hiring, February 2009
- Member, Ad Hoc Executive Committee (AHEC), February 2009
- Co-editor, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, February 2009
- Provost's Advisory Committee on Distinguished Professors, May 2008
- Member, External examiner for a Ph.D. Dissertation defense at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Nov. 2007
- Member, Member of the management team of the Center for the Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER)
- Member, NC Blue Ribbon Commission on Testing and Accountability. (Report to the State Board of Education scheduled for January 9, 2008.)
- Member of U.S. Department of Education Review Panel, October 2006
- Discussant at the conference titled, "What Do We Owe Each Other?", September 2006
- Member, Department of Housing and Urban Development advisory committee on Cityscape, 1994-1998
- Member, Advisory Committee for the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), 1990-1998
- Member, Board of the American Education Finance Association, 2004-2007
- Member, Peer review panel for Research on Education Finance, Leadership and Management, April 2004
- Panelist on educational leadership, Wallace Foundation, December 2004
- Member, Working Group on State Preschool Evaluation, 2003
- Expert member, OECD Territorial Review of the Greater Helsinki Region, October 2001
- Member, National Academy of Education and Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on Education Research, 2001-2003
- Member, Task Force on Restoring the American Common School Ideal, 2001
- Member, External review committee, Taubman center for public policy, Brown University, February 2000
- Member, Working Group on "Results-based Planning, Budgeting, Management, and Accountability Systems", 1995 - 1998
- Member, Advisory Council on Education Statistics, 1997-1999
- Co-chair, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Education Finance: Productivity, Adequacy, and Equity, 1996-1999
- Chair, external review committee of the Wellesley College economics department, September 1996
- Member, technical advisory group for the Urban Institute project, "Assessing of the New Federalism", 1996-1998
- Member, search committee for new executive director of the National Tax Association, 1995
- Member, search committee for new executive director of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 1995
- Member, external review committee to evaluate the Graduate School of Public Policy, Berkeley, CA, February 1995
- Consultant, Barents Group on Fiscal Federalism in Ukraine, May 1995
- Member, dissertation Award Committee of the Association of Policy Analysis and Management, 1994, 1995
- Member, External review committee to evaluate program in political economy, Williams College, April 1994
- Consultant, Environmental Protection Agency, 1994
- President, National Tax Association, 1993-1994
- Member, Governor Hunt's Task Force on Business Recruitment in North Carolina, 1993-1994
- Member, Consortium on Productivity in the Schools, 1992-1995
- Member, National Advisory Committee for the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois, 1992-1994
- First vice president, National Tax Association, 1992-1993
- second vice president, National Tax Association, 1991-1992
- Vice-president, Policy Council for the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 1990-1992
- Member, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, discipline review committee for Fulbright applications in economics, 1990-1992
- Member, Program committee and nominating committee of the National Tax Association, 1990
- Member, External review committee to evaluate Economics Department, Williams College, May 1990
- Member, North Carolina Academy of Sciences Peer Review Panel for the citing of a low-level radioactive waste facility, 1988
- Consultant, Environmental Protection Agency on the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Program, March-April 1988
- Member, Policy Council of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 1987-1991; 1992-1996
- Associate Editor, Regional Science and Urban Economics, 1987-1995
- Associate Editor, Evaluation Review, 1987-1989
- Participant, NBER Summer Institute in State and Local Public Finance, August 1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1992
- Gubernatorial Appointee, Massachusetts Special Commission Relative to the Current Local Aid Distribution Formula, 1985-1986
- Member, Editorial Board, Journal of the American Planning Association, 1985-1992
- Member, Technical Review Panel for U.S. Treasury study of federal-state local relations, 1985
- Member, Chairman's Economic Policy and Tax and Advisory Group, Joint Committee on Taxation, Massachusetts Legislature, 1984
- Supervisor of teaching case, teaching case, "Financing Mass Transit in Philadelphia", 1984
- Member, Editorial Board, National Tax Journal, 1983-1992, 1993-1995
