Faculty

Contact Information
The University of Georgia
Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
850 College Station Road
River’s Crossing, Room 317
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706) 363-0193 or
              (706) 542-7790
Fax: (706) 542-5873
Email eahouck@uga.edu

Research Interests

• Education finance and finance policy
• Intradistrict equity
• Student assignment policies

Courses Typically Taught

• EDAP 7600: Research Methods in Educational Administration and Policy
• EDAP 8210: Educational Policy Analysis
• EDAP 8600: Management and Analysis of Administrative Data
• EDAP 9020: Education Finance and Policy

Selected Publications

Books

	Guthrie, J.W. Springer, M.G., Rolle, R. A., & Houck, E.A. ( 2006). Modern Education Finance and Policy. Chicago: Allyn & Bacon.
	Houck, E.A. (Ed.). (2009). Georgia Education Policy Papers 2009. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Education Policy and Evaluation Center.

Refereed Journal Articles

Houck, E.A., Rolle, R.A., & He, J. (in press). Examining school district efficiency in Georgia. Journal of Education Finance.

Houck, E.A. (in press). Intradistrict resource allocation: Key findings and policy implications. Education and Urban Society.

Houck, E.A. & Kurtz, A. (in press). Resource allocation and graduation rates in SREB states: An overview. Peabody Journal of Education, 85(1).

Houck, E.A. (in press). Teacher quality and school resegregation: a resource allocation case study. Leadership and Policy in Schools, 9(1).

Houck, E.A. (2008). County funding versus municipal aspiration: A case study. Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership. 11(1), 81-86.

Rolle, R.A., Houck, E.A., & McColl, A. (2008). And poor children continue to wait: An analysis of horizontal and vertical equity among North Carolina school districts in the face of judicially mandated policy restraints 1996-2006. Journal of Education Finance, 34(1), 75-90.

Rolle, R.A., & Houck, E.A. (2007). Curious Georgia studies economics: A principal reflects on concepts of educational efficiency. The School Administrator, 64(5), 34-39.

Springer, M.G., Houck, E.A., Ceperly, P.E., & Hange, J. (2007). Revenue generation and resource allocation and deployment practices in smaller learning communities: Lessons learned from three high schools. Journal of Education Finance, 32(4), 462-488.

Chapters

Houck, E.A. (in press). Resource Allocation post-PICS. In DeBray-Pelot, E. and Frankenberg, E. (Eds.). Looking to the Future: Legal and Policy Options for Racially Integrated Education in the South and the Nation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Houck, E.A., & Mohammed, M.C. (2009). New directions in teacher compensation. In E.A. Houck, (Ed.). Georgia Education Policy Papers 2009 (pp. 66-75). Athens, GA: University of Georgia Education Policy and Evaluation Center.

Springer, M.G., Houck, E.A., & Guthrie, J.W. (2007). History and scholarship of United States education finance and policy. In H.F. Ladd & E.B. Fiske, (Eds.) Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy (pp. 3-22). New York: Routledge.

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