Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke University

Professor of Economics, Duke University

Ph.D., Economics, Harvard University

hladd@pps.duke.edu

http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/people/faculty/ladd/index.html

Areas of expertise: teacher quality, student achievement, school finance, school choice and market-based reforms, charter schools, educational accountability

Biography

Helen (Sunny) Ladd is a member of CALDER's Management Team and leads the North Carolina effort. She is the Edgar Thompson Professor of Public Policy Studies in the Sanford Institute of Public Policy Studies and Professor of Economics at Duke University.

Most of Dr. Ladd’s current research focuses on education policy. She is the editor of Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education (Brookings, 1996) and is the coauthor (with Edward Fiske) of When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale (Brookings, 2000) and of Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa (Brookings, 2004). As co-chair from 1996-99 of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Education Finance, she co-edited two volumes on financing US schools.

Dr. Ladd has written extensively on educational accountability, market-based reforms in education, parental choice and competition, and most recently on teacher quality and student achievement. She is currently co-editing a Handbook of Research on Education Finance and Policy in conjunction with the American Education Finance Association.

CALDER-Related Publications by Dr. Ladd

CALDER Publications by Dr. Ladd