School Accountability: Time for a New Approach
Helen F. Ladd is the Susan B. King Professor of Public Policy Studies and professor of economics at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Her current education research focuses on school accountability, education finance, teacher labor markets, and school choice. She has written numerous articles on charter schools and other forms of choice in North Carolina, self-governing schools and parental choice in New Zealand, market-based reforms in urban school districts, voucher programs, school reform in postApartheid South Africa, and school finance in the Netherlands. In addition, with colleagues at Duke University she has written extensively about school segregation, teacher labor markets, and teacher quality using longitudinal administrative data in North Carolina. She was president of the Association for Public Policy and Management in 2011 and, since its founding in 2008, has been co-chair of the national campaign for a Broader, Bolder Approach to Education (Boldapproach.org). Most recently, she spent 6 months as a visiting researcher at the University of Amsterdam examining the Netherlands’ long experience with parental choice, significant autonomy for individual schools, and weighted student funding.
She is the editor of Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education (Brookings Institution, 1996); co-editor of The Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy (2008) and the second edition (2015); and the co-author of books on school reform in New Zealand and South Africa. She graduated with a BA degree from Wellesley College in 1967, received her MA degree from the London School of Economics in 1968, and earned her PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1974.
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She is the editor of Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education (Brookings Institution, 1996); co-editor of The Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy (2008) and the second edition (2015); and the co-author of books on school reform in New Zealand and South Africa. She graduated with a BA degree from Wellesley College in 1967, received her MA degree from the London School of Economics in 1968, and earned her PhD in economics from Harvard University in 1974.
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