Director, Education Policy Center, Urban Institute

Ph.D., Education, Stanford University

jhannawa@ui.urban.org

http://www.urban.org/bio/JaneHannaway.html

Areas of expertise: federal and state education policy, organization structure, school finance

Biography

Jane Hannaway is currently Principal Research Associate and Director of the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute, where she oversees the work of the Center and is a member of the Institute's senior management team. Dr. Hannaway is the overall Principal Investigator of the CALDER project. She has primary responsibility for the running of the center and determining with colleagues in the Management/ Strategic Planning Group the focus and design of studies, the quality of the research products, as well as other CALDER activities.

Dr. Hannaway is an organizational sociologist. Her recent research is heavily focused on effects of various accountability policies. This work includes a large scale multi-year evaluation of the Florida educational accountability plan, and an NSF-funded longitudinal analysis of shifts in staffing and financial resource allocation at the school and district levels as a consequence of standards-based and performance accountability reforms. As is typical of her work, both studies include large-scale data analysis as well as case studies.

Dr. Hannaway previously served on the faculty of Columbia, Princeton, and Stanford Universities. Dr. Hannaway has authored or co-authored six books, and numerous papers in education and management journals. She has held a number of national positions and currently serves on the Executive Board of the American Education Finance Association. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University.

CALDER-Related Publications by Dr. Hannaway

CALDER Publications by Dr. Hannaway