Douglas Lee Lauen

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Department of Public Policy
Abernethy Hall, CB#3435
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3435
(919) 843-5010
dlauen@unc.edu

Updated 4/30/2018 12:03:00 AM

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Chicago, 2006
M.A., Sociology, University of Chicago, 2003
Master in Public Policy (MPP), University of Chicago, 1997
B.A, English, with honors, Oberlin College, 1989

POSITIONS HELD
2013- Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2013- Adjunct Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
2006-2013 Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2005 Lecturer, University of Chicago
2002-2004 Research Associate, Data Research and Development Center, University of
Chicago
2000-2002 Research Analyst, Consortium on Chicago School Research, University of
Chicago
1997-2000 Research Associate, MPR Associates, Inc., Berkeley, CA

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Note: Alphabetical authorship marked with an asterisk.
Kozlowski, K., Lauen, D. (Forthcoming) “Understanding Teacher Pay for Performance:
Flawed Assumptions and Disappointing Results” Teachers College Record.
Lauen, D., Levy, B.L., Hedberg, E.C., (Forthcoming). “Methods for Examining the Effects of
School Poverty on Student Test Score Achievement,” Schneider, B., Handbook of the
Sociology of Education in the 21st Century
Lauen, D., Barrett, N., Fuller, S.F., Janda, L. (2017) “Early Colleges at Scale: Impacts on
Secondary and Postsecondary Outcomes.” American Journal of Education, 123(4): 523-
551.
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Jennings, J. and Lauen, D. (2016) “Accountability, Inequality, and Achievement: The Effects
of the No Child Left Behind Act on Multiple Measures of Student Learning.” Russell
Sage Journal of the Social Science. 2(5): 220-241.
Lauen, D. and Gaddis, M. (2016) “Accountability Pressure, Academic Standards, and
Educational Triage.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 38(1): 127-147.
Lauen, D., Fuller, B., Dauter, L. (2015) “Positioning Charter Schools in Los Angeles:
Diversity of Form and Homogeneity of Effects.” American Journal of Education 21(2):
213-239.
Gaddis, M. and Lauen, D. (2014) “School Accountability and the Black-White Test Score
Gap” Social Science Research. 44: 15-31.
Lauen, D. and Gaddis, M. (2013) “Exposure to Classroom Poverty and Test Score
Achievement: Contextual Effects or Selection?” American Journal of Sociology 118(4):
943-979.
 American Sociological Association, Sociology of Education section, Coleman
Award Honorable Mention.
Lauen, D. (2013) “Jumping at the Chance: The Effects of Accountability Consequences on
Student Achievement.” Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness 6(2): 93-113.
Lauen, D. and Gaddis, M. (2012) “Shining a Light or Fumbling in the Dark? The Effects of
NCLB’s Subgroup-Specific Accountability Pressure on Student Performance.”
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 34(2): 185-208.
Ladd, H. & Lauen, D.* (2010) “Status Versus Growth: The Distributional Effects of
Accountability Policies.” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. 29(3): 426-450.
Lauen, D. (2009) “To Choose or Not to Choose: High School Choice and Graduation in
Chicago.” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 31(3): 179-199.
Lauen, D. and K. Tyson (2009) “Sociological Contributions to Education Policy Research and
Debates.” In D. Plank, B. Schneider, and G. Sykes (eds.), Handbook on Education
Policy Research. (pp. 71-82) American Educational Research Association.
Lauen, D. (2007) “False Promises: The School Choice Provisions in the No Child Left Behind
Act.” In A. Sadovnik, J. O’Day, K. Borman, and G. Bohrnstedt (eds), No Child Left
Behind and the Reduction of the Achievement Gap: Sociological Perspectives on
Federal Educational Policy (203-226). New York, NY: Routledge. [Also reprinted in
Sociology of Education: A Critical Reader, Edited by A. Sadovnik, Routledge, 1st
edition, 2007 and 2nd edition, 2011.]
Lauen, D. (2007) “Contextual Explanations of School Choice.” Sociology of Education. 80(3):
179-209.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

Spees, L., Lauen, D. “Switchers and Stayers: Charter School Effectiveness in North Carolina,
2004-2015”
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Carbonaro, W., Lauen, D., and Levy, B. “Do High Poverty Schools Widen Test Score
Inequality? Evidence using Administrative Data from Two States”

MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Lauen, D., Unlu, F., Fuller, S. “Early Colleges in North Carolina: Assessing Lottery and Non-
Lottery Impacts.”
Lauen, D. Kearns, C., Fuller, B. “Competing with Charters: Student Selection, Institutional
Location, and Achievement Effects of Pilot Schools in Los Angeles.”
McEachin, A., Lauen, D., Horvath, J., Kho, A. “Elementary and Middle Charter School
Effects.”
Lauen, D., McEachin, A., Horvath, J., Kho, A. “The Effects of Charter High Schools on
Attainment and Long Term Young Adult Outcomes.”
Gaddis, M., Lauen, D., Thomas, T., Jennings, J. “Transition to Middle School and Peer Group
Movement: Effects on Math and Reading Test Score Gains.”

NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Lauen, D., and Henry, G. “The Distribution of Teachers in North Carolina, 2009-2013.”
Research Brief to NC DPI, June 2015).
Lauen, D., Kozlowski, K. “Teacher Performance Incentives in North Carolina: A Summative
Report,” (policy research report to NC DPI, August 2014).
Lauen, D., Kozlowski, K. “Teacher Performance Incentives in North Carolina,” (policy
research report to NC DPI, August 2013).
Lauen, D., Henry, G., Rose, R, Kozlowski, K. “The Distribution of Teacher Value Added in
North Carolina,” (policy research report to NC DPI, December, 2013).
Rose, R., Henry, G., Lauen, D. “Comparing Value Added Models for Estimating Teacher
Effectiveness,” (technical report to NC DPI, February 2012).
Ladd, H & Lauen, D.* (2010) “Status vs. Growth: Strategies for School Improvement.”
Carolina Context. April. No. 10. (policy brief)
Hart, H., Allensworth, E., Lauen, D. & Gladden, M. (2002). Educational Technology in
Chicago Public Schools: A Baseline Report. Chicago, IL: Consortium on Chicago
Schools Research.
Levesque, K., Lauen, D., Teitlebaum, P., Alt, M., & Librera, S. (2000). Vocational Education
in the United States: Toward the Year 2000. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Education,
National Center on Educational Statistics.

Stern, D., Byrnes, M., Levesque, K. & Lauen, D. (2000). Enabling High Schools to Assess
School Wide Results of Reform: A Pilot Test. Berkeley, CA: National Center for
Research in Vocational Education.
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Rasinski, K., Bradburn, N., & Lauen, D. (1999) “The Effects of Media Coverage of the
National Issues Convention on Citizen Attitudes and Opinions.” In M. McCombs & A.
Reynolds (Eds.), The Poll with a Human Face: The National Issues Convention
Experiment in Political Communication. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Visher, M., Lauen, D., Merola, L. & Medrich, E. (1998). School-to-Work in the 1990s: A
Look at Programs and Practices in American High Schools. Berkeley, CA: MPR
Associates, Inc.
Kaufman, P., Chavez, L., & Lauen, D. (1998). Generational Status and Educational
Outcomes Among Asian and Hispanic 1988 Eighth Graders. Washington, DC: U.S.
Dept. of Education, National Center on Educational Statistics.

GRANTS, CONTRACTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS

Principal Investigator, “Early College High Schools at Scale: Probing Impacts and
Generalizability with a Quasi-Experiment Benchmarked Against an RCT,” $799,886, U.S.
Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, 7/1/2015-6/30/2018.

Principal Investigator, “Probing the Effects of Classroom Poverty on Test Score Achievement:
Differences Across States, Cohorts, and Low and High Standards Eras,” $49,928, Spencer
Foundation, 5/1/15-6/30/16.

