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Jay P. Greene, Ph.D.
Endowed Chair and Head of the Department of Education Reform


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201 Graduate Education Building
Department of Education Reform
College of Education and Health Professions
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: (479) 575-3162
FAX: (479) 575-3196
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Jay P. Greene is endowed chair and head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Greene conducts research and writes about education policy, including topics such as school choice, high school graduation rates, accountability, and special education.

His research was cited four times in the Supreme Court's opinions in the landmark Zelman v. Simmons-Harris case on school vouchers. His articles have appeared in policy journals, such as The Public Interest, City Journal, and Education Next, in academic journals, such as The Georgetown Public Policy Review, Education and Urban Society, and The British Journal of Political Science, as well as in major newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. Jay Greene is the author of Education Myths (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).

Greene has been a professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Houston. He received his B.A. in history from Tufts University in 1988 and his Ph.D. from the Government Department at Harvard University in 1995. He lives with his wife and three children in Fayetteville, AR.


DEGREES

Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts,
  • Ph.D. in Political Science in June 1995
  • A.M. in Political Science in November 1991
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts,
  • B.A. in History, Summa Cum Laude in May, 1988, Phi Beta Kappa 1987

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

EMPLOYMENT
  • University of Arkansas, Endowed Chair and Head of the Department of Education Reform, August 2005 - present
  • The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Senior Fellow, January 2000 - August 2005
  • University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor, July 1997 - May 2001
  • University of Houston, Assistant Professor, July 1994 - July 1997
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
  • Research Award, College of Education and Health Professions, University of Arkansas, 2008
  • Presidential Appointment as a Trustee for the James Madison Memorial Foundation, 2003
  • Distinguished Teaching Award, Harvard University, 1994
  • Mellon Dissertation Completion Grant, 1993
  • Harvard MacArthur Fellowship, 1991-92
  • Marshall Scholarship, 1988 - 90 (declined)
  • Truman Scholarship, 1986 - 90
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Younger Scholars Research Grant, 1987
  • Truman Library Research Grant, 1987
  • National Merit Scholarship, 1984 - 88

PUBLICATIONS

BOOK
  • Education Myths, with Greg Forster and Marcus A. Winters, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005.

