About the Authors |
Julia B. Isaacs and Michael S. Garet,American Institutes for ResearchStephen P. Broughman, |
Julia B. Isaacs is a senior research analyst at the Pelavin Research Center of the American Institutes for Research (AIR). Since joining AIR in February 1995, she has conducted research on public and private school finance, co-authoring four NCES working papers on this subject. She also has worked closely with the Head Start Bureau, serving as task leader on projects to revise the Head Start grant application system and to write program guidance on implementing Head Start Program Performance Standards. For 10 years she was a Principal Analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, responsible for analyzing the budgetary effects of legislative proposals in the areas of food stamps, child welfare, and child care. She holds a master's degree in Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley.
Michael S. Garet is a senior research analyst at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). He earned his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and he has served on the faculties of Stanford and Northwestern Universities. He is currently the deputy director of a largescale national evaluation of the Eisenhower Professional Development Program, being conducted for the U.S. Department of Education. He has written on research methods, school organization, educational finance, and curriculum reform in mathematics and science.
Stephen P. Broughman has been an employee of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) since 1992 where his duties include being the project officer for the Private School Survey (PSS) and having the lead responsibility for the private school component of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS). He obtained a Bachelor's of Science and a master's degree in economics from Virginia Commonwealth University, and a master's degree in applied mathematics and statistics and a Ph.D. in economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His current research interests include private school issues and teacher supply.
