Bruce Baker is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His most recent book Educational Inequality and School Finance is available through Harvard Education Press Group: https://www.hepg.org/hep-home/books/educational-inequality-and-school-finance. Now available!
Baker combines historical background, legal analysis, and political and economic contextual data—along with a gleaming wit—to present a thorough, enlightening narrative of Kansas’s K–12 funding journey.
Bruce Baker draws on his many years of research to destroy the myth that money in education doesn’t matter, and convincingly argues that equitable and adequate funding are prerequisites for an effective education system.
Helen (Sunny) ladd (back cover notes)
- Full Length CV
- Google Scholar
- News Coverage (all)
- Tech Crunch Profile
- Teachers College (Columbia) alumni profile: Amicus Not-So-Brief
- Rutgers Experts in the News
- Learning Policy Institute Senior Fellows
- #73 in the 2022 Education Week/RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings
- #65 in the 2021 Education Week/RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings
The tricky thing about a smarty pants like Baker is he uses statistics to back up his claims.
Justin Kendall, The Pitch (Kansas City)
Podcasts:
- NEPC Talks Education: An Interview with Bruce Baker and Preston Green About Pandemic Relief Funds
- Have you Heard: Merchants of Doubt
Interview & News Coverage:
- NJ Spotlight on 2022 School Funding Report
- New Jersey School Funding Reform Act at 10
- Press Conference on NJPP (2021) Report on Racial Disparities
- Charter School Real Estate Deals (in Michigan) Raise Ethical Questions
Panels & Lectures:
UCEA Mistifer Lecture (November 2021)
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond: District Dialogues
Shanker Institute: COVID Pandemic and K12 Funding
Shanker Institute: Supplement not Supplant
National Press Club/Century Foundation: Restoring the Promise of Community College
Trinity College: How and Why Money Matters in Connecticut School Finance
Shanker Institute 2019: Cutting through the Clutter
Johns Hopkins discussion on informing state school finance reform
Opportunity & Equity – Shanker Institute
Harvard GSE Askwith Forum
On Race to the Top & Federal Policy
Stealth Inequities in School Funding (Center for American Progress)
New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association Legislative Policy Forum
School Finance 101 