William J. Fowler, Jr.
About the Author
Dr. William J. Fowler, Jr. is an education statistician at the U.S. Department of Education's (NCES) who specializes in school finance and educational productivity research. His work has centered on redesigning the federal school finance data collection to obtain information that can provide more policy-oriented analyses for the school finance community. NCES has reinstituted a state and school district finance data collection for the first time in more than a decade, and is currently funding exploratory research work.
Prior to his work at NCES, Dr. Fowler served as a supervisor of school finance research for the New Jersey Department of Education and taught at both Bucknell University and the University of Illinois. He also served as a senior research associate for the Central Educational Midwestern Regional Educational Laboratory (CEMREL) in Chicago and for the New York Department of Education.
Dr. Fowler has been a member of the American Education Finance Association since 1977, and was elected to its Board of Directors in 1992. He is a coauthor of Disparities in Public School Spending, 1989-90, and a coeditor of Organizational Influences on Educational Productivity, published by the JAI Press, and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Education Finance. He obtained his doctorate in education from Columbia University in 1977.
