Education Policy and State & Local Public Finance

Duke University

Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics

Professor of Economics, 1991- present

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

Instructor in Economics, Spring term 1973

Harvard University

Teaching Fellow, Academic year 1973-1974

Dartmouth College

Instructor in Economics, Fall term 1971

University Committee

Member, Academic Council, 2004 - present, 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

Member, MPP Admissions Committee, 2003 - present

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 - present

Member, Editorial board of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2003 - present

Member, Research Advisory Board, Committee for Economic Development, 1998 - present

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

Invited Lectures:

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