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Eric A. Houck
Assistant Professor
Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy

Education
Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy
Peabody College, Vanderbilt University

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

book cover Guthrie, J.W. Springer, M.G., Rolle, R. A., & Houck, E.A. ( 2006). Modern Education Finance and Policy. Chicago: Allyn & Bacon.
book cover 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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