EDITING

  • Guest Editor, Peabody Journal of Education, Volume 82, Issue 4, 2007.
  • Contributing Editor, Education Next, 2001 - Present.
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS
  • "Can Judges Improve Academic Achievement?" with Julie Trivitt, Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 83, Issue 2, 2008.
  • "Proximity and Power," with Jonathan Butcher, The American, May 8, 2008.
  • "Adding Up to Failure," with Catherine Shock, The City Journal, Winter 2008, p. 6.
  • "Fixing Special Education," (for the paper as presented at the 2006 D.E.R. Conference, visit http://www.uark.edu/ua/der/Research/Peabody/Greene.pdf), Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 82, No. 4, 2007.
  • “Introduction to the Special Issue on the Single Best Idea for Improving K-12 Education,” (for the paper as presented at the 2006 D.E.R. Conference, visit http://www.uark.edu/ua/der/Research/Peabody/Greene.pdf), Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 82, No. 4, 2007.
  • “The Odd Couple,” Education Next, Fall 2007.
  • “An Evaluation of the Effect of DC's Voucher Program on Public School Achievement and Racial Integration After One Year,” with Marcus A. Winters, Catholic Education, Vol. 11, No. 1, September 2007.
  • “Fourscore and seven manatees ago,” Brian Kisida and Jonathan Butcher, City Journal, Vol. 17 No. 2, July 2007.
  • “Out-in-Left-Field Trips,” Matthew Carr and Marc Holley, City Journal, Vol. 17, No. 2, Spring 2007.
  • “Debunking a special education myth,” with Marcus A. Winters, Education Next, Spring 2007.
  • “Do Funding Systems Create a Perverse Incentive to Place Students in Special Education? Yes,” in Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Special Education, 3rd edition, edited by Mary Ann Byrnes, December 2006.
  • “Milton Friedman, Vouchers, and Civic Values,” in Liberty and Learning: Milton Friedman's Voucher Idea at Fifty, edited by Robert C. Enlow and Lenore T. Ealy, The Cato Institute, 2006.
  • “Education Myths,” The American Enterprise, July/August 2006.
  • “The Effect of Residential School Choice on Public High School Graduation Rates,” Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 81, Issue 1, 2006.
  • “A 'Comprehensive' Problem,” Education Next, Winter 2006.
  • “Buckets Into the Sea: Why Philanthropy Isn’t Changing Schools, and How it Could,” in the Best of Intentions, edited by Frederick M. Hess, Harvard Education Press, 2005.
  • “Choosing Integration,” in School Choice and Diversity: What the Evidence Says, edited by Janelle T. Scott, Teachers College Press, 2005.
  • “Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the United States,” with Greg Forster, Texas Education Review, Winter 2003-4.
  • “The GED Myth,” Texas Education Review, Summer 2002.
  • “The Business Model: Value added analysis is a crucial tool in the accountability toolbox despite its flaws,” Education Next, Summer 2002.
  • “GEDs Arent Worth the Paper Theyre Printed On,” City Journal, volume 12, number 1, Winter, 2002.
  • “The Surprising Consensus on School Choice,” The Public Interest, number 144, Summer 2001.
  • “Do Students Learn More Where Parents Have More Educational Choices?,” The Journal of Private Enterprise, volume 16, number 2, Spring 2001.
  • “The Texas School Miracle is for Real,” City Journal, Summer 2000.
  • “Should Public Discussion of Political Science Research be Controlled? Why Interest Group Recommendations on the Proper Procedures for Reporting Research Should be Treated with Skepticism,” with Paul E. Peterson, PS: Political Science and Politics, volume 33, number 2, June 2000.
  • “If the Peer Review Attack Fails, Attack Something Else,” Paul E. Peterson, PS: Political Science and Politics, volume 33, number 2, June 2000.
  • “Integration Where It Counts,” Texas Education Review, volume 1, number 1, Spring 2000.
  • “Review of Presidential-Congressional Relations: Policy and Time Approaches by Steven A. Shull,” Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Number 1, pp. 171-2, Spring, 1999.
  • “Race Relations and Central City Schools,” with Paul E. Peterson, Brookings Review, Spring 1988, pp. 33-37.
  • “School Choice: What Does the Evidence Say?,” in Vouchers for School Choice: Challenge or Opportunity? An American Jewish Reappraisal. 1998. Marshall J. Breger and David M. Gordis, editors, Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies: Brookline, MA,
  • “The Effectiveness of School Choice in Milwaukee,” with Paul E. Peterson. Jiangtao Du, Leesa Boeger, and Curtis Frazier, The Madison Review, Winter 1997.
  • “School Choice in Milwaukee,” with Paul E. Peterson and Chad Noyes, Public Interest, September, 1996.
  • “Review of The Speaker edited by Ronald M. Peters, Jr.,” Journal of Legislative Studies, v. 2, no. 2, Summer 1996.
  • “Term Limits: A Measure of Our Ignorance,” Social Science Quarterly, v. 76 no. 4, December, 1995.
  • “Forecasting Follies,” American Prospect, no. 15, Fall, 1993.
  • “Forewarned Before Forecast: Presidential Election Forecasting Models and the 1992 Election,” PS: Political Science and Politics, Volume 26, Number 1, March, 1993.
REPORTS and WORKING PAPERS
OP-EDS

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

Presentations to Governmental Organizations
  • United States Senate
  • United States Department of Education
  • National Center for Education Statistics
  • Florida Legislature
  • Texas Legislature
  • Colorado Legislature
  • New Mexico Legislature

Presentations to Professional Associations

  • American Political Science Association
  • American Education Research Association
  • Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
  • Midwest Political Science Association

Presentations at Universities and Think-Tanks

  • Harvard University
  • University of Virginia
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  • Florida State University
  • University of Texas
  • Bates College
  • Trinity College
  • Brookings Institute
  • American Enterprise Institute
  • Heritage Foundation
  • Cato Institute

Presentations to Civic Organizations

  • Jewish Theological Seminary
  • Kiwanis
  • National Council of Jewish Women
  • Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options
  • Focus on the Family
 
 
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