William J. Fowler, Jr.

About the Author

William J. Fowler, Jr. is the director of the Education Finance Statistical Center (EFSC) at the U.S. Department of Education, (NCES). He specializes in elementary and secondary education finance and educational productivity research. His recent work has focused on the development of geographic and inflationary cost adjustments, and their effect upon measures of equity; school-level financial reporting; the construction of a student-level resource measure; and issues in analyzing NCES student achievement and finance data.

Dr. Fowler has worked for NCES since 1987, before which he served as a supervisor of school finance research for the New Jersey Department of Education. He has also taught at Bucknell University and the University of Illinois, and 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 received the Outstanding Service Award of the American Education Finance Association in 1997, and served on its Board of Directors from 1992 to 1995. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Education Finance. Dr. Fowler is a graduate of Columbia University with a doctorate in education (1977).