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College of Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Faculty Research Profiles: Christopher Lubienski

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Educational Organization & Leadership
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1310 S. 6th St. MC 708
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Research Biography

My research interests: Education Policy and Politics, Political Economy of School Choice, Organizational Theory and Innovation, Relationship of Theory to Policy, Education Reform and Equity, Geographic Analyses

Degrees

  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Education Policy, National Academy of Education, 2005
  • Post-Doctoral Fellow, Education Policy, Advanced Studies Program, Brown University, 2002
  • Ph.D., Education Policy and Social Analysis, Michigan State University, 1999
  • M.A., History, Michigan State University, 1992
  • B.S., History, Northern Michigan University (Summa Cum Laude), 1989

Key Professional Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Educational Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, 2007--
  • Assistant Professor, Educational Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois, 2004--
  • Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, Iowa State University, 1999--

Activities & Honors

  • Faculty Affiliate, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, 2008- present
  • Member, Spencer Foundation, Small Research Grants Advisory Committee, 2008- present
  • Distinguished Scholar, College of Education, 2007-2008
  • Member, Policy Task Force, Center for Tax and Budget Accountability, 2006- present
  • Member, Think Tank Review Panel, Educational Policy Research Unit, Education Policy Studies Laboratory, Arizona State University, 2006- present
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2006- present
  • EPRU/EPIC Fellow, Education and the Public Interest Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, 2006- present
  • Faculty Fellow, College of Education, Bureau of Educational Research, 2006-2007
  • Review Panel Member, Research and Evaluation on Education in Science and Engineering, National Science Foundation, 2006
  • Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students (rated “outstanding,” Spring, 2005; Spring 2007), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004- present
  • Member, American Sociological Association, 2003- present
  • Member, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2003- present
  • Member, Urban Affairs Association, 2003- present
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of School Choice, 2003- present
  • Member, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, 2003- present
  • Member, Politics of Education Association, 2001- present
  • Member, Comparative and International Education Society, 1998- present

Grants

  • Co-Principal Investigator, School Choice and Educational Reform in New Orleans, Campus Research Board, 2007
  • Principal Investigator, The Social Geography of School Choice in Segregated Urban Areas, The Spencer Foundation (National Academy of Education), 2005
  • Co-Principal Investigator, School Choice Policies and Outcomes Around the Globe: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Limits to Choice in Liberal Democracies, The Spencer Foundation, 2005
  • Principal Investigator, Adversaries or Allies: Do voucher programs increase competitive or cooperative strategies between public, private, and charter schools?, Bureau of Educational Research, 2005
  • Co-Principal Investigator, A New Look at School Type, Mathematics Achievement and Equity, U.S. Department of Education, 2005
  • Co-Principal Investigator, School Choice Policies and Outcomes Around the Globe: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Limits to Choice in Liberal Democracies, International Program Studies (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation), 2005
  • Principal Investigator, Substantive and Symbolic Innovation in Competition-Based School Reform, Campus Research Board, 2005
  • Principal Investigator, Marketing Schools: Structuring incentives for innovation in educational production and promotion, The Spencer Foundation (Brown University), 2003

Selected Publications

  • Lubienski, C., Crane, C. C., & Lubienski, S. T. (2008, May). What Do We Know About School Effectiveness?  Academic Gains in a Value-Added Analysis of Public and Private Schools.  Phi Delta Kappan, 89 (9) 689-695.
  • Lubienski, C.  (2007).  Marketing Schools:  Consumer Goods and Competitive Incentives for Consumer Information.  Education and Urban Society, 40 (1), 118-141. 
  • Lubienski, C. (2006). School diversification in second-best education markets: International evidence and conflicting theories of change. Educational Policy, 20 (2), 323-344.
  • Lubienski, S. T., & Lubienski, C. (2006). School sector and academic achievement: A multi-level analysis of NAEP mathematics data. American Educational Research Journal, 43 (4), 651-698.
  • Lubienski, C. (2005). Public schools in marketized environments: Shifting incentives and unintended consequences of competition-based educational reforms. American Journal of Education, 111 (4), 464-486.

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