Improving Student Learning When Budgets Are Tight

About Allan R. Odden

Allan Odden is Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; he also is Co-Director of the Strategic Management of Human Capital (SMHC) in public education and Co-Director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE). CPRE is a consortium of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Pennsylvania Harvard Michigan Northwestern Teachers College-Columbia University and Stanford Universities. He is an international expert on education finance effective resource allocation and use resource reallocation the strategic management of human capital in education teacher compensation school-based management and educational policy development and implementation. He consults regularly with states and districts on these issues. His most recent books include School Finance: A Policy Perspective (McGraw Hill 2008 4th edition) with Lawrence O. Picus and How to Create World Class Teacher Compensation (Freeload Press 2007) with Marc Wallace. Other books include Paying Teachers for What They Know and Do: New and Smarter Compensation Strategies to Improve Schools (Corwin Press 1997 2nd Edition 2002) with Carolyn Kelley; Reallocating Resources: How to Boost Student Achievement Without Spending More (Corwin 2001) with Sarah Archibald; School Finance: A Policy Perspective (McGraw Hill 1992 2nd Edition 2000 3rd Edition 2004) co-authored with Lawrence Picus; School-Based Finance (Corwin Press 1999) edited with Margaret Goertz; Financing Schools for High Performance: Strategies for Improving the Use of Educational Resources (Jossey Bass 1998) with Carolyn Busch; Educational Leadership for Americas Schools (McGraw Hill 1995); Rethinking School Finance: An Agenda for the 1990s (Jossey-Bass 1992); Education Policy Implementation (State University of New York Press 1991); and School Finance and School Improvement: Linkages for the 1980s (Ballinger 1983). He was a mathematics teacher and curriculum developer in New York Citys East Harlem for five years. He received his PhD and MA degrees from Columbia University a Masters of Divinity from the Union Theological Seminary and his BS in aerospace engineering from Brown University.