Co-Principal Investigator, “Examining North Carolina Charter School Effects on Short and
Long Run Outcomes,” $289,490, Walton Family Foundation, 7/1/15-6/30/17.
Principal Investigator, “North Carolina New Schools Evaluation,” $132,000, UNC General
Administration, 11/12-8/13.
Co-Principal Investigator, “Golden LEAF STEM Statewide Evaluation,” $498,322 (UNC-
Chapel Hill share: $148,566), Golden LEAF Foundation, 4/11-3/14.
Co-Investigator, “Baseline Teacher Quality Report,” $137,501, North Carolina Department of
Public Instruction, 1/11-6/14.
Co-Investigator, “Evaluation of Race to the Top Teacher Incentives,” $229,757, North
Carolina Department of Public Instruction, 1/11-6/14.
Junior Faculty Development Award, Office of Vice Chancellor of Research, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011. $7,500.
Small Grant, Office of Vice Chancellor of Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 2010. $5,000.
Principal Investigator, “Narrowing the Curriculum? The Effect of Accountability Pressure on
Elementary Science Achievement,” $39,625, Spencer Foundation, 1/11-12/11.
Principal Investigator, “Designing a Longitudinal Tracking System to Inform Workforce
Development and Educational Reform Policies in Lenoir County, North Carolina,”
Campus Community Partnership, School of Government, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, $19,684, 7/15/10-6/30/11.
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Small Grant, Office of Vice Chancellor of Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 2009. $5,000.
Co-Principal Investigator, “The Distributional Effects of State and Federal Educational
Accountability Policies,” $40,000, Spencer Foundation, 9/08-9/09.
Exemplary Dissertation Award, Spencer Foundation, “Assessing the Impact of School
Socioeconomic Status on Elementary School Student Test Score Gains.” $25,000. 8/08-
6/10. One of two dissertations awarded a $25,000 grant in 2008. Also received a $2,500
award as one of five finalists.
Small Grant, Office of Vice Chancellor of Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, 2007. $5,000.
Faculty Partners Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. $7,000.
David Lee Stevenson Graduate Student Paper Award, Sociology of Education Section,
American Sociological Association, 2005
Charles Bidwell Fund Travel Award, University of Chicago Sociology Department, 2005
Mellon Foundation/University of Chicago Dissertation Write Up Fellowship, 2005-2006
Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 2004-2005
Received honors on a Special Field Examination in School, Community and the State, April
2004
American Education Research Association/Spencer Foundation Pre-Dissertation Fellowship,
2002-2003
Henderson Award recipient, University of Chicago Sociology Department, 2002-2003
Center on School Improvement Tuition Scholarship, 2000-2002

