Allan R. Odden
Share
Allan R. Odden
Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis,
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Allan R. Odden is professor emeritus of educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also is co-director emeritus of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, a consortium of the University of the Wisconsin–Madison; Teachers College, Columbia University; and Harvard, Northwestern, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Stanford Universities. Odden is also director emeritus of Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education, a project focused on talent management in education. He formerly was professor of education policy and administration at the University of Southern California and director of Policy Analysis for California Education.
updated 1993
Publications by Allan R. Odden
Research-Based Policy Alternatives
Class size is an ongoing education policy issue that ebbs and flows over time. Class size reductions have been proposed recently in many states and enacted in a few. This article reviews the literature on class size and student achievement and…
The Need for Analysis
Educational indicator systems have become a major "business" in the United States. Although its intellectual roots are found in the social indicators movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, its focus today is clearer; its linkages to policy issues are…
This is the fifth edition of Conditions of Education in California. Over time, the content and format have changed in keeping with suggestions made by readers.
This publication is based upon compilations and syntheses of information collected by…
1960 to 1988
There have been significant changes in public school funding in the United States since 1960. Public schools have enjoyed a history of continuous increases in real funding in both total and per pupil terms during this period. While catalysts for…