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Allan R. Odden

Professor, Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis
Co-Director, Consortium for Policy Research in Education
in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis
Consortium for Policy Research in Education --
Wisconsin Center for Education Research

653 Educational Sciences Building
1025 West Johnson Street
Madison, WI 53706
tel: (608) 263-4260
fax: (608) 263-6448

Email: arodden@facstaff.wisc.edu



Curriculum Vita

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Courses Currently Offered

Education

B.S. Brown University;
M.Div., Union Seminary;
M.A. Columbia University, Teachers College;
Ph.D. Columbia University.

Research and Scholarly Interests

Educational policy, education finance, teacher compensation, school-based management and school-based financing, educational resource allocation.

Selected Publications

2008  School Finance: A Policy Perspective, Fourth Edition. New York: McGraw Hill. With Lawrence Picus.  Available April 2007.

2008.  How To Create World Class Teacher Compensation.  St. Paul: Freeload Press.  With Marc Wallace.  Available April 2007.  Download for free at www.freeloadpress.com.

2007.  Moving from Good to Great in Wisconsin: Funding Schools Adequately and Doubling Student Performance.  Madison: University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Center for Education Research, Consortium for Policy Research in Education.  With Lawrence Picus, Sarah Archibald, Michael Goetz, Michelle Turner Mangan and Anabel Aportelo.  Available at http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/cpre/finance/WI%20March%201%202007%20Adequacy%20Report1.pdf.
2007   Paying for School Finance Adequacy with the National Average Expenditure Per Pupil, Working Paper 2.  Seattle: University of Washington, Evans School of Public Policy, Center on Reinventing Public Education, School Finance Redesign Project.  With Michael Goetz and Lawrence O. Picus. 

2005   Teacher Accountability Measures and Links to Learning. In L. Stiefel & A. E. Schwartz & R. Rubenstein & J. Zabel (Eds.).  Measuring School Performance and Efficiency: Implications for Practice and Research (pp. 137-161). Larchmont, NY: Eye on Education.  With Anthony Milanowski & Steve Kimball.

2004   Assessing Teacher, Classroom and School Effects.  Peabody Journal of Education, 79(4).  Special issue Guest Editor.

2002 Paying Teachers for What They Know and Do: New and Smarter Compensation Strategies to Improve Schools. 2nd Edition. Thousand, Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. With Carolyn Kelley.

2001 Reallocating Resources: How Schools Can Boost Student Achievement Without Spending More. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. With Sarah Archibald.

1999 School Based Financing. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Edited with Margaret Goertz. 1999 yearbook of the American Educational Finance Association.

1998  Financing Schools for High Performance: Strategies for Improving the Use of Educational Resources. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. With Carolyn Busch.


Professional Activities

Member of American Educational Research Association, American Educational Finance Association (President, 1979-80),

Consultant to several state legislatures, governors, departments of education, and local school districts.


Public Activities

Chair, Wisconsin School Finance Adequacy Study, April 2005 to present.

Member, Public Education Network Task Force on Teacher Quality. February 2001 to 2005..

Member, Governor's Blue Ribbon Commission on State-Local Partnerships for the 21st Century, April 2000 to January 2001. Appointed by Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson.

Member, Accountability Task Force, Los Angeles Unified School District, 1998 to 1999.

Member, Education Committee for the Total School Budget Project, Queensland, Australia, January 1998 to June 1999.

Special Court Master to the Remand Judge, Appellate Division, New Jersey, in the Abbott v. Burke school finance decision, August 1997 to April 1998.

Member, Governor's Task Force on Education. Appointed by ex-Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson. December 1995 to December 1997; Chairs the Standards and Assessment Sub-Committee.

Task Force on Funding Schools and Children's Services of the Finance Project, September 1995 to December 1997;

Carnegie Corporation Task Force on Learning in the Primary Grades, 1994 to 1996;

Member, National Research Council Committee on School Finance, Equality, Adequacy, & Productivity, May 1996 to September 1999.

Member, Minority Student Achievement Audit Task Force, Madison Public Schools, October 1997 to August 1998.

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