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Allan Odden
  Professor

Allan R. Odden is a Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) and codirector of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education in the Wisconsin Center for Education Research. His research includes teacher compensation, education finance, school finance adequacy, school-based financing, school-based management, resource allocation and use, strategic use of human resources, and educational policy and its implementation. Recent publications include: Odden, Allan, & Lawrence Picus. (2008). School Finance: A Policy Perspective (4th ed.). New York: McGraw Hill. Odden, Allan, Lawrence Picus, & Margaret Goertz. (2007). Intergovernmental Aid Formulas and Case Studies. In Helen Ladd and Ted Fisk, Eds. Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy. Published on behalf of the American Education Finance Association. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. Odden, Allan, & Marc J Wallace Jr. (2006). New Directions in Teacher Pay. St. Paul, MN: Freeload Press. Odden, Allan, & Carolyn Kelley. (2002). Paying Teachers for What They Know and Do: New and Smarter Compensation Strategies to Improve Schools (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. Odden, Allan, & Sarah Archibald. (2001). Reallocating Resources: How to Boost Student Achievement without Asking for More. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press. Contact Information arodden@wisc.edu Phone: (608) 263-4260 Office: 653A Ed Sciences Mail Drop: 62 Website: http://www.education.wisc.edu/edadmin/textonly/peo Current Projects Helping the Nation Redesign Teacher Compensation: Technical Assistance, Outreach, and Information Local Practices Linked to Strategic Management of Human Capital: Practices to Recruit and Retain High-Quality Faculty and Measuring Teachers' Instructional Practice Strategic Management of Human Capital in Public Education Completed Projects Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) Cost of Teacher Turnover Study Creating and Implementing New Forms of Teacher Compensation Education Compensation and Its Impact on Student Achievement Evaluation of the Second Year of Implementation of the Cincinnati Public Schools' Teacher Evaluation System An Evidence-Based Approach to School Finance Adequacy in Wisconsin Human Resources Management and Improved Student Achievement: The Emerging Linkages Planning Grant to Develop a New Teacher Compensation Structure for Illinois and Chicago Redesigning the Education Human Resource Management System and Related Teacher and Educator Labor Markets Study of Pilot Performance Evaluation in Cincinnati Public Schools Teacher Compensation Outreach and Analysis