U of A Faculty, Staff, Students Hold Prominent Spots on Education Next Publication Lists

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Jay Greene is second from left and Patrick Wolf is second from right in this illustration from Education Next.

University of Arkansas faculty members, staff members and students appear in the top 20 articles of 2013 published by Education Next, a publication of Harvard University, Stanford University and the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, the magazine announced.

Two faculty members also appear in the magazine’s top 10 blog posts of 2013, with Jay Greene, who holds the Twenty-First Century Chair in Education Reform, taking the first and sixth spots on the list. The lists were determined by website page views.

On the list of top 20 articles of 2013, Greene, Brian Kisida and Dan Bowen took the top spot in the list with their article, “The Educational Value of Field Trips,” published in September. Kisida is a senior research associate in the department of education reform, which is in College of Education and Health Professions. Bowen recently completed a doctorate in education policy at the University of Arkansas and is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Kinder Institute of Rice University.

Kisida, Greene and Bowen wrote another article about their study to measure the effect of taking students on a field trip to an art museum that was published in the New York Times Sunday supplement. That article was the most viewed and most emailed piece on the Times’ website after it was published Nov. 24.

Another Education Next article written by a student, staff member and professor in the education reform department was listed as the No. 11 article on the magazine’s top 20 list. Alexandra Boyd, a Doctoral Academy Fellow at the university, Caleb Rose, who was a research associate when the article was written, and Robert Maranto, who holds the Twenty-First Century Chair in Education Leadership, wrote “The Softer Side of ‘No Excuses’ ” about KIPP charter schools.

An article by Robert Costrell, who holds the Twenty-First Century Chair in Accountability, and Jeffery Dean, a Distinguished Doctoral Fellow and a research associate for the college’s Office of Innovation for Education, is No. 14 on the list. They wrote “The Rising Cost of Teachers’ Health Care.”

Anna Egalite and Martin Lueken, both Doctoral Academy Fellows, co-wrote “Competition with Charters Motivates Districts” with Marc Holley, a former department staff member who is now evaluation unit director at the Walton Family Foundation. That article is No. 15 on the list.

On the list of top 10 blog posts for the year, Greene wrote the No. 1 post “Does Athletic Success Come at the Expense of Academic Success?” published in February. Greene also held the No. 6 spot with “Brilliant New Measure of Non-Cognitive Skills” published in August.

Patrick Wolf, who holds the Twenty-First Century Chair in School Choice, wrote the No. 8 blog on the list, “Ravitch Blow-Up on School Choice,” published in April.