Professor of Economics, Florida State University

Ph.D., Economics, University of Washington

tsass@coss.fsu.edu

http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~tsass

Areas of expertise: school choice, teacher quality, school competition, value-added modeling

Biography

Tim Sass is a Professor of Economics at Florida State University. His work covers an array of education policy issues including charter schools, teacher quality, special education, vouchers, peer effects and value-added methodology. He has been the principal investigator on a study of charter schools funded by the Spencer Foundation and co-PI on a USDOE-IES funded project to study the determinants of regular education teacher effectiveness as well as co-PI on a grant project to evaluate the certification system of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. He has acted as a consultant to the RAND Corporation, Berkeley Policy Associates and the National Academy of Sciences on various education policy issues.

CALDER-Related Publications by Dr. Sass

CALDER Publications by Dr. Sass