The Center for Applied Policy in Education (CAP-Ed) at UC Davis
facilitates the nexus among research, policy, and practice to
foster a thoughtful, well-informed education system in
California. CAP-Ed provides nonpartisan, research-supported
information and expertise from scholars, policymakers, and
practitioners to those making policy as well as to those in
schools and school districts who interpret and implement it.
CAP-Ed’s services to both state policy makers and local school
and district educators include:
Providing syntheses of current research in order to inform
policymaking and policy implementation at all levels of the
education system
Conducting new policy research on key education policy topics
such as school finance, accountability, and English Learner
education
Working with school superintendents to provide unique small
group leadership seminars with the country’s most renowned
experts on school/district improvement
Carrying out in-depth analyses of English Learner programs
and services for school districts
Offering seminars to policymakers and education stakeholders
on key education topics.
Davis Campbell, who retired as Executive Director of the
California School Boards Association in 2001, has a distinguished
career in public education. Prior to his retirement from CSBA
(1988-2001), Campbell served as Executive Director of the
California Institute for School Improvement and managing partner
of SRA Associates. (1983-88). From 1977 to 1983 he served as
Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of
California.
Julie Maxwell-Jolly began her career in education teaching
English learner and immigrant students in the Los Angeles Unified
School District. She has a variety of additional education
experience including as a Lecturer at UC Davis, supervisor of
student teachers at CSU Sacramento, community college liaison for
migrant education, and working with legal organizations to design
and conduct workshops for parents of EL and immigrant students.
To paraphrase Dostoevsky, the quality of a society should be
measured by the quality of its schools, particularly the
quality of its schools educating the most disadvantaged
children.
Thomas Timar’s areas of expertise include education finance,
policy, and governance. In addition to his faculty
responsibilities, he is also director of the UC Davis Center for Applied Policy in Education
(CAP-Ed) and a member of the steering committee for Policy
Analysis for California Education (PACE).
The Center for Applied Policy in Education (CAP-Ed) at
UC Davis facilitates the nexus between the worlds of
research, policy, and practice to foster a thoughtful,
well-informed education system in California.
CAP-Ed provides a broad range of services to both state policy
makers and local school and district educators. CAP-Ed helps
schools and other education organizations synthesize current
research, conduct research, evaluate programs, develop reform and
school improvement strategies and implement them.
