Allan R. Odden
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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
Background and Technical Appendices
In the early 1980s, a study of California secondary students' pathways through high school documented an erosion in secondary school curriculum. Electives had replaced academic courses; student exposure to sound mathematics, science, and U.S.…
A By-Product of Reform
Following the enactment of S.B. 813, the omnibus reform law of 1983, Michael Kirst of Stanford University and James Guthrie of the University of California, Berkeley, started the Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) Project. One of the…
This report provides an overview of California's school finance system, including selected school finance facts; descriptions of the general revenue limit and categorical programs funding formulas; and, for each program, the amount appropriated for…
Two years ago, in the midst of a heated debate in the California legislature over whether to eliminate the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, a proponent of the proposal stood up, waved a red, white, and blue publication, and declared: "PACE says…