PRESENTATIONS
“Early College at Scale in North Carolina: Probing Impacts and Generalizability with a Quasi-
Experiment Benchmarked Against an RCT.” Center for Research on Educational
Opportunity, Notre Dame, November 14, 2016.
“Early Colleges in North Carolina: Assessing Lottery and Non-Lottery Impacts” Association
of Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, November 5, 2016.
“Helping Every Child Succeed.” Carolina Forum, moderator of conversation with Katie
Haycock (Education Trust) and Margaret Spellings (President of University of North
Carolina). Chapel Hill, September 22, 2016.
“Early College at Scale in North Carolina: Probing Impacts and Generalizability with a Quasi-
Experiment Benchmarked Against an RCT.” Causal Inference Research Group, Gillings
School of Public Health, UNC Chapel Hill. May 6, 2016.
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“Unpacking the Null: School Poverty Effects on Test Score Achievement Growth.” Invited
talk, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology. Baltimore, MD. March 23,
2016.
“Unpacking the Null: School Poverty Effects on Test Score Achievement Growth.” Invited
talk, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Department of Public Policy.
Baltimore, MD. March 22, 2016.
“Stratification or Selection? The Impact of School Poverty on Student Achievement
Trajectories from Kindergarten to Eighth Grade.” Sociology of Education Association.
Monterey, CA. February 20, 2016. (coauthored paper presented by Brian Levy)
“Strategies for Improving Non-cognitive Outcomes for Children.” Association of Policy
Analysis and Management. Miami, FL. November 13, 2015. Discussant.
“Policy Impact Evaluation.” Invited talk, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Berlin, Germany.
July 20, 2015.
“Longitudinal Effects through the Youth Life Course: Exploring the Effects of Classroom and
Neighborhood Poverty and Summer Learning Loss.” Society for Research on
Educational Effectiveness. Washington, DC. March 5, 2015. Session Organizer and
Chair.
“The Effects of School Poverty on Achievement: Replications and Extensions.” Society for
Research on Educational Effectiveness. Washington, DC. March 5, 2015. (coauthored
paper presented by Bill Carbonaro)
“The Effects of School Poverty on Achievement: Replications and Extensions.” Sociology of
Education Association. Monterey, CA. February 22, 2015. (coauthored paper presented
by Bill Carbonaro)
“Assessing the Effects of the Great Recession on the Teacher Labor Market.” Association of
Policy Analysis and Management. Albuquerque, NM. November, 8, 2014. Discussant.
“The Production of Academic Achievement: Family Background, Peers, and Teacher Skill.”
University of North Carolina Sociology Departmental Colloquium, Chapel Hill, NC,
April 16, 2014.
“The Impact of Early Colleges: Results from a Quasi-Experimental Analysis.” Society of
Research on Educational Effectiveness. Washington, DC, March 7, 2014.
“Specialized Programs to Improve Academic Outcomes for Disadvantaged Youth.” Society of
Research on Educational Effectiveness. Washington, DC, March 6, 2014.
Chair/Discussant.
“The Distribution of Teacher Value-Added in North Carolina.” Briefing for the North Carolina
State Board of Education, Raleigh, NC, March 5, 2014.
“Causal Inference in Sixty Minutes.” Guest lecture in University of North Carolina Sociology
department’s Ph.D. seminar in sociological methods, Chapel Hill, NC, February 12,
2014.
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“Experimental and Nonexperimental Impact Estimates from Early College High Schools.”
Session organizer. Association of Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC,
November 7, 2013.
“The Effects of Early College High Schools on Secondary and Postsecondary Outcomes.”
Association of Policy Analysis and Management, Association of Policy Analysis and
Management, Washington, DC, November 7, 2013.
“Doing the Math on Algebra Acceleration Policies: Contemporary Evidence for Future
Policies.” Chair. Association of Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC,
November 7, 2013.
“North Carolina New Schools: LLI, Early College, and STEM Effects.” Briefing for North
Carolina New Schools staff. Raleigh, NC, September, 13, 2013.
“North Carolina New Schools: LLI, Early College, and STEM Effects.” North Carolina New
Schools Next/Best Practices meeting. Raleigh, NC, August 28, 2013.
“North Carolina New Schools Effects.” Briefing for University of North Carolina President
Tom Ross. Chapel Hill, NC, August 26, 2013.
“North Carolina New Schools: LLI, Early College, and STEM Effects.” Briefing for North
Carolina New Schools President, Tony Habit. Raleigh, NC, August 21, 2013.
“Can Schools Close SES Achievement Gaps? The Role of Accountability, Resources, and
Teacher Quality.” American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA,
April 29, 2013. (Coauthored paper, presented by Michael Gaddis.)
“The Effect of Cumulative Exposure to Accountability Pressure on Grade Progression in
Primary and Secondary School.” Association for Education Finance and Policy, New
Orleans, LA, March 16, 2013.
“The Distribution of Effective Teachers in North Carolina.” Association for Education Finance
and Policy, New Orleans, LA, March 14, 2013.
“The Effect of Cumulative Exposure to Accountability Pressure on Grade Progression in
Primary and Secondary School.” Sociology of Education Association, Monterey, CA,
February 23, 2013.
“Teacher Effectiveness: Measurement and Policy Applications.” Chair and organizer.
Association of Policy Analysis and Management, Baltimore, MD, November 10, 2012.
“The Distribution of Effective Teachers in North Carolina.” Association of Policy Analysis
and Management, Baltimore, MD, November 10, 2012.
“The Effects of District-Level Policies on the Black-White Test Score Gap.” Association of
Policy Analysis and Management, Baltimore, MD, November 10, 2012.
“School and Teacher Accountability.” Thematic Session: Building a Better K-12 Education
System, American Sociological Association, Denver, CO, August 18, 2012.
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“Can Schools Close SES Achievement Gaps? The Role of Accountability, Resources, and
Teacher Quality.” Income, Inequality and Educational Success (Invited Conference),
Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, May 16, 2012.
“Accountability Pressure, Academic Standards, and Educational Triage.” Society for
Research on Educational Effectiveness, Washington, DC, March 8, 2012.
“Cash or Credit? Teacher Performance Pay and Public Accountability Threats.” Association of
Policy Analysis and Management, Washington, DC, November 5, 2011.
“Nothing Gold Can Stay: Accountability, Inequality and Achievement.” American
Sociological Association, Las Vegas, NV, August 22, 2011.
“The Effects of School-Wide Bonuses on Student Achievement: Regression Discontinuity
Evidence from North Carolina.” Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness,
Washington, DC, March 4, 2011.
“The Effects of School-Wide Bonuses on Student Achievement: Regression Discontinuity
Evidence from North Carolina.” Sociology of Education Association, Monterey, CA,
February 19, 2011.
“Charter School Effects on Academic Achievement: Evidence from Los Angeles.” Sociology
of Education Association, Monterey, CA, February 20, 2011. (Coauthored paper,
presented by Luke Dauter.)
“Closing Achievement Gaps by 2014? Evidence on the Progress of NCLB.” Sociology of
Education Association, Monterey, CA, February 19, 2011. (Coauthored paper, presented
by Michael Gaddis.)
“Shining a Light or Fumbling in the Dark? The Effects of NCLB’s Subgroup-Specific
Accountability Pressure on Student performance.” Association of Policy Analysis and
Management, Boston, MA, November 6, 2010. (panel presenter and organizer)
“Shining a Light or Fumbling in the Dark? The Effects of NCLB’s Subgroup-Specific
Accountability Pressure on Student performance.” American Sociological Association,
Atlanta, GA., August 17, 2010.
“Shining a Light or Fumbling in the Dark? The Effects of NCLB’s Subgroup-Specific
Accountability Pressure on Student performance.” Institute for Research on Poverty
Summer Research Workshop, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, June 8, 2010.
“Contagion, Institutions, or Selection? The Effect of Peer Poverty on Student Test Score
Growth.” American Educational Research Association, Denver, CO, May 2, 2010.
“Contagion, Institutions, or Selection? The Effect of Peer Poverty on Student Test Score
Growth.” Sociology of Education Association, Monterey, CA, February 21, 2010.
“Shining a Light or Fumbling in the Dark? The Effects of NCLB’s Subgroup-Specific
Accountability Pressure on Student performance.” Institute of Human Development,
University of California, Berkeley, CA, February 18, 2010.
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“Status versus Growth: The Distributional Effects of Educational Accountability Policies.”

