Corcoran, Sean P.

epicpolicy — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:41:05 -0600

Sean P. Corcoran is Assistant Professor of Educational Economics at the Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, and an affiliated faculty of the NYU Wagner School of Public Service. His research interests include state and local public finance, labor economics, the economics of education, and applied (micro) econometrics. Professor Corcoran is a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., is the principal investigator for major grants related to the political economy of school finance from both the Spencer and Russell Sage Foundations, and was recently a 2005-06 visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. His recent publications can be found in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, the Journal of Urban Economics, and the American Economic Review.

E-mail Sean P. Corcoran at: sean.corcoran@nyu.edu

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Scott, Janelle T.

epicpolicy — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:38:13 -0600

Dr. Janelle Scott is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education, and the Department of African American Studies. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley, with a degree in Political Science, and of UCLA, where she earned a Ph.D. in Education Policy. Her research centers on three related policy strands: the racial politics of public education, the politics of school choice, and the role of private sector actors in shaping public education. Her current research examines the relationship between philanthropy and school choice policy in urban communities. She is a 2008-2009 National Academy of Education-Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, and the editor of School choice and diversity: What the evidence says (2005 Teachers College Press).

E-mail Janelle T. Scott at: jtscott@berkeley.edu