- Member, Editorial Board, Research on Urban Policy, 1983-1985
- Member, Massachusetts Local Aid Study Group, January 1983-1985
- Chair, Intergovernmental Relations Committee, National Tax Association - Tax Institute of America, 1983-1985
- Director, National Tax Association - Tax Institute of America, 1982-1984
- Consultant, Transportation financing project, Charles Riven Associates, 1982-1983
- Faculty Affiliate, IMPACT 2 1/2, A Collaborative University Effort to Monitor the Impacts of Proposition 2 1/2, 1981-1983
- Co-Chairperson, National Tax Association - Tax Institute of America, Long Range Planning Committee, 1980-1982
- Treasurer, American Economic Association Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, 1979-1982
- Lectures
- Invited Lectures:
- UNC Center for the Study of the American South Advance Women, October 15, 2013
- Bridging the Gap: Funding General Government and Public Education in Connecticut (Invitational Policy Seminar, Part 2), Hartford Connecticut, October 04, 2012
- Keynote address for Conference on “Improving Education through Accountability and Evaluation: Lessons from Around the World,” sponsored by the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, INVALSI, and the U, October 3-5, 2012
- Presidential Address to the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Washington D.C., November, 2011
- Keynote address to the Korean Association for Policy Studies, Seoul, Korea, June 2011. (Translated into Korean for the Association publication.), June 2011
- Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence Presidential address, APPAM annual meeting, Washington, D.C., 9 March 2011
- League of Women Voters in Orange County on Accountability, 2008
- Seminar presentation black white test score gap at Davidson, 2008
- Presentation of CALDER related research annual research meeting of the Institute of Education Sciences, 2007
- Presentation of research on high poverty schools and the distribution of teachers at the Harvard Achievement Gap Initiative Conference, 2007
- Various presentations and discussions with the media related to chapter with Francisco Riviera-Batiz on education policy in Puerto Rico and San Juan, 2007
- Presentation on the legacy of Richard Musgrave, Special Plenary Session in Memory of Richard Musgravee. 63rd Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance, University of Warwick, England 27-30, 2007
- Two presentations of joint work with Charles Clotfelter and Jacob Vigdor at the first annual public conference sponsored by CALDER, Washington, D.C., 2007
- Talk to the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development on accountability and teacher labor markets, Washington, D.C., 2007
- Presentation of paper on teacher credentials and student achievement at the high school level, APPAM anuual meetings, Washington, D.C., 2007
- Spencer Foundation Lecture, Washington, D.C., 2007
- Panelist, National Tax Association Meetings session with previous winners of the NTA dissertation award, Columbus, Ohio, 2007
- Seminar presentation of paper on teacher credentials and student achievement at the high school level, Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 2007
- Presentation on the importance of teacher credentials,, Education Trust, 2007
- Seminar at the University of Amsterdam on Teacher Credentials and Student Achievement, 2007
- Comments on the contributions of Richard Musgrave, National Tax Association May meeting, Washington, D.C., 2007
- Comments on paper by Thomas Nechyba, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA, 2007
- Presentation on high poverty schools and the distribution of teachers and principals, UNC Conference on High Poverty Schooling in American, October 2006
- Presentation on charter schools in North Carolina., Charter School Conference at Vanderbilt University, September 2006
- Presentation on how and why teacher credentials matter for student achievement, Economics of Education-International Conference, Dijon, France, July, 2006
- Presentation on PhD and Undergraduate Programs in Public Policy, Annual Summer APPAM Meeting in Park City, UT, June 2006
- Presentation on teacher labor markets in developed countries, Princeton University, April 2006
- Lecture on race and charter schools, Brown University, February 2006
- Presentation on charter schools, Institute of Education, University of London, England, November 2006
- Presentation on how and why teacher credentials matter for student achievement, Labour Economics Seminar, Oxford University, November 2006
- Invited lecture on accountability, International Forum on Accountability in Education, Mexico City, October 2005
- Keynote presentation: Building Common Ground: Towards A "Sound Basic Education" in NC: Implications for Research & Action, conference, School Finance in an International Prespective, University of North Carolina, April 2005
