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Writing and Research
Quoted in: Education Week, September 2007, "School Boards’ Effect on Student Learning Gets New Attention" by Debra Viadero, September 26, 2007 [ .pdf version ]
Reflection, "Harvard, Chicago, and Teaching (or: “Why being a Harvard TF makes me appreciate the University of Chicago”) (September 2007)
2007. "Charter law and charter operation: Re-examining the charter school marketplace," with Kenneth K. Wong, in Charter School Outcomes, Mark Berends, Matthew G. Springer, & Herbert J. Walberg, eds. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Dissertation & Related Research on Rape and Sexual Assault
Rape: Political, legal, and psychological perspectives. (Committee: Jennifer Hochschild, Steven Pinker, Jon Hanson, David Rosenberg)
2007. Rape and the Politics of Reaction. Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 13-15, 2007 Chicago, IL. Poster presented in 2006 at the Inequality Summer Institute, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Completed book manuscript with Prof. Douglas Kriner at Boston University on inequality, U.S. war casualties, and the consequences for American democracy. [ Under review ]
"Iraq Casualties and the 2006 Senate Elections," with Douglas Kriner. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 32 (4): 507-530.
“The Casualty Gap: Inequality and U.S. Casualties from WWII to Iraq,” Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 13-15, 2007 Chicago, IL.
“The Lingering Costs of War: Local Casualties and Political Engagement,” Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 13-15, 2007 Chicago, IL.
Reflection, "Harvard, Chicago, and Teaching (or: “Why being a Harvard TF makes me appreciate the University of Chicago”) (September 2007)
Reflection, Unpublished: "Still Hurdling After All These Years" (February 2007)
Op-Ed, Unpublished: "Another Detroit?" (January 2007)
Op-Ed, Unpublished: "Russia Redux" (January 2007)
Reflection, Unpublished, "Reflection on the Feast of St. Francis Xavier" (12/3/2006)
September 2007. "Education Mayors & Big City School Boards: New Directions, New Evidence," with Kenneth Wong. Paper prepared for the 2007 Iowa School Boards Foundation Symposium, School Board Research: Main Lines of Inquiry. Des Moines, Iowa on Sept. 14-15, 2007.
April 2006. "Mayors Improving Student Achievement: Evidence from a national achievement and governance database," with Kenneth Wong. Paper prepared for the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Midwestern Political Science Association, April 20-23, 2006, Chicago IL.
April 2006. "When Mayors Use School Choice as a Reform Strategy," with Kenneth K. Wong and Lauren M. Pachucki. Paper prepared for the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 7- 11, 2006, San Francisco, CA.
October 2005. "Mayors and Urban Schools," Presentation (with Kenneth K. Wong) to the Los Angeles City Council Joint Commission on LAUSD Governance
October 2005. "Big City Mayors and School Governance Reform." Slides to accompany presentation.
August 2005. "When School Districts Regain Control: The Political Economy of State Takeover of Local Schools and Its Withdrawal," with Kenneth K. Wong and Warren E. Langevin. Paper presented at the 100th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (Chicago, IL).
2003. "Political Incentives and Mayoral Takeover of Urban School Districts." Paper presented at the 83rd annual meeting of the American Educational Research Assoc. (Chicago, IL).
The Education Mayor: Improving America's Schools, (book with Kenneth K. Wong, Dorothea Anagnostopoulos, & Stacey Rutledge). Forthcoming 2007 from Georgetown Press, Washington, D.C.
Co-authored book chapter:
“When mayors lead urban schools: Assessing the effects of mayoral takeover,” with Kenneth K. Wong, in Howell, W.G., ed. (2005). Besieged: School Boards and the Future of Education Politics. Washington, D.C.: Brookings.
Co-authored article
“Measuring the Effectiveness of City and State Takeover as a School Reform Strategy,” with Kenneth K. Wong. (2003). Peabody Journal of Education, 78 (4): 89-119.
Co-authored journal article
“Big City Mayors and School Governance Reform: The Case of School District Takeover,” with Kenneth K. Wong. (2003). Peabody Journal of Education, 78 (1), 5-32.
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Co-authored article for practitioners:
“Does School District Takeover Work? Assessing the Effectiveness of City and State Takeover as a School Reform Strategy,” with Kenneth K. Wong. (2002). The State Education Standard, Spring 2002: 19-23.
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Co-authored literature synthesis:
“Can School District Takeover Work? Assessing the effectiveness of city and state takeover as a school reform strategy,” with Kenneth K. Wong. (2002). ERIC / CUE Digest. 2002.
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Single authored op-ed about my beloved St. Louis Cardinals and the national pastime:
“Baseball’s what we need,” Op-Ed in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, (2004). October 26, 2004.
