Book Chapter, Books, and Reports
“Education Policies" (with Patrick McEwan). in Levine, Philip and David Zimmerman (ed.) Targeting Investments in Children: Fighting Poverty When Resources are Limited. National Bureau of Economic Research (in press)
“Economic Approaches to Teacher Recruitment and Retention” (with Jeannie Myung), in The International Encyclopedia of Education, 3rd Edition, edited by Barry McGaw, Penelope Peterson and Eva Baker, Elsevier (in press).
Leaders for California’s Schools (with Jon Valant), Policy Analysis for California Education policy brief, 2009.
The Development of a Teacher Salary Parcel Tax: The Quality Teacher and Education Act in San Francisco (with Heather Hough), Policy Analysis for California Education Report, 2009.
Teacher Quality: Improving Teacher Quality and Distribution. (with Suzanne Wilson, Deborah Ball, Anthony Bryk, David Figio, Pamela Grossman, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Andrew Porter, and Judith Warren Little). National Academy of Education Policy White Paper Series. November 2008.
Alternative Routes to Teaching: Mapping the New Landscape of Teacher Education. (editor with Pamela Grossman). Harvard Education Press, 2008.
“Teacher Labor Markets and Teacher Labor Market Research," (with Tara Beteille) in Duncan, Greg, and Spillane, James (eds.) Teacher Quality: Broadening and Deepening the Debate, Northwestern University 2008.
Funding Student Learning: How to Align Education Resources with Student Learning Goals, as part of the National Working Group on Funding Student Learning with Jacob Adams, Christopher Cross, Christopher Edly Jr., James Guthrie, Paul Hill, Michael Kirst, Goodwin Liu, David Monk, Allan Odden, and Joanne Weiss. School Finance Redesign Project, Center on Reinventing Public Education: University of Washington. October 2008.
Assessing Accomplished Teaching: Advanced-Level Certification Programs, National Academies Press (member of Nation Research Council committee) 2008.
Building an Information System to Support Continuous Improvement in California Public Schools. (with Tara Beteille and Maria Perez) Policy Analysis for California Education Policy Brief 08-2. 2008.
Learning What Works: Continuous Improvement in California's Education System. (with David Plank) Policy Analysis for California Education Policy Brief 08-4. 2008.
“Early Childhood & the Achievement Gap”in H.F. Ladd and E.B. Fiske (eds.) Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy, Routledge Press 2007.
Excellence in the Classroom. (editor with Cecilia Rouse and Anthony Shorris) Future of Children 17(1). 2007.
Getting Down to Facts: School Finance and Governance in California. Getting Down to Facts Project: Stanford University. (with Anthony Bryk and Eric Hannushek) 2007.
District Dollars: Painting a Picture of Revenues and Expenditures in California’s School Districts. Getting Down to Facts Project: Stanford University. (with Katharine Strunk and Jason Grissom) 2007. REPORT SUMMARY
A Review of State Teacher Policies: What are they, What are their effects, and What are their Implications for School Finance? Getting Down to Facts Project: Stanford University. (with Luke Miller) 2007.REPORT SUMMARY
California Principals’ Resources: Acquisition, Deployment, and Barriers, Getting Down to Facts Project: Stanford University. (with Bruce Fuller, Nicole Arshan, Allison Chen, and Susanna Yi) 2007.REPORT SUMMARY
Have Assessment-Based Accountability Reforms Influenced the Career Decisions of Teachers? Prepared as part of Title I, Part E, Section 1503 of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. (With Jesse Cunha) 2007.
A Federal Foray into Teacher Certification: Assessing the ‘Highly Qualified Teacher Provision of NCLB, Report prepared for The Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, Columbia University Symposium, "Examining America's Commitment to Closing Achievement Gaps NCLB and Its Alternatives" on November 13 and 14, 2006. (with Luke Miller) 2006.
“Analyzing
Determinants of the Matching of Public School Teachers to Jobs:
Estimating Compensating Differentials in Imperfect Labor Markets,”
National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 9878 with
Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, and James Wyckoff, 2006.
“Federal Financial Support for Adequacy and Equity in School Finance”
(with Michael Dannenberg) Prepared for the Rethinking Rodriguez
Conference, University of California, Berkeley. 2006.
Public Policy and Teacher Labor Markets: What We Know and Why It Matters. The Education Policy Center at Michigan State University. (with Michelle Reininger) 2004.
“Placing the Preparation and Recruitment of Teachers into a Labor Market Framework” in Frederick Hess (ed.) Procedings of the American Enterprise Institute Conference, A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom: Appraising Old Answers and New Ideas, November 2003 (with Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, and James Wyckoff) 2004..
“The Impact of Accountability Policies in Texas High Schools,” in Martin Carnoy, Richard Elmore and Leslie Santee Siskin (eds.), The New Accountability: High Schools and High-Stakes Testing. (with Martin Carnoy and Tiffany Smith) 2003.
“Understanding Teacher Labor Markets: Implications for Educational Equity,” in D. Monk and M. Plecki, eds., School Finance and Teacher Quality: Exploring the Connections, AEFA 2003 Yearbook. (with Donald Boyd, Hamilton Lankford, and James Wyckoff) 2003.
“Comments on, “Public School Finance and Urban School Policy: General versus Partial Equilibrium Analysis,” in William G. Gale and Janet Rothenberg Pack (eds.). Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs, 2003. The Brookings Institution: Washington, DC. p 176-180. 2003
“Teacher Compensation,” TIAA-CREF Investment Forum. March 2002.
“Teacher Quality: Its Enhancement and Potential for Improving Pupil Achievement, ” in David Monk, Margaret C. Wang and Herbert J. Walberg (eds.), Improving Educational Productivity. Information Age Publishing Inc: Greenich CT. 2001.
“Estimating Unmet Need for Child Care: Alternative Definitions and Analytic Tools." PACE Working Paper. 2001 (with Bruce Fuller).
“The Property Tax and Education Finance: Commentary, ” in Wallace E. Oates (ed.), Property Taxation and Local Government Finance: Essays in Honor of C. Lowell Harriss, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy: Cambridge MA. 2001. p236-241.
“Michigan’s Recent School Finance Reforms: A Preliminary Report,” 1994 Proceedings of the 87th Annual Conference of the National Tax Association: pp. 29-36. (with Paul N. Courant and Edward Gramlich).
“A Report on School Finance and Educational Reform in Michigan,” in Thomas A. Downes and William A. Testa (Eds.), Midwest Approaches to School Reform. Proceedings of Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Conference, October 26-27, 1994. (with Paul N. Courant and Edward Gramlich).