Jennifer King Rice

Jennifer Rice King is senior vice president and provost in the Office of the President at the University of Maryland. She was previously dean of the College of Education, where she sought to align educational resources with initiatives to advance excellence, equity, and social justice at all levels of education. She was formerly a researcher at Mathematica Policy Research. Rice's research draws on the discipline of economics to study policy questions concerning excellence and equity in K–12 education. An expert on school finance and teacher policy, she regularly advises state and federal agencies. She has served on the editorial boards of American Educational Research Journal, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Education Finance and Policy. She is a past president of the Association for Education Finance and Policy. Rice received her PhD in educational administration and social foundations from Cornell University.

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