Between Public and Private

Katrina Bulkley is an associate professor of educational leadership at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Bulkley holds an MA in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a PhD in administration and policy analysis from the Stanford University School of Education. She is the coeditor, with Priscilla Wohlstetter, of Taking Account of Charter Schools: What’s Happened and What’s Next? (Teachers College Press, 2004) and, with Lance Fusarelli, of “The Politics of Privatization in Education: The 2007 Yearbook of the Politics of Education Association,” which was published as a special double issue of Educational Policy.

Jeffrey R. Henig is a professor of political science and education at Teachers College, Columbia University and a professor of political science at Columbia University. He earned his PhD in political science at Northwestern University in 1978. His most recent book, Spin Cycle: How Research is Used in Policy Debates; The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation/Century Foundation, 2008), won the 2010 American Educational Research Association “Outstanding Book” award.

Henry M. Levin is the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education at Teachers College and the David Jacks Professor of Higher Education and Economics, Emeritus, at Stanford University. He is also the director of the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education (NCSPE) and codirector of the Center for Benefit Cost Studies in Education (CBCSE), both at Teachers College. Levin has published extensively in the area of the economics of education and educational policy.