- Monore-Paine Distinguished Lecture, Truman School, University of Missouri, February 2005
- Invited Lecture, Askwith Education Forum at Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Mass., February 2005
- Invited public lecture, University of Maryland Baltimore County, November 2004
- Presentation on charter school performance, Committee on Education, National Academy of Sciences, November 2004
- Presentation on Elusive Equity, World Bank, October 2004
- Invited expert on charter schools, WUNC, The State of Things radio program, September 2004
- Presentation, Kaufman Foundation, June 2004
- Presentation at Brown vs. Board of Education, Conversations across Generations. Hillside High School, Durham, NC, April 2004
- Presentation of policy brief on accountability in North Carolina to the New York Symposium on School Finance and Organizational Structure, New York State, March 2004
- Presentation on Education and Growth, Committtee on Economic Development,Washington, D.C., October 2003
- Speaker - Minnesota Economics Association, Minneapolis, MN, October, 2003
- Acceptance Speech for Wildavsky Award for Lifetime Achievement in Public Finance and Budgeting, Washington, D.C., September, 2003
- Testimony on school vouchers, hearing on Alternative Schools and Educational Reform in theDistrict of Columbia, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, May, 2003
- Presentation to Education Writers' Association on School Finance, Chcago, IL, April, 2003
- Respondent, Joseph D. Moore Lecture, N.C.State, October 2003
- Presentation to National Academy of Sciences Panel on Education Research, June 2003
- Briefing to the U.S.Commission on Civil Rights, June, 2003
- Presentation on No Child Left Behind, CED Research Advisory Board, 2003
- School Reform in South Africa, Wellesley College, November 2002
- Presentation of paper on school vouchers, New York Law School, October 2002
- Keynote speaker, conference for graduate students in economics, three Western Cape universities, April 2002
- presentation to senior management, Stellenbosch and Cape Town Universities, June 2002
- Seminar presentation, University of Florida, Department of Economics, November 2001
- Jerry Miller lecture on school accountability, Maxwell School, Syracuse University, November 2001
- Seminar presentation, Duke Seminar on Globalization Equity and Democratic Governance, September 2001
- Speaker on school choice, Institute of Michigan School Superintendents, June 2001
- Presentation on residential mobility programs, John Locke Foundation, April 2001
- Presentation, UNESCO seminar, Paris, France, March 2001
- Presentation on School Choice in New Zealand, MDRC, New York City, March 2001
- Keynote speaker on accountability, North Carolina State Board of Education, September 2001
- Presenter and participant in the U.S. Secretary of Education's Forum on Research and Value-Added Assessment Data, Wednesday, December 5, 2000
- National Academy of Education retreat, Washington, D.C., October 24 & 25, 2013
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- Meetings:
- Member of expert faculty, Aspen Institute Seminar for Congressional education staffers, Washington, D.C., Jan 10 and 11, 2011
- The State of Things, Discussion of Charter Schools with Frank Stacio, March, 2011
- Presentation by Video Teleconference on Educational Accountability, Spitzer Transition Team and the Center for Fiscal Equity, New York, NY, December 18, 2006
- Member of Expert Panel on Community Development Block Grant Formula, National Academy of Sciences and GAO, Washington, D.C., December 2006
- Presentation of "The Effects of Accountability on Student Achievement.", Urban Institute for the US Department of Education in Washington, D.C., September 2006
- "Do School Accountability Systems Make it More Difficult for Low Performing Schools to Attract and Retain High Quality Teachers?", American Economic Association Meetings, Washington, DC, January 2003
- Panelist AEFA on Use of State Administrative Data for Education Research, March 2003
- Presentation of my introduction to international book on "Choosing Choice", AERA meetings in Chicago, April 2003
- "Balancing Public and Private Resources for Basic Education: School Fees in Post-apartheid Africa", Spencer Foundation Duke training seminar, February 2003
- Segregation and Resegregation in North Carolina's Public School Classrooms, Havard Civil Rights Project and the University of North Carolina School of Law, August 2002
- Who Teaches Whom?: Race and Distribution of Novice Teachers, American Economic Association Meetings, January 2002
- Presentation, Annual Meeting of Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Dallas, TX, November 2002
- "Financing Schools in Post Apartheid South Africa: Initial Steps Toward Fiscal Equity", International Conference on Education and Decentralization: African Experiences and Comparative Analysis", Johannesburg, June 2002
