Financing the education policy discourse: philanthropic funders as entrepreneurs in policy networks

“Outsiders with Deep Pockets”: The Nationalization of Local School Board Elections

Capacity and Equity: Federal Funding Competition Between and Within Metropolitan Regions

Policy Cues and Ideology in Attitudes toward Charter Schools

Network governance and regional equity: Shared agendas or problematic partners?

The Distinct Patterns of Organized and Elected Representation of Racial and Ethnic Groups

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Sarah Reckhow is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Michigan State University. Her research and teaching interests include urban politics, education policy, nonprofits and philanthropy, and racial and ethnic politics. Reckhow’s work on urban schools has focused on policy reforms in New York City, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Detroit. Her award-winning book with Oxford University Press, Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics, examines the role of major foundations, such as the Gates Foundation, in urban school reform. Reckhow was awarded a research grant from the W.T. Grant Foundation (with Megan Tompkins-Stange) to study the use of research evidence in the development of teacher quality policy debates. She has recently published articles in the Journal of Urban Affairs, Policy Studies Journal, and Planning Theory. Reckhow is affiliated with the Global Urban Studies Program and the Education Policy Center at Michigan State. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. Previously, Reckhow taught history and government at Frederick Douglass High School in the Baltimore City Public Schools.

Philanthropy

Racial Politics

State Politics

Education Policy

Every Student Suceeds Act

Local Politics

Ethnic Politics

Rocky Path Ahead as Chicago Transitions to Elected School Board

The rise of Black homeschooling

Experts expect high voter turnout among MSU students. The question is where they'll vote.

Reforms we voted for two years ago have prepared Michigan for pandemic voting

Detroit and Flint keep relying on private money to solve public problems. Why?

MSU-led internship program helps Detroit move forward

Special education funding falls more heavily on urban school districts

How Silicon Valley Pushed Coding Into American Classrooms

Learn from the costly mistakes of failed EAA

Sarah Reckhow

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Research and Resources: Examining the Federal Policy Debate on Teacher Evaluation

Sarah Reckhow: Examining the Federal Policy Debate on Teacher Evaluation

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