CALDER is a partnership of researchers from the Urban Institute, Duke University, Stanford University, the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Florida, the University of Washington, and the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Our team is geographically dispersed, each partner strategically situated to access key state and local data sources while exploring common research questions. Our multiple data sources complement each other and allow us to test findings under different policy and context conditions, moving policy research forward forcefully and efficiently.
CALDER is composed of state-based teams:
CALDER is overseen by a Management Team, a Strategic Planning Group, and an Advisory Board.
Management
The CALDER Management Team is responsible for ensuring coordination of activities and efforts across sites, the quality of resulting products, and resource allocation. It is composed of:
- Jane Hannaway, Principal Investigator (Urban Institute)
- David Figlio (Florida)
- Areas of expertise: testing policy, school accountability, early childhood education, interactions between education and health policy
- figlio@ufl.edu
- Eric Hanushek (Texas)
- Helen Ladd (North Carolina)
- Areas of expertise: teacher quality, student achievement, school finance, school choice and market-based reforms, charter schools, educational accountability
- hladd@pps.duke.edu
- Susanna Loeb (New York)
- Areas of expertise: teacher labor markets, school finance, teacher quality, teacher preparation and retention, early childhood education, economics of education
- sloeb@stanford.edu
The CALDER Strategic Planning Group develops detailed research agendas and identifies opportunities for specialized and opportunistic studies with high yields in terms of policy relevance. Along with the members of the Management Team, the Strategic Planning Group includes:
- Dan Goldhaber (Washington)
- Areas of expertise: the effects of teacher qualifications and quality on student achievement; the impact of teacher pay structure and licensure on the teacher labor market; the relative efficiency of public and private schools; and the effects of accountability systems and market competition on K-12 schooling
- dgoldhab@u.washington.edu
- Paul Jargowsky (Texas)
- Areas of expertise: urban and suburban development, urban poverty, economic segregation, higher education
- jargo@utdallas.edu
- Michael Podgursky (Missouri)
- Areas of expertise: teacher labor markets and teacher quality (recruitment, preparation, certification, retention, merit pay)
- podgurskym@missouri.edu
- Kim Rueben (Urban Institute)
- Areas of expertise: school finance, teacher labor market, teacher recruitment and retention
- krueben@ui.urban.org
The CALDER Advisory Board provides comment and advice on both the research plans and research products of the center.
Mission 