- Do School Accountability Systems Make it More Difficult for Low Performing Schools to Attract and Retain High Quality Teachers?, Southern Economic Association Meetings, 2002
- Participant in Rand working group on Measuring Value Added in education, October 2002
- Does Competition Improve Teaching and Learning: Evidence from New Zealand, AERA meetings, April 2001
- Discussant in two sessions and chair of another session at APPAM annual meetings, November 2001
- Participant in workshop, The Effects of School Finance Reform on Education in America's Cities, University of Illinois at Chicago, June 2001
- Moderator, NC Emerging Issues Forum, Raleigh, NC, February 2001
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- Talks:
- Presentations, New Zealand, May, 2014
- Invited presentation on school accountability in session on Poverty and Performance, International Perspectives, AERA meetings, San Francisco, April, 2014
- Presentation of Chapter 4 on Educational Goods, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, March, 2014
- NC education policy to the Fearrington Village Democratic Club, October 22, 2013
- Leveraging Matched Administrative Datasets to Improve Educational Practice and Lon-Run Life Outcomes: Toward Building a National Interdisciplinary Network, Northwestern, October 10, 2013
- Topic: Education and Poverty: Confronting the Issues, September 10, 2013
- From Birth to School: Early Childhood Initiatives in North Carolina, Annual Congress of the Institute for International Public Finance in Taormina, Italy, August 24, 2013
- Presentation of community college paper and discussant of papers on KIPP session, AEFP annual meetings, New Orleans, March, 2013
- NC Scholars Speak Out on education policy, held at the Sanford School, March, 2013
- Presentation of community college developmental education paper at the annual CALDER conference, February 22, 2013
- Presentation at Forum, Costs and Consequences: What's at Stake for Wake sponsored by the Coalition for Great Schools in Wake, Raleigh, October 16, 2010
- Invited speaker for Education Conference in Bahrain sponsored by the Crown Prince, with 500 delegates fromthe mud East and around the world, October, 2010
- Seminar presentation on school funding in the Netherlands at U.C. Davis sponsored by the economics and education departments, September, 2010
- Maastricht - Presentation of paper on Migrant Education in the Netherlands; also chaired a plenary session on Perspectives from the South, February 19, 2010
- SREE - Presentation of paper on Teacher Mobility, School Segregation, and Pay-Based Policies to Level the Playing Field, 27 July 2010
- AEFA - Presentation on Using Survey Data to Measure the Quality of School Principals, AEFA Meetings, Richmond Virginia, March 18-20, 2010
- Wake School Board - Media Session - Presentation on school segregation and the distribution of teachers in North Carolina to the media at an event sponsored by the Coalition for Great Wake County Schools, March 17, 2010
- Wake School Board - Presentation to the Wake County School Board on school segregation and the distribution of teachers in North Carolina, March 23, 2010
- Sanford Inaugural Event - Presentation on school segregation and the distribution of teachers in North Carolina as part of seminar presentation for a Sanford School inaugural event honoring Terry Sanford, April 23, 2010
- University of Amsterdam, TIER Working Group - Seminar presentation of paper on Teacher Mobility, School Segregation, and Pay-Based Poilcies to Level the Playing Field, Amsterdam, NL, May 21, 2010
- Discussant on paper by Ludwig and Jacob, Institute for Research on Poverty, May 29-30, 2008
- Discussant, National Academy of Sciences Workshop on value added modeling, Washington, D.C., Nov. 13-14, 2008
- Moderator of session, Campaign for Educational Equity, Teachers' College, New York, Nov. 24-25, 2008
- Presentation on teacher mobility, Shanker Institute, Washington, D.C., Nov. 20, 2008
- Presentation on teacher credentials, CALDER public meeting, Nov. 21, 2008
- Seminar presentations, University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, May 2005
- Seminar presentation on Teacher Quality and Student Achievement, Dean's working group on the Race Achievement Gap Initiative, Harvard Graduate School of Education, June 2004
- "Teacher Sorting Teacher Shopping, and the Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness", Duke University Child Development Seminar, February 2004
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- Conferences:
- Achievement as an Educational Good, and chair of session on teacher attrition, APPAM fall conference, November, 2013
- Presentation on High School credentials, AEFA Meetings, NYC, March 2008
- Presentation on Teacher Working Conditions, AEFA Meetings, Denver, April 2008
- Moderator, CALDER value added conference, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008
