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:: Mentor Curriculum Vitae |
PROFESSOR THOMAS B. TIMAR
572 Montecito Blvd.
Napa, CA 94559
(707) 259-1067
e-mail: Thomas.Timar@ucr.edu
Graduate School
of Education
University of
California
Riverside, CA
92521
(909) 787-5228
EDUCATION
Ph.D:
University of California, Berkeley; Educational Policy (Law and
Finance)
MA:
University of California, Berkeley; Comparative Literature: German,
Hungarian, English
BA:
University of California, Berkeley; Comparative Literature: Russian,
German,
Hungarian
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2001 -
2002 Stanford University, School of Education, Visiting Associate
Professor
1992
- University of California, Riverside, Graduate School of Education,
Associate Professor
1998 -
2002 Education Policy Program Director, Central European University,
Budapest, Hungary
1997 -
1999 University of California, Education Abroad Program Director,
Central European Center; Budapest, Hungary
1993 -
1995 University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Education,
Associate Professor (inter-campus transfer from UC Riverside)
1989 -
1991 University of California, Riverside, Graduate School of Education,
Assistant Professor
1987 -
1989 Harvard Graduate School of Education, Department of
Administration, Planning and Social Policy, Visiting Assistant Professor
1986 -
1987 Far West Laboratory, San Francisco, CA, Educational Policy
Center, Director
1984 -
1985 Stanford University, Institute for the Study of Educational Finance
and Governance, Research Director
1983 -
1986 California Association of Community Colleges, Sacramento, CA,
Director, Governmental Affairs
1980 -
1983 California State Legislature, Assembly Office of Research,
Sacramento, CA, Principal Consultant
1979 -
1980 University of California, Berkeley, Assistant to the
Vice Chancellor
for Business and Administration
1969
–1977
High school teacher and administrator (English and history);
community college instructor (English and humanities)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Research Grants
1999 -
2000 Office of the President, University of California. (With Rodney
Ogawa) A study of the political and institutional forces that shaped UC’s
current
outreach efforts; institutional and organizational responses to outreach in
the UC
system. ($80,000)
2000 - 2003 Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of
California,
Berkeley. Study of other states’ policy responses to the elimination of
affirmative
action in university admissions. ($5000)
1994 -
1996 Principal Investigator and Project Director. National Science
Foundation Grant, "Enhancing Math and Science Instruction: A Comprehensive
Study of the Role of State Education Departments and Other Agencies."
($600,000)
1988 Culpepper
Foundation Grant ($10,000) for a study on school restructuring
for the Coalition of Essential Schools
1988
Principal investigator, "The Politics of School Restructuring," Spencer
Foundation Small Grant ($15,000)
1988 Soros
Foundation Grant and Hungarian Ministry of Education grant to
participate in an educational policy seminar in Budapest.
1988 Southwest
Bell Foundation Grant ($15,000)
1987-1988
Principal investigator, Policy Evaluation of the Utah Career Ladder
System. Prepared for the Utah State Department of Education and the Utah
State
Legislature; Far West Laboratory, San Francisco, CA. (1987) (with Mary
Amsler, Douglas Mitchell and Linda Nelson) ($135,000)
1987-1988
Co-principal investigator; Staff Development Study; California
Post-Secondary Commission. ($350,000)
Professional Affiliations
1991
- Fellow, American Academy of Education
1998-2000 Research Advisory Panel; Education Commission of the
States;
Governing America’s Schools Project
1998-1999
Research Advisory Panel; New Ohio Institute; Education Finance
Reform
1991-1993
Member, Governmental and Professional Liaison Committee, American
Education Research Association.
