SARAH A. CORDES
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, Ritter Hall 345 / Cell: (215)204-6332Philadelphia, PA 19122 / E-mail:
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EDUCATION
2015NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service:Ph.D., Public Policy
Dissertation: Beyond School Walls: The Spillovers of School Choice, Residential Mobility, and Private Investments on Public Schools and Students
Committee: Amy Ellen Schwartz (Chair), Leanna Stiefel, Ingrid Gould Ellen
2010Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University: M.P.P.
2006The College of William and Mary: B.A. in History, Summa cum Laude
FIELDS
Education policy, economics of education, urban policy, labor economics, quantitative methods
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2015-Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Temple University
PUBLICATIONS
Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel, and Sarah A. Cordes. (Forthcoming) “Moving Matters: The Causal Effect of School Mobility in Student Performance.”Education Finance and Policy.
Sean P. Corcoran and Sarah A. Cordes. (Forthcoming) “The Economics of School Choice.” In The Handbook of School Choice, ed. Robert Fox and Nina Buchanan, Wiley Blackwell.
Sarah A. Cordesand Agustina Laurito. “Neighbourhood Outcomes.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, ed. Anthony M. Orum, Wiley-Blackwell.
Sarah A. Cordes, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel, and Jeffrey E. Zabel. (2015), “Is Neighborhood Destiny? Exploring the Link between Neighborhood Mobility and Student Outcomes” Urban Studies.
Sean P. Corcoran, Sarah A. Cordes, and Amy Ellen Schwartz.(2014) “StateEducation Expenditures.”In Sustaining the States: The Fiscal Viability of American State Governments, ed. Marilyn Rubin and Katherine Willoughby, CRC Press.
Leanna Stiefel and Sarah A. Cordes. (2014) “Measuring School Finance Equity Using School Finance Statistics.” In Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance, ed. Dominic J. Brewer and Lawrence O. Picus, SAGE Publications, Inc.
UNPUBLISHED PAPERS
Sarah A. Cordes. (2016) “In Pursuit of the Common Good: The Spillover Effects of Charter Schools on Public School Students in New York City.” Working Paper.
Sarah A. Cordes, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Leanna Stiefel. (2014) “Does Residential Mobility Harm School Performance?”Working Paper, Institute for Education and Social Policy, presented at Association for Education Finance and Policy Spring Conference, 2014.
Sarah A. Cordes. (2014) “Do Charter Schools Ruin Local Public Schools in Poor Neighborhoods? The Impact of Charter Schools on NYC Public School Resources.” Working Paper #02-14, Institute for Education and Social Policy.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS
2016Association for Public Policy and Management, June 2016
Rutgers Research Conference on Education Reform, Communities, and Social Justice, May 2016
Classical Liberal Institute Conference, Can Markets Save Education?, April 2016
Association for Education Finance and Policy, March 2016
2015American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, January 2015
Association for Public Policy and Management, November 2015
Rutgers Symposium on Housing, Segregation, and Poverty, November 2015
Association for Education Finance and Policy, March 2015
2014Association for Public Policy and Management, November 2014
North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Urban Economics Association, November 2014
New York City Department of Education Analytics Club, October, 2014
American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, May 2014
Association for Education Finance and Policy, March 2014
2013Association for Education Finance and Policy, March 2013
North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Urban Economics Association, November 2013
2012Association for Education Finance and Policy, March 2012
Association for Public Policy and Management, November 2012
2011Association for Public Policy and Management, Poster Session November 2011
STATS-DC Data Conference, July 2011
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Sarah A. Cordes and Agustina Laurito. “The Effect of Charter Schools on Neighborhood and School Segregation: Evidence from New York City.”
Sarah A. Cordes. “Off the Hook or Doubling Down? The Effect of School Finance Reform on Parental Investments in Children’s Human Capital”
Amy Ellen Schwartz, Keren Mertens Horn, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Sarah A. Cordes “Do Housing Vouchers Improve Academic Performance? Evidence from New York City.”
Sean P. Corcoran and Sarah A. Cordes.“The Continuing Impact of Democracy Prep Public Schools.”
PROFESSIONAL REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS
Sarah A. Cordes (2015). “High Levels of Student Mobility Mean That Kids Who Begin School in Poor Neighborhoods May Not Stay There.” Web blog post. London School of Economics Daily Blog on American Politics and Policy. 11 Mar. 2015.
Amy Ellen Schwartz & Sarah A. Cordes (2013). Review of “Understanding Illinois’ Broken
Education Funding System: A Primer.” Boulder, CO: National Education Policy
Center.
Sarah A. Cordes, Lila Nazar de Jaucourt, Amy Ellen Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel, and Meryle Weinstein. (2011). “An Analysis of Teacher Value-Added in New York City: A Report to the Legal Defense Fund.” Institute for Education and Social Policy.
Lauren Akers, Sarah A. Cordes, Mary Kingston, Jackson Miller, and Caleb Varner (2009). “Making North Carolina’s Teacher Salary Schedule More Effective: Report to the North Carolina General Assembly’s Fiscal Research Division and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.”
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2015 -Instructor, Critical Understanding of Social Science Research and Statistics for Decision-making, Temple University College of Education
2013-2014 Instructor, Regression and Introduction to Econometrics, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
2012Teaching Assistant, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University
2009-2010Teaching Assistant, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
HONORS AND AWARDS
2014-2015 NYU-PIRT Senior Fellowship
2014Finalist, North American Regional Science Council Graduate Student-Led Paper Award
2014Recipient, C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship
2014Finalist, National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship
2013First Runner Up, North American Regional Science Council Graduate Student Paper Award
2010-2014IES-PIRT Fellowship
GRANTS
“The Impact of the Democracy Prep Charter School Model on Academic Achievement and Civic Engagement: Evidence from Start-Up and Takeover Schools,” Democracy Prep Public Schools, with Sean Corcoran (PI). June 1, 2014 - August 31, 2015 ($100,000).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Member, APPAM Professional Development Committee 2016-
Member, Faculty Senate Lectures and Forums Committee 2015-
Participant, Education Policy Collaborative, 2016-
Member, Higher Education Faculty Search Committee, 2016
Facilitator, School Leadership for Change Seminar Series for Philadelphia School Partnership, 2016
First Student Representative, Policy Council, APPAM 2014 – 2015
Representative, APPAM Doctoral Pre-Conference Professional Development Workshop Planning Committee, 2013
Student Representative, NYU Graduate Commission, 2012 – 2014
Reviewer,Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Education Finance and Policy,Urban Studies, Teaching and Teacher Education, Educational Policy, Policy Studies Journal, The Social Science Journal, American Journal of Education
Reviewer, Urban Economics Association Graduate Student Paper Competition
Member, American Educational Research Association (AERA), Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM), Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP), Regional Science Association International (RSAI), American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA)
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