Thomas Timar
Professor of Education, Director of CAP-Ed
Phone: (530) 754-6654
Email: tbtimar@ucdavis.edu
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.
Expertise
Education Policy and Governance; International education policy and governance; School finance
Education
- Ph.D., Educational Policy (Law and Finance) - UC, Berkeley
- MA., Comparative Literature (German, Hungarian, Russian) UC Berkeley
- BA. Comparative Literature (Russian, German, Hungarian)
Highlighted Publications
- T. Timar (2006) State Strategies to Improve Low-Performing Schools: California’s High Priority School Grants Program. UC Davis, Center for Applied Policy in Education. School of Education
- T. Timar (2006) Evaluating State Intervention: The High Priority Schools Grant Program. Crucial Issues in California Education2006: Rekindling Reform. University of California, Berkeley: Policy Analysis for California Education, School of Education. www.pace.berkeley.edu
- T. Timar (2005) Exploring the Limits of Entitlement: Williams v. the State of California. Peabody Journal 80 (3)
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Professional Experience
- Professor, UC Davis
- Associate Professor, UC Riverside
- Associate Professor, Visiting, UC Berkeley
- Associate Professor, Visiting, Stanford
- Assistant Professor, Visiting, Harvard
Awards and Honors
- Spencer Fellowship. Spencer Foundation, “Local Responses to State Policy.” 1991-1993.0.0
Associations, Boards & Committees
- Director of Research, Governor’s Advisory Committee on Education Excellence (2006-07)
- Trainer/Consultant. International Policy Fellows Program, Open Society Institute. 2000-2003.
- Director, UC Education Abroad Program, Budapest, Hungarey
- Consultant,Open Society Institute/Soros Network. Budapest, Hungary. 2001.
- Director, Central European University, Summer University, Education Policy Program. 1998-2002.
- Panelist. Research Advisory Panel. Education Commission of the States; Governing America’s Schools Project. 1998-2000.
- Consultant, United Nations Development Program, Ukraine.
- Consultant, USAID, Montenegro
- Consultant, Ministry of Education, Lithuania
- Consultant, Ministry of Education, Latvia
- Consultant, National Institute for Education, Budapest Hungary
Courses Taught at UC Davis
- Education Policy: Concepts and Methods
- Education Policy and Law
- Politics of Education: Who Controls Schools?
- Education Finance Policy
- The Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
Funded Research
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: State Strategies to Improve Low-performing Schools: California’s High Priority Schools Grant Program
- Office of the President, University of California. (With Rodney Ogawa) A study of the political and institutional forces that shaped UC’s current outreach efforts; institutional and organizational responses to outreach in the UC system.
- Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California, Berkeley. Study of other states’ policy responses to the elimination of affirmative action in university admissions.
- National Science Foundation, Enhancing Math and Science Instruction: A Comprehensive Study of the Role of State Education Departments and Other Agencies.
- Culpepper Foundation Gran: The Emerging State Role in Education Policy Making
- Culpepper Foundation. School Restructuring and The Coalition of Essential Schools
- Spencer Foundation Small Grant,The Politics of School Restructuring.
- Southwest Bell Foundation. State policy and school restructuring.
- Utah State Department of Education , Policy Evaluation of the Utah Career Ladder System.
- California Post-Secondary Commission.(Co-Principal Investigator) Staff Development in California.