Welcome to my webpage. I am an Associate Professor of Public Policy at UMBC and a Research Fellow at the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans at Tulane University. My research focuses on the implementation and effects of market-based policy in public education. I am particularly interested in the equity effects on low-income families, minorities, and girls.
I am currently living and working in the City of Baltimore. Much of my research focuses on New Orleans, a city I love that lies at the center of the national and international debates over market-based school reform. My current projects include identifying obstacles to college access for minority and low-income high school grads, measuring the equity effects of school choice lotteries, and learning how charter schools influence the supply and quality of public education.
Please click the mail button above to get in touch and visit my latest working papers...
How Have New Orleans' Charter-based School Reforms Affected Pre-Kindergarten?
with Lindsay Bell Weixler and Alica Gerry
My Edweek blog on the report:
Charter Schools, Pre-K, and the Question of Coordination
Did the Teachers Dismissed after Hurricane Katrina Return to Public Education?
with Nathan Barrett and Katharine O. Strunk
When Tenure Ends: Teacher Turnover in Response to Policy Changes in Louisiana
with Nathan Barrett and Katharine O. Strunk
How do Schools Respond to State Policies on Teacher Evaluation?
with Julie Marsh, Susan Bush-Mecenas, Katharine O. Strunk, and Alice Huguet
Match or Mismatch? Automatic Admissions and College Preferences of Low- and High-Income Students
with Kalena E. Cortes
What's in Your Portfolio?: How Parents Rank Traditional Public, Private, and Charter Schools in
Post-Katrina New Orleans’ Citywide System of School Choice
with Joshua M. Cowen & Jason P. Imbrogno
Can Admissions Percent Plans Lead to Better Collegiate Fit for Minority Students?
with Kalena E. Cortes
I am currently living and working in the City of Baltimore. Much of my research focuses on New Orleans, a city I love that lies at the center of the national and international debates over market-based school reform. My current projects include identifying obstacles to college access for minority and low-income high school grads, measuring the equity effects of school choice lotteries, and learning how charter schools influence the supply and quality of public education.
Please click the mail button above to get in touch and visit my latest working papers...
How Have New Orleans' Charter-based School Reforms Affected Pre-Kindergarten?
with Lindsay Bell Weixler and Alica Gerry
My Edweek blog on the report:
Charter Schools, Pre-K, and the Question of Coordination
Did the Teachers Dismissed after Hurricane Katrina Return to Public Education?
with Nathan Barrett and Katharine O. Strunk
When Tenure Ends: Teacher Turnover in Response to Policy Changes in Louisiana
with Nathan Barrett and Katharine O. Strunk
How do Schools Respond to State Policies on Teacher Evaluation?
with Julie Marsh, Susan Bush-Mecenas, Katharine O. Strunk, and Alice Huguet
Match or Mismatch? Automatic Admissions and College Preferences of Low- and High-Income Students
with Kalena E. Cortes
What's in Your Portfolio?: How Parents Rank Traditional Public, Private, and Charter Schools in
Post-Katrina New Orleans’ Citywide System of School Choice
with Joshua M. Cowen & Jason P. Imbrogno
Can Admissions Percent Plans Lead to Better Collegiate Fit for Minority Students?
with Kalena E. Cortes