1989-1993 Co?director, California Educational Research
Cooperative, University of
California, Riverside
1987-1993
Member, Technical Advisory Panel, National Center for Educational
Statistics, U.S. Department of Education
1987-1999
Member, Board of Directors, Encino Foundation
1979
-1984 Member, Advisory Panel for Law and Education Study, Institute for
Educational Finance and Governance, Stanford University
1987
- American Education Research Association
Public Service
-
US policy development
- Education Commission of the States, Member, Advisory Panel on National
- Educational Governance Project; Commissioner, City of Napa Planning
- Commission; Member, Technology Finance Advisory Panel,
California Business
- Roundtable; Rhode Island Department of Education (management study);
- Statewide Systemic Initiatives Project, National Science
Foundation and
- Educational Development Corporation; Office of the Legislative
Analyst, California
- State Legislature; Hungarian National Institute for Educational Research;
California
- State Board of Education; National School Boards Association; Harvard
Agency
for International Development; Bureau of Early Childhood
Program and Special
- Education Programs, Massachusetts State Department of
Education; National
- Association of State Boards of Education, Washington, DC;
Office of Program
- Planning and Evaluation, Massachusetts Department of Education
International policy development
USAID and International City/County Management Association, decentralization
of education governance and finance (develop local administrative and
finance
plans) in the Republic of Montenegro; Principal Project Consultant,
Ukrainian
National Education Reform Project (Cabinet of Ministers, Deputy Prime
Minister,
Minister of Education) for Soros Network, UNDP, World Bank, EU, and British
Council; Open Society Institute and Ministry of Education, Lithuania,
Latvia,
Kazakhstan and Kyrgiztan; National Institute for Education, Hungary;
Institute for
Educational Policy, Open Society Institute, Hungary, Developing MA Programs
in
education policy and education policy institutes in ten Central/Eastern
European
and Central Asian countries; Open Society Institute, Institute for
Public Policy,
workshops in policy analysis
Litigation support
Expert witness, Williams v. State of California, American Civil
Liberties Union and
Morrison & Foerster LLP; State of California, Department
of Justice, Office of
the Attorney General (state school finance litigation support); Remcho,
Johansen
and Purcell, Attorneys (School finance analysis for the Serrano suit
on behalf of
defendant, State of California); Ohio State Department of Education
(litigation
support in school finance suit challenging constitutionality of the existing
system.);
United States Attorney, Department of Justice, San Francisco, CA; Coalition
of
Kansas Schools.
Review positions
- Reviewer
- American Education Research Journal
- Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
- Journal of Policy, Administration and Management
- Journal of Curriculum Studies
- The International Journal of Educational Reform
- Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis
- 1990 -
1996 National Research Center Proposal Review, Office of Educational
- Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education 1989
Early Childhood
Education Program Review for the Bureau of Early
- Childhood Programs, Massachusetts Department of Education Professional
Service
PUBLICATIONS
Books and book chapters
Timar,
T. & Kirp, D (1988). Managing Educational Excellence (Philadelphia:
Taylor and Francis, Stanford Series in Education and Public Policy, 1988)
(with
David L. Kirp and Foreword by Theodore Sizer)
Timar.
T. (1995). The Allocation of Educational Resources and School
Finance
Equity in Ohio. In Picus, L. (Ed.) Where Does the Money Go? Resource
Allocation in Elementary and Secondary Schools. Year Book of the American
Education Finance Association. Corwin Press
Timar,
T. (1994). "Program Design and Assessment Strategies in Chapter 1" in
Rethinking Policy for At-Risk Students, Kenneth Wong and Margaret Wang
(Eds.) (Series in Contemporary Educational Issues of the National
Society for the
Study of Education. Berkeley, CA: McCutchan Publishing Co.
Timar,
T. (1992). "Categorical Wars: School Finance Politics in California," in
Politics of Education Yearbook, 1992. Philip Zodhiates and Catherine
Marshall,
(Eds.) (Philadelphia: Falmer Press)
Timar,
T. (1991)."Urban Politics and State School Finance in California," in
Politics
of Education Yearbook, 1991. James Cibulka, Rodney Reed, Kenneth Wong,
(Eds.) Philadelphia: Falmer Press.
Timar,
T. (1991) "Alternative Teacher Compensation Schemes and School
Reform," in Teacher Compensation and Teacher Motivation, Larry Fraze,
(Ed.)
New York: Technomics,
Timar,
T. (1989) "The Politics of School Restructuring," in Politics of
Education
Yearbook, 1989; Douglas E. Mitchell and Margaret Goertz, eds. (Philadelphia:
Falmer Press) 1990. Partly reprinted in Law and Educational Policy, M. Yudof
and D. Kirp (Eds) St. Paul, Minn: West Law Publishing
Guthrie, J. & Timar, T. (1984) "Public Values and Public School Policy"
Educational Leadership (Fall 1984). Reprinted in Kaleidoscope:
Readings in
Education. New York: Houghton Mifflin
Journal articles and commissioned papers
Timar,
T., Ogawa, R. & Orillion, M. (2003) “Expanding the University of
California’s Outreach Mission.” Review of Higher Education. 27 (7)
Timar,
T. (2003) “School Governance in California: Shaping the Landscape of
Equity and Adequacy. “ Teachers College Record (forthcoming)
Timar,
T. (2003) “The ‘New Accountability’ and School Governance,” Peabody
Journal. 78 (4)
Timar,
T. (2002) “You Can’t Always Get What You Want: School Governance in
California” Institute for Democracy, Education and Access, UCLA.
(http://idea.gseis.ucla.edu/publication/williams/index.html.)