- Panelist at Education 08 Conference, Library of Congress, June 27, 2008
- Presentation on teacher working conditions, APPAM Meetings, Washington, D.C., November 2008
- Presentation of teacher working conditions, Southern Economics Association, Nov. 22, 2008
- Presentation of Research on Charter Schools, Inaugural Conference of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, December 2006
- Set up and moderated concurrent plenary session on No Child Left Behind, APPAM Fall Conference, Madison, WI, November 2006
- Presentation of paper, "Reflections on Equity, Adequacy, and Weighted Student Funding.", Annual Fall APPAM Conference, Madison, WI, November 2006
- Attended Brookings-Wharton Conference on Urban Policy, October 2006
- Presentation of paper, "How and Why Do Teacher Credentials Matter for Student Achievement?", American Education Finance Association, meeting held in Denver, Colorado, March 2006
- Conference on Education and Decentralization, January 13-14, 2005
- Participant as co-author in Brookings-CNE conference, San Juan Puerto Rico, May 2004
- Conference" The State's Fiscal Crisis: What Should the Federal Government Do?", Taubman Center of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, May, 2003
- Participated in telephone press conference on school vouchers, following Press Conference by Paul Peterson, June 2003
- Presentation for conference."The State's Fiscal Crisis: What Should The Federal Government Do?", May 29-30, 2003
- Discussant of paper on school vouchers by Caroline Hoxby at economics of education conference, Stockholm, Sweden, March 2003
- What Determines Segregation Levels in Public Schools?, Association for Public Policy and Management Annual Research Conference, November 2002
- Financing Schools in Post Apartheid South Africa: Initial Steps Toward Fiscal Equity, Paper presented at International Conference on Education and Decentralizastion: African Experiences and Comparative Analysis", Johannesburg, June 2002
- Participant in Duke University Conference on Incentives, on the Etics of Incentives, December 2001
- Discussant on paper by Joseph Cordes at conference to honor Dick Netzer, Wagner School, New York, October 2001
- Discussant, Brookings Institution conference on Accountability and Its Consequences for Students, April 2001
- Lunchtime speaker at National Conference on Choice sponsored by Rutgers University, January 2001
- Speaker at Conference on Privatization, Economic Policy Institute, January 2001
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- Presentations:
- Achievement as an Educational Good, Sanford faculty and graduate seminar, October, 2013
- Presentation of jointly authored paper on teacher mobility and teacher pay at the annual CALDER conference, Washington, DC, January 14, 2011
- Presentation on problems with using student test scores to measure teacher effectiveness to NC Race to the Top Teacher Effectiveness Work Group, Raleigh, NC, January 21, 2011
- Seminar presentation on Weighted Student Funding in the Netherlands, Georgetown Public Policy program, Washington, DC, January 28, 2011
- Two presentations to the Civil Rights Research Roundtable on Education and Equitable Access to Effective Teaching, sponsored by the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Social Policy and Law, Washington, DC, March 10-11, 2011
- North Carolina Policy Watch. Presentation on Charter Schools, March 30, 2011
- Presentation on Charter Schools to Duke School Research Partnership with the Durham Public Schools, April 25, 2011
- Discussant for papers on effects of the Great Recession on School District Finances, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, April 22, 2011
- Presentation of paper (co-authored with Clara Muschkin and Kenneth Dodge) on early childhood programs, Top Institute for Education Research, Amsterdam, May 2011,
- Keynote address "Administratvie Data, Research, and Policy Making: Insights from the U.S." Keynote address to the Korean Association for Policy Studies, Seoul, Korea, June 2011
- Discussant, Benefit Cost Conference, sponored by the Benefit Cost Association, Washington, D.C., October 2011
- Presentation of early childhood paper (co-authored with Clara Muschkin and Kenneth Dodge), APPAM fall meetings, Washington, D.C., November, 2011
- Moderator of panel sessions, Brookings Genome Project, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., November 8, 2011,
- Participated in National Association of Education annual meetings, Washington, D.C., October 28-29, 2011
- "Education and Poverty: Confronting the Evidence" Presidential address, APPAM annual meeting, Washington, D.C., November 4, 2011
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- Other:
- National Academy of Education retreat, Washington, D.C., October 24 & 25, 2013
- Publications (listed separately)
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