Former Gates Foundation Official to Lecture on Education

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Marguerite Roza

Marguerite Roza, senior scholar at the Center on Reinventing Public Education at the University of Washington, will speak about education at noon Friday, April 27, on the University of Arkansas campus.

Roza's lecture is titled "The Search for Productivity Gains in Public Education." It is part of the series sponsored by the department of education reform in the College of Education and Health Professions. It will be in Room 343 of the Graduate Education Building.

The lecture is free and open to the public and lunch will be served. To RSVP, visit the lecture series website.

Roza previously served as senior data and economic adviser in the U.S. Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She recently returned to her post as a research associate professor at the University of Washington’s College of Education, where she is a senior scholar at the Center on Reinventing Public Education. Her research work includes education finance and the effects that fiscal policies at the federal, state and district levels have on resources in classrooms and schools, as well as the direct impact that education policies have on education budgets and spending inside schools and within districts. Roza holds a bachelor's degree from Duke University and a doctorate in education from the University of Washington.

She co-wrote a white paper called "Curing Baumol's Disease: In Search of Productivity Gains in K-12 Schooling" that can be read on the website of the Center on Reinventing Public Education.