Kevin G. Welner
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Kevin G. Welner is Director of the National Education Policy Center
located at the University of Colorado at Boulder
. He is also a professor of Education Policy
at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Education. He has authored or edited seven books and more than 70 articles and book chapters concerning education policy and law. These publications include Think tank research quality: Lessons for policymakers, the media, and the public (2010, with Pat Hinchey, Alex Molnar and Don Weitzman); NeoVouchers: The emergence of tuition tax credits for private schooling (2008); Legal rights, local wrongs: When community control collides with educational equity (2001); and Education policy and law: Current issues (with Wendy Chi, 2008). He has received the American Educational Research Association
Early Career Award and its Palmer O. Johnson Award, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Residency, and the NAEd/Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship. He received his B.A. in Biological Sciences from UCSB and his J.D. and Ph.D. from UCLA.
His present research examines the use of research in policy making, tracking and detracking policies, tuition tax credit voucher policies, school reform, and various issues concerning the intersection between education rights litigation and educational opportunity scholarship.
National Education Policy Center
The National Education Policy Center is a non-profit education policy research center located in the School of Education at the University of Colorado at Boulder. It was founded in 2010 and is funded by a variety of governmental organizations, NGOs, and foundations...
located at the University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Colorado at Boulder
The University of Colorado Boulder is a public research university located in Boulder, Colorado...
. He is also a professor of Education Policy
Education policy
Education policy refers to the collection of laws and rules that govern the operation of education systems.Education occurs in many forms for many purposes through many institutions. Examples include early childhood education, kindergarten through to 12th grade, two and four year colleges or...
at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Education. He has authored or edited seven books and more than 70 articles and book chapters concerning education policy and law. These publications include Think tank research quality: Lessons for policymakers, the media, and the public (2010, with Pat Hinchey, Alex Molnar and Don Weitzman); NeoVouchers: The emergence of tuition tax credits for private schooling (2008); Legal rights, local wrongs: When community control collides with educational equity (2001); and Education policy and law: Current issues (with Wendy Chi, 2008). He has received the American Educational Research Association
American Educational Research Association
The American Educational Research Association, or AERA, was founded in 1916 as a professional organization representing educational researchers in the United States and around the world....
Early Career Award and its Palmer O. Johnson Award, the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Residency, and the NAEd/Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship. He received his B.A. in Biological Sciences from UCSB and his J.D. and Ph.D. from UCLA.
His present research examines the use of research in policy making, tracking and detracking policies, tuition tax credit voucher policies, school reform, and various issues concerning the intersection between education rights litigation and educational opportunity scholarship.