NCLB: Emerging Findings (Invited Conference), Urban Institute, Washington, DC,
August 12, 2009.
“Evaluating Socioeconomic Based Student Assignment Plans.” Panel discussant, Looking to
the Future: Legal and Policy Options for Racially Integrated Education in the South and
the Nation, Chapel Hill, NC, April 2, 2009.
“Status versus Growth: The Distributional Effects of Educational Accountability Policies.”
The Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, Washington, DC, March 2,
2009.
“Pushed Pulled and Sorted: School Choice, School Quality, and Segregation in Chicago,”
Association of Policy Analysis and Management, Los Angeles, CA, November, 8, 2008.
“The Distributional Effects of State and Federal Education Accountability Policies on Student
Test Score Gains,” International Sociological Association RC 04: Sociology Education
session on High Stakes Testing, Barcelona, Spain, September 6, 2008.
“High School Teacher Working Conditions and EOC Scores,” Center for Teaching Quality,
Hillsborough, NC, February 1, 2008.
“Trading Up? Public School Choice and Gains in School Quality and Productivity.” American
Educational Research Association, Chicago, IL, April 12, 2007.
“The effect of elementary school social capital on selective high school choice.” Sociology of
Education Association, Monterey, CA, February 11, 2007.
“Contextual Explanations of School Choice.” American Sociological Association,
Philadelphia, PA, August 14, 2005.
“False Promises: The School Choice Provisions in No Child Left Behind.” Sociology of
Education Section NCLB Mini-Conference, Philadelphia, PA, August 12, 2005.
“Contextual Explanations of School Choice.” Sloan Center on Working Families Annual
Meeting, Chicago, IL, May 18, 2005.
“School Choice and Inequality: Public and Private High School Enrollment in Chicago.”
American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA, April 13, 2004.
“An Agent Based Modeling Approach to School Choice.” American Sociological Association,
Atlanta, GA, August 18, 2003.
“An Agent Based Modeling Approach to School Choice.” Advanced Simulation Workshop,
University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany, April 10, 2003.