Timar,
T. & Yamashiro, K. (2003) “State Strategies for Low Achieving Schools”
with Kyo Yamashiro. (In review)
Timar,
T., Ogawa, R. & Orillion, M. (2001) “The University of
California’s
Outreach Strategy: Its Political and Institutional Origins,” with Rodney
Ogawa and
Marie Orillion. Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley and UCOP
Ogawa,
R. & Timar, T. (2002) “The Organization of School University
Partnerships,” with Rodney Ogawa. Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC
Berkeley and UCOP
Timar,
T. & Tyack, D. (1998) ‘The Invisible Hand of Ideology: Perspectives from
History on School Governance.” In Governing America’s Schoools with David
Tyack. National Commission on Governing America’s Schools. Education
Commission of the States
Timar,
T. (1997) “The Institutional Role of State Education Departments: A
Historical Perspective.” American Journal of Education. Vol.
105, No. 3.
Timar,
T. (1994) "Policy, Politics, and Categorical Aid: New Inequities in
California School Finance," Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis
16(2)
143-160
Timar,
T. (1994) "Federal Educational Policy and Practice: Building
Organizational
Capacity through Chapter 1," Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
16(1)
51-66.
Timar,
T. (1992) "Assessing the Quality and Effectiveness of Chapter 1
Services,"
Commissioned paper for the Chapter One Testing Advisory Committee, US
Department of Education.
Timar,
T. (1992) "Reform and Resistance," Essay review of In the Name of
Excellence by Thomas Toch. International Journal of Educational Reform
, Vol. 1,
No. 2 , 203-208.
Timar,
T. (1991) "A Theoretical Framework for Understanding Local Responses
to State Policy," Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Vol. 11, No. 4
(329?342) Partly reprinted in Law and Educational Policy, M. Yudof and
D. Kirp
(eds) (St. Paul, Minn: West Law Publishing)
Timar,
T. (1989) "The Politics of School Restructuring," Phi Delta Kappan,
Vol.
71, No. 4 (264?275; feature article)
Timar,
T. & Kirp, D. (1989) "State School Reform Efforts in the 1980s: Lessons
from the States," Phi Delta Kappan (with David L. Kirp) Vol. 70, No. 7
(504?511; Feature article)
Timar,
T. & Kirp, D. (1988) "State Strategies to Reform Schools: Treading
between A Regulatory Swamp and An English Garden," Educational Evaluation
and Policy Analysis. Vol. 10 (75?88)
Timar,
T. & Kirp, D. (1987) "Educational Reform and Institutional Competence,"
Harvard Educational Review. Vol.57, No. 3 (308?330) Partly reprinted
in Law
and Educational Policy, M. Yudof and D. Kirp (eds) (St. Paul, Minn: West Law
Publishing) 1991
Timar,
T. (1987) "Policy Paper on Adult Education and Noncredit Community
College Programs." Prepared for the
Commission to Review the Master Plan for Higher Education; Sacramento,
California.
Timar,
T. & Johnson, J. (1987) "Policy Paper on Adult Literacy." Prepared for
the
Commission to Review the Master Plan for Higher Education; Sacramento, CA
Timar,
T. (1981) "The Aftermath of Goss vs. Lopez in the Federal Courts" School
Law Journal. Vol. 9, No. 2 (123?141)
Stern,
D. & Timar, T. (1981) "Conflict and Choice in Public Education"
Education and Urban Society. Vol. 14, No. 4 (485?510)
TECHNICAL REPORTS
Timar,
T. (2001) Final Report: A Plan for Decentralizing Education
Finance and
Governance in the Republic of Montenegro. US Agency of International
Development Mission in Kosovo and Montenegro. Podgorica, Montenegro.
Timar,
T. (2001) Education Innovation and Renewal: A Five-Year Plan for
Elementary, Secondary, and Higher Education Reform in Ukraine. Cabinet of
Ministers and Prime Minister and United Nations Development Program. Kiev,
Ukraine.
Timar,
T. & Shablya, N. (2000) A Two-Year Technical Policy Development and
Implementation Technical Support Plan for Education Reform in Ukraine.
International Renaissance Foundation / Soros Network, Kiev and Institute for
Educational Policy / Soros Network, Budapest.
Timar,
T. (1999) A Model Master’s Program in Educational Policy and Education
Policy Institutes in Eastern and Central Europe. Institute for Educational
Policy / Open Society Institute. Budapest, Hungary
Timar,
T. & Nix, D. (2000) Project ATHENA: Three-Year Program Evaluation.
School of Education, University of California, Riverside. (With Deborah Nix)
(2000)
Timar,
T. (1992) Evaluation Design for Assembly Bill 1724 (School
Restructuring).
Legislative Analyst’s Office, Sacramento, CA.
Timar,
T., Kirst, M. & Kirp, D. (1997) Reforming Mathematics and Science
Education: Do State Education Agencies Matter? with Michael Kirst and David
Kirp. National Science Foundation.
