Section Links

• Research Biography
• Degrees
• Key Professional Appointments
• Activities & Honors
• Grants
• Selected Publications
• Selected Links

Research Biography

Degrees

• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Education Policy, National Academy of Education, 2005
• Post-Doctoral Fellow, Education Policy, Advanced Studies Program, Brown University, 2002
• Ph.D., Education Policy and Social Analysis, Michigan State University, 1999
• M.A., History, Michigan State University, 1992
• B.S., History, Northern Michigan University (Summa Cum Laude), 1989

Key Professional Appointments

• Associate Professor, Educational Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, 2007--
• Assistant Professor, Educational Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, 2004--
• Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, Iowa State University, 1999--

Activities & Honors

• Faculty Affiliate, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, 2008- present
• Member, Spencer Foundation, Small Research Grants Advisory Committee, 2008- present
• Faculty Fellow, Hardie Strategic Initiatives Program, 2008-2009
• Fellow, Forum on the Future of Public Education, 2007- present
• Distinguished Scholar, College of Education, 2007-2008
• Member, Policy Task Force, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, 2006- present
• Member, Think Tank Review Panel, Educational Policy Research Unit, Education Policy Studies Laboratory, Arizona State University, 2006- present
• Editorial Board Member, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2006- present
• EPRU/EPIC Fellow, Education and the Public Interest Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2006- present
• Faculty Fellow, College of Education, Bureau of Educational Research, 2006-2007
• Review Panel Member, Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation, 2006
• Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students, (rated “outstanding,” Spring, 2005; Spring 2007), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004- present
• Member, American Sociological Association, 2003- present
• Member, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2003- present
• Member, Urban Affairs Association, 2003- present
• Member, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2003- present
• Member, Politics of Education Association, 2001- present
• Member, Comparative and International Education Society, 1998- present

Grants

• Principal Investigator, Hardie Faculty Fellow: The Social Geography of Universal Choice: Competition, Charter Schools and Access in Post-Katrina New Orleans, Bureau of Educational Research, 2008
• Co-Principal Investigator, School Choice and Educational Reform in New Orleans, Campus Research Board, 2007
• Principal Investigator, The Social Geography of School Choice in Segregated Urban Areas, The Spencer Foundation (National Academy of Education), 2005
• Co-Principal Investigator, School Choice Policies and Outcomes Around the Globe: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Limits to Choice in Liberal Democracies, The Spencer Foundation, 2005
• Principal Investigator, Adversaries or Allies: Do voucher programs increase competitive or cooperative strategies between public, private, and charter schools?, Bureau of Educational Research, 2005
• Co-Principal Investigator, A New Look at School Type, Mathematics Achievement and Equity, U.S. Department of Education, 2005
• Co-Principal Investigator, School Choice Policies and Outcomes Around the Globe: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Limits to Choice in Liberal Democracies, International Program Studies (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation), 2005
• Principal Investigator, Substantive and Symbolic Innovation in Competition-Based School Reform, Campus Research Board, 2005
• Principal Investigator, Marketing Schools: Structuring incentives for innovation in educational production and promotion, The Spencer Foundation (Brown University), 2003

Selected Publications

• Lubienski, C., Gulosino, C., & Weitzel, P. (2009). School Choice and Competitive Incentives: Mapping the Distribution of Educational Opportunities across Local Education Markets. American Journal of Education, 115(4), 601-647. More about this publication...
• Lubienski, C. (2009). Do Quasi-Markets Foster Innovation in Education? A Comparative Perspective. (Education Working Paper No. 25). Paris: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. More about this publication...
• Lubienski, C., Weitzel, P., & Lubienski, S.T.  (2009).  Is There a “Consensus” on School Choice and Achievement?  Advocacy Research and the Emerging Political Economy of Knowledge Production.  Educational Policy, 23 (1), 161-193. More about this publication...
• Lubienski, C., Crane, C. C., & Lubienski, S. T. (2008, May). What do we know about school effectiveness? Academic Gains in a Value-Added Analysis of Public and Private Schools. Phi Delta Kappan, 89(9), 689-695.
• Feinberg, W., & Lubienski, C. (Eds.). (2008).  School choice policies and outcomes: Empirical and philosophical perspectives. Albany: State University of New York Press. More about this publication...

Selected Links

• Abbreviated C.V.
• Study (w/ Sarah Lubienski) of NAEP mathematics achievement in charter, private, and public schools
• "Public-School Students Score Well in Math in Large-Scale Government Study"
• Response to Peterson & Llaudet's “On the Public-Private School Achievement Debate”
• NAEP analysis project w/ Sarah Theule Lubienski
• Institute of Government and Public Affairs
• Forum on the Future of Public Education
• Measuring Markets (UK)
• National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education
• Education and the Public Interest Center (Colorado) & Education Policy Research Unit (Arizona State)
• Education and the Public Interest Center, University of Colorado, Boulder
• Think Tank Review Project
• Education Policy Alliance
• Center for Tax and Budget Accountability