RESEARCH POSITIONS
Research Associate, Data Research and Development Center, University of Chicago, 2002-
2004.
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Developed an agent-based simulation model to examine the effect of school choice

programs on student enrollment flows and school compositional characteristics.
Analyst, Consortium on Chicago School Research, University of Chicago, 2000-2002.
Designed survey items, constructed RASCH measures from survey items, analyzed data,
and wrote a report on educational technology in Chicago public schools.
Research Associate, MPR Associates, Inc., Berkeley, CA., 1997-2000.
Analyzed the 1997 National Longitudinal Study of Youth data for the National School-to-
Work office on the prevalence of school-to-work activity (1998-2000)
Analyzed the 1994 and 1997 National Employer Surveys for Vocational Education in the
United States, a National Center for Education Statistics publication (1998-1999)
Coordinated an NCES Technical Review Panel that oversees vocational education data
collection (1999-2000)
Developed curriculum and taught workshops for educators on how to use data for program
improvement purposes (1997-2000)
Under contract from the National Center for Research in Vocational Education, conducted
research in the comparability of school-wide data, data collection practices, and student
record systems in five San Francisco bay area schools and provided technical assistance
to these schools on data retrieval, analysis and presentation (1998-2000)
Developed postsecondary case study protocols and sampling plan for the National
Assessment of Vocational Education (2000)
Under contract from the National Center on Research in Vocational Education and the U.S.
Department of Education's Planning and Evaluation Service, coordinated an evaluation
study of 27 High Schools That Work sites involving site visits, data analysis, and
technical assistance (1998-2000)
Conducted technical site visits for the Office of Vocational and Adult Education’s New
American High School Initiative (1999-2000)
Research Assistant, Professor Norman Bradburn, University of Chicago, 1995–1997.
Worked on program evaluations of two election civic journalism projects; analyzed data
from the National Issues Survey, a random probability sample of political opinions
collected for the January 1996 National Issues Convention; helped coordinate
questionnaire development, survey design, and administration; provided logistical
support at the convention in Austin, Texas.
Research Assistant, Professor Laurence Lynn, University of Chicago, 1996.
Worked on a research project on public management improvement for the Pew Charitable
Trusts; analyzed and classified existing public management literature; performed site
visits and evaluations of programs in Washington, D.C., New York, and New Jersey.
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TEACHING POSITIONS
Assistant to Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill,
2006-
A required graduate seminar on causal inference and research design for quantitative
studies, an undergraduate course on education policy, an honors freshman seminar in
school reform, a Ph.D. seminar on education policy, an undergraduate course in
quantitative methods, an undergraduate course on public policy analysis.
Lecturer, Sociological Research Methods, University of Chicago, Winter Quarter, 2005.
Lead Faculty, Computer Tools for School Productivity, New Leaders for New Schools
Summer Institute, Summers, 2002-2006.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Institute of Education Sciences, FY2015-FY2017 Principal Member, Education Systems and
Broad Reform scientific peer review panelist.
Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, Program Committee, Education Policy
Section Chair, Spring 2015 conference.
Institute of Education Sciences, FY2014 Education Systems and Broad Reform ad-hoc
scientific peer review panelist.
Editorial Board, American Educational Research Journal (2016- )
Editorial Board, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (2012-2015)
Editorial Board, Sociology of Education (2007-2010)
Associate Editor, American Journal of Sociology (2003-2004)
Student Editor, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (2001-2003)
Founding Co-Editor, Chicago Policy Review (1996-1997)
American Educational Research Association Division L – Education Policy and Politics 2009
Dissertation Award Committee Panel Member.
American Sociological Association, Sociology of Education section, David Lee Stevenson
Graduate Student Paper Award Committee member, 2011.
Manuscript reviews and adjudications for American Journal of Sociology, American
Sociological Review, Social Forces, American Economic Review, Journal of Policy
Analysis and Management, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Education
Finance and Policy, Educational Policy Analysis Archives, Sage Press, American
Education Research Association, Sociology of Education, American Journal of
Education, American Educational Research Journal, European Sociological Review.
Research grant reviews for WT Grant Foundation, Institute of Education Sciences.