EPP School Choice Panel

Center for Education Research, Analysis, and Innovation
School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
PO Box 413
Milwaukee WI 53201
414-229-2716

October 25, 2000

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Resources On SchoolChoice

Attention EducationWriters:

On Oct 25, 2000, the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., will host adiscussion on the future of school choice efforts, including vouchers andcharter schools, with Bret Schundler, mayor of Jersey City, N.J., at 12 noon atthe foundation’s offices.

Five distinguishededucation researchers are available to offer other perspectives on vouchers andcharter schools.  All are fellows of the Education Policy Project, basedin the Center for Education Research, Analysis, and Innovation at theUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

They are:

1.   Walter C.Farrell Jr.

     Professor of Social Work, Public Health, and Public Policy

     Associate Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center

      FrankHawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, Kenan-Flagler Business School

      Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill

     (919) 962 - 8852

Walter C. Farrell, Jr.’s research interests include publiceducation and public school privatization, workforce diversity, and urbansocial issues. He has published more than 150 journal articles, book chapters,scholarly essays, and research/technical reports. His research and commentaryhave been cited in several national print and broadcast media, including TheWall Street Journal, The CBS Evening News, and The Today Show on NBC. 

2.   GaryOrfield

     Professor of Education & Social Policy

     Harvard University

     (617) 496-4824 or (617) 496-6367

Gary Orfield studies civil rights, urban policy,and minority opportunity. He is co-author of the books The Closing Door:Conservative Policy and Black Opportunity (with C. Ashkinaze, 1991) and DismantlingDesegregation (with S. Eaton, 1996) and coeditor, with Richard Elmore andBruce Fuller, of Who Chooses? Who Loses? Culture, Institutions, and theUnequal Effects of School Choice (1996). He is co-author of the report"Deepening Segregation in American Public Schools" (1997). Otherworks include studies of changing patterns of job opportunity, financial aidand college access, and civil rights enforcement in higher education

3.   AmyStuart Wells

     Professor of Educational Policy

     UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies

     (on leave)

     (212) 678-4042

Amy Stuart Wells is a sociologist of education whoseresearch and writing has focused on race and educational policies. She was theprincipal investigator of a two-and-a-half year study of charter school reformin ten school districts in California funded by the Ford Foundation and theAnnie E. Casey Foundation. Currently, she is conducting a study of adults whoattended racially mixed high schools funded by the Spencer Foundation. She isthe editor of Multiple Meanings of Charter School Reform: Lessons from TenCalifornia School Districts (forthcoming, Teachers College Press);co-author with Robert L. Crain of Stepping over the Color Line: AfricanAmerican Students in White Suburban Schools  (Yale University Press,1997);  author of Time to Choose: America at the Crossroads of SchoolChoice Policy (Hill & Wang 1993).

4.    KatrinaBulkley

     Assistant Professor of Educational Policy

     Rutgers Graduate School of Education

     New Brunswick, NJ

     (732) 932-7496 x150

Katrina Bulkley has studied charter school laws andthe implementation of charter schools in several states.  She is currentlyreviewing research on charter schools and studying for-profit managementcompanies and charter school, and also is taking part, with the Center for EducationPolicy Analysis at Rutgers University, in studies of the impact of standards,testing and professional development on instructional practices in NewJersey. 

5.    LuisHuerta

     research associate

     Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE)

     University of California at Berkley Graduate School f Education

     (510) 642-7223

Luis A. Huerta studies decentralization related toschool reform and school choice, as well as the impact of school financeinequities on implementing school reform. He is a contributing author to therecently released PACE report, titled School Choice: Abundant Hopes, ScareEvidence of Results (1999), and is also a contributing author to anupcoming book published by Harvard University Press, titled Inside Charter Schools:The Paradox of Radical Decentralization (B.Fuller, Editor).

The Education PolicyProject offers to the national discussion of education policy high qualityanalyses of school reform issues, and provides an analytical resource foreducators, journalists, citizens and others involved in public school reform.It is directed by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee education professor AlexMolnar.

You can visit the EducationPolicy Project on the Web at:
www.educationanalysis.org

You can direct furtherinquiries to Professor Alex Molnar at  (414) 229-4592.