Co-authored book chapter:
“Politics and Religion,” with Russell Muirhead, Nancy L. Rosenblum, and Daniel Schlozman, in Sabato, Larry, ed. (2005). Divided States of America - The Slash and Burn Politics of the 2004 Presidential Election. Longman.
2003. Not Only Faith-Based But Faith-Centered, Too: A Reexamination of Dry Bones Rattling and Social Capital Readings of Faith-Based Organizations. Paper presented at the 99th annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (Philadelphia, PA). August 28-31, 2003.
2005. Jared Shirk & Francis Shen, "The Role of Estimation in Budget Procedures: Baselines" (May 4, 2005) Briefing Paper No. 4 on Federal Budget Policy Prepared under the Supervision of Prof. Howell E. Jackson
2005. Adam Fletcher & Francis Shen, "War & Appropriations" (May 4, 2005) Briefing Paper No. 9 on Federal Budget Policy Prepared under the Supervision of Prof. Howell E. Jackson
2005. "School Finance Adequacy in the context of Educational Management Organizations," with Kenneth K. Wong. Paper prepared for the 2005 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Montreal, Canada, April 11-15, 2005.
Co-authored research brief:
“An Evaluation of Intradistrict Equity in Massachusetts,” with Martin R. West. (2003). Pioneer Institute for Public Policy, White Paper. September 2003.
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Single authored book chapter:
“Does Title I money matter? Federal compensatory funding and student achievement” in Efficiency, Accountability, and Equity Issues in Title I Schoolwide Program Implementation, edited by Kenneth K. Wong (2002). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Press.
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Co-authored article for practitioners:
“Can the states address equity and innovation? Rethinking the state’s fiscal role in public education,” with Kenneth K. Wong, in Government Finance Review, October 2001.
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Biographical Narrative: Doc and The Doctor
This is a narrative about my grandfathers, originally written in 2000 for my senior B.A. project in English at the University of Chicago. It is need of some revision, but I offer this first draft here. Because the file size is large, you have the option below of downloading/viewing the entire document or certain portions of the document.
Title Page (8 KB)
Complete Narrative (includes all but Title Page, 243 KB)
Preface (15 KB)
Introduction (15 KB)
Part 1: Story Telling (28 KB)
Part 3: Life in the Kerry Patch (32 KB)
Part 4: Doc and Larry Callanan (15 KB)
Part 5: Jerome and Mother Teresa (15 KB)
Part 7: Family and Friends: Jerome's Career Decisions (17 KB)
Part 8: Hero or Villain? (15 KB)
Part 9: Doc In Action: I Don't Give a Damn About Public Opinion (28 KB)
Part 11: Stopping to Think: One Final Look at Doc and Jerome (19 KB)
April 2007. "Assessing Charter School Performance in Illinois: A Pilot Study using Error-Band Analysis," with Kenneth K. Wong. National Center on School Choice, Working Paper.
August 2006. “Beyond Weak Law, Strong Law: Political compromise and legal constraints on charter school laws,” with Kenneth K. Wong. Paper prepared for the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, August 31 – September 3, 2006, Philadelphia, PA.
Co-authored article in edited volume:
“Political Economy of Charter School Funding Formulas: Exploring state-to-state variation in charter school funding formulas,” with Kenneth K. Wong. (2004). 2004 Yearbook of the American Education Finance Association, edited by Karen Demoss & Kenneth Wong, Sage Publications.
Co-authored article
“Politics of State-led Reform in Education: Market Competition and Electoral Dynamics,” with Kenneth K. Wong. (2002). in Educational Policy, 16 (1), March 2002.
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Co-authored op-ed:
“Lessons from state's charter schools,” with Kenneth K. Wong. (2001) in Grand Rapids Press, Jun 22, 2001, A7.
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Co-authored op-ed:
“No clear picture of charter schools,” with Kenneth K. Wong. (2001). in San Diego Union-Tribune, July 8, 2001.
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2003. Educational Resources and Achievement Gaps in High Poverty Schools: Findings from the Longitudinal Evaluation of School Change and Performance (LESCP) in Title I Schools (with Kenneth K. Wong & Stephen J. Meyer). Paper presented at the 83rd annual meeting of the American Educational Research Assoc. (Chicago, IL), and the Assoc. for Public Policy Analysis & Management Fall Research Conference (Dallas, TX).
2002. "Specification Uncertainty and Model Averaging in State Policy Innovation Research." Paper presented at the Third Annual Conference on State Politics and Policy (Tucscon, AZ), and at the 61st national conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, IL).
Archive of Quotes and Features
