Kevin G. Welner

Kevin G. Welner (born 1963) is professor of education at the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education, where he chairs the Educational Foundations Policy and Practice program area. He co-founded[1] and is Director of the National Education Policy Center. He has authored or edited 11 books[2] and more than 100 articles and book chapters[3][4] concerning education policy and law.

Kevin G. Welner
Born(1963-12-26)December 26, 1963
Los Angeles, California, USA
NationalityAmerican
AwardsEarly Career Award 2006, American Educational Research Association
Palmer O. Johnson Award 2005, American Educational Research Association
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, BA 1985
University of California, Los Angeles, JD 1988
University of California, Los Angeles, PhD 1997
Doctoral advisorJeannie Oakes
Academic work
DisciplinePolicy Analysis
InstitutionsNational Education Policy Center
University of Colorado Boulder

Education and Career

Welner received a B.A. from University of California-Santa Barbara, a J.D. at UCLA School of Law, and a Ph.D. from UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.[4] During his early career he received a National Academy of Education/Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship.[5]

Welner joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education in 1999 as an Assistant Professor.[6] He became a Professor in 2009. where he serves as a professor of educational foundation policy and practice.[4]

In 2014, Welner co-founded the Schools of Opportunity awards project, which seeks to "highlight public high schools that actively seek to close opportunity gaps."[7]

Recognition (awards/honors)

In 2012, Welner was inducted as an American Educational Research Association Fellow.[8] Welner is notable for making technical research documents that are accessible to the general public,[9] and for participating in public academic debates on education reform issues such as standardized testing[10] and school choice.[11] Other awards and recognitions include:

  • Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award, American Educational Research Association, 2017[12]
  • Early Career Award, American Educational Research Association, 2006[13]
  • Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award, American Educational Research Association, 2005[14]
  • Spencer Fellows, conferred by National Academy of Education, 2000[15]

Views and Research

Welner has studied the public right to education, tracking, school vouchers, school choice, educational equity, and the use of research.[4][16]

Vouchers and School Choice

In 2005, Welner conducted research on school vouchers as a resident of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.[4][17] That research was later published as a major work on school vouchers, NeoVouchers: The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling. The book provided an early explanation of the legal and policy issues surrounding a then-new type of private school vouchers. These neo-vouchers were created by giving large tax credits for donations to organizations that then packaged those donations as vouchers to fund tuition.[18][19] Welner's work on school choice is employed and reviewed in several publications.[20][21][22]

gollark: Before they made it so that toolcrafting actually involved tradeoffs.
gollark: In TiC v1.
gollark: There *used* to be.
gollark: (added locally, I mean)
gollark: Okay, the first three are added, still looking for what TE/TiC stuff exists.

References
  1. Sparks, Sarah D. (29 September 2010). "Think Tank Critics Launch Policy Center - Education Week". Education Week. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  2. "WorldCat Profile for Welner, Kevin Grant 1963-". WorldCat. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  3. "Google Scholar Citations for Kevin Welner". scholar.google.com.
  4. "Kevin Welner's Curriculm Vitae at CU Boulder". School of Education. 4 September 2013. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  5. "2000 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows - National Academy of Education". National Academy of Education. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  6. "Kevin Welner". School of Education. 2013-09-04. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
  7. Strauss, Valerie (May 5, 2017). "How three schools creatively face the challenge of educating immigrant students". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
  8. "AERA Fellows". www.aera.net.
  9. McSpadden, Kay. "We must attack opportunity gaps at their root causes". charlotteobserver. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  10. Levesque, Patricia; Welner, Kevin (4 May 2015). "Is Testing Students the Answer to America's Education Woes?". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 May 2018.
  11. Hobson, Jeremy (13 October 2016). "A Closer Look At The Debate Over Charter Schools". www.wbur.org. Retrieved 18 May 2018.
  12. "Meet the Colorado education researcher you can actually understand". Chalkbeat. 2017-04-24. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
  13. "Early Career Award". www.aera.net. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
  14. "Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award". www.aera.net. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
  15. "2000 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows". National Academy of Education. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
  16. "Source Profile for Kevin Welner - Education Writers Association". Education Writers Association.
  17. Welner, Kevin. "Tax credits, school choice and 'neovouchers': What you need to know". The Conversation. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  18. Schaeffer, Adam B. (19 June 2009). "Book Review: NeoVouchers: The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling". Journal of School Choice. 3 (2): 200–202. doi:10.1080/15582150902987566.
  19. Anomaly, Jonny (17 May 2011). "Book Review: Neovouchers: The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling" (PDF). Education Review. 14. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
  20. "Letter: Detroit students need funding, not charter hype". Detroit News. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
  21. "DeVos, charters, & 'school choice' hurt African American children". Washington Examiner. 2019-07-12. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
  22. Foody, Kathleen (2019-06-28). "Fatal shooting complicates future of Colorado charter school". AP NEWS. Retrieved 2019-08-31.
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