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
Can the Two Policies Be Compatible?
This paper discusses the interaction between comprehensive education reforms and curricular services for special-needs students—mainly economically disadvantaged students eligible for state and federal compensatory education services. Concern about…
Continuing growth and sustained progress on educational reform characterize California's public schools, but the Gann spending limit, which potentially restricts state dollars for education, and projected shortages of highly qualified teachers…
Until about 1980, the issues surrounding public school finance remained the same. They were fiscal in nature and included spending inequalities related to differences in school district property wealth per pupil; technicalities related to various…
This paper discusses the recent course of elementary and secondary education in California and its needs for the next five years. Funding is a key element in the health of the system, and several trends are evident. First, since 1978, real revenues…