Timar,
T. (1992) "If Restructuring is the Solution, What Is the Problem,"
California
Education Research Cooperative, UC Riverside.
Timar,
T. (1988) "Policy Evaluation Design for State Evaluation of the Carnegie
School Program." Prepared for the Office of Executive Planning,
Massachusetts
Department of Education.
Timar,
T. (1987) "The Environment of Reform in California" Policy Briefs
No. 2;
Far West Laboratory; San Francisco, CA.
Timar,
T. & Johnson, J. (1988) "Literacy" Policy Briefs No. 5; Far West
Laboratory; San Francisco, CA
Timar,
T. (1981) "The Use of Educational Technology in California's School: A
Report to the California State Legislature" Assembly Office of
Research,
Sacramento, CA.
Timar,
T. & Johnston, D. (1982) "Transition from School to Work: A Report to
the California State Legislature," Assembly Office of Research, Sacramento,
CA.
PRESENTATIONS
Academic
papers, presentations and invitational conferences Reclaiming
Accountability: Williams v. State of California. Presidential Invited
Session. American Education Research Association, 2002 Annual Meeting.
Chicago, IL.
Implications of UC’s School-University Partnerships for Governance, a paper
presented to the Clark Kerr Symposium on Education Leadership and
Governance, UC Berkeley, May 2001
Growing
Pains: Expanding the University’s Mission to Include K-12 Reform.
AERA Roundtable. AERA Annual Conference, Seattle, 2001
The
Political and Institutional Forces Shaping UC’s Response to
Affirmative
Action. Paper presented at the AERA annual conference, Seattle 2001
Policy
Reform as a Strategy for Institutional Reform. Meeting of the national
directors of the Open Society Institute/Soros Network. Budapest, Hungary.
2001
Evaluating
Programs in Education, Invited Conference, National Academy of Arts
and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, 1999.
The Role
of State Education Agencies in Mathematics and Science Reform.
AERA Symposium chair and presenter. San Diego, 1998.
The
Politics of Education: From Political Science to Multi-disciplinary Inquiry,
Critic, Politics of Education Symposium. AERA Annual Conference, San
Francisco, CA 1995
The
Politics of Faction in Redesigning the Welfare State, Roundtable on
Mischief
of Faction and Redesigning the Welfare State: Problems and Possibilities
with the
Coordinated Services Movement; Discussant; AERA Annual Conference, San
Francisco, CA 1995
New
Assessment Strategies for Chapter 1, Panel discussant. AERA Annual
Conference, Atlanta, GA. 1993
"School
Restructuring in an Era of Macro-Neglect." Panel chair and discussant;
AERA Annual Conference; San Francisco, CA; April 1992.
"Implementing Matriculation: Does Culture Count?" Discussant;
California
Community College League, Annual Conference; Santa Clara, CA; Nov.
1991.
"State
Policies and the Reorganization of Schools," invited workshop presentation
at the Annual Conference of the Coalition of Essential Schools; Chicago, IL.
1991.
"Restructuring: Beyond the Theories," Annual meeting of the Nevada
Association
of Supervision, Curriculum and Development and Phi Delta Kappan; Las Vegas,
NA, 1991.
"School
Reform and Restructuring: Lessons from the United States," National
Institute of Educational Research, Budapest, Hungary, 1990.
"Educational Politics for the New Century: An Overview of the 1989 Yearbook
of
Politics of Education Association." Presented at the American Education
Research
Association; Boston, MA, 1990
"Educational Technology and the Restructuring Movement: Multiple Views of A
New Marriage."
Discussant
at the American Education Research Association; Boston, MA, 1990
"Putting
It All Together: Sharing Responsibility for Success," Presented at the
conference on School Restructuring sponsored by the National Governors'
Association and the Education Commission of the States; Albuquerque, NM,
1990
"School Restructuring and School Reform," presented at the Policy
Conference on
School Restructuring, Coalition of Essential Schools, Brown University. 1989
"Global Decisions in Educational Policies," presented at the
Hungarian?American
Seminar on Educational Policy, Hungarian National Institute of
Education
Esztergom, Hungary. May, 1988
"American
Educational Policy and Public Values." Harvard?University of
Netherlands Exchange Program; Gronigen/Cambridge. Summer, 1988
"Teacher Reforms and School Improvement" presented at the American
Education
Research Association Annual Conference, New Orleans. 1988
"Managing
Educational Excellence: State Strategies to Reform Schools," presented
at the Association for Policy Analysis and Management, Annual Conference;
Austin, Texas. 1986
"Toward
Responsive Legal Institutions" UC Berkeley??Stanford Faculty Seminar
on Law and Education, 1980
"The
Impact of Proposition 13 on Summer School and Adult Education Programs"
presented at the American Education Research Association, San
Francisco,
March, 1979
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