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EMPLOYMENT

    The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, Senior Fellow, January 2000 - present.
    University of Texas at Austin, Assistant Professor, July 1997 - May 2001.
    University of Houston, Assistant Professor, July 1994 - July 1997.

EDUCATION

    Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ph.D. in Political Science in June 1995; A.M. in Political Science in November 1991
    Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, B.A. in History, Summa Cum Laude in May, 1988; Grade Point Average: 3.9: Phi Beta Kappa 1987

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

    Presidential Appointment as a Trustee for the James Madison Memorial Foundation, 2003
    Distinguished Teaching Award, Harvard University, 1994
    Marshall Scholarship, 1988-90 (declined)
    Truman Scholarship, 1986-90
    National Merit Scholarship, 1984-88

BOOK

    Education Myths, book manuscript, with Greg Forster and Marcus A. Winters (forthcoming from Rowman and Littlefield).

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

    “Testing High-Stakes Tests: Can We Believe the Results of Accountability Tests?” with Marcus A. Winters and Greg Forster, Teachers College Record, volume 106, number 6, June 2004.

    “Competition Passes the Test,” with Marcus A. Winters, Education Next, Summer 2004. http://www.educationnext.org/20043/66.html

    “The Looming Shadow: Can the Threat of Vouchers Persuade a Public School to Turn Itself Around?  The Case of Florida Suggests Yes,” Education Next, Winter 2001. http://educationnext.org/20014/76.html

    “Vouchers in Charlotte,” Education Matters, volume 1, number 2, Summer 2001. http://www.educationnext.org/20012/46greene.html

    “The Hidden Research Consensus for School Choice,” Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education, Paul E. Peterson and David E. Campbell, editors, Brookings Institution Press: Washington, 2001.

    “Private Schooling and Political Tolerance,” with Patrick J. Wolf, Brett Kleitz, and Kristina Thalhammer, Charters, Vouchers, and Public Education, Paul E. Peterson and David E. Campbell, editors, Brookings Institution Press: Washington, 2001.

    “The Effect of Private Education on Political Participation, Social Capital, and Tolerance: An Examination of the Latino National Political Survey,” with Joseph Giammo and Nicole Mellow, Georgetown Public Policy Review, volume 5, number 1, Fall, 1999. http://www.georgetown.edu/publications/GPPR/

    “A Meta-Analysis of the Rossell and Baker Review of Bilingual Education Research,” Bilingual Research Journal, Fall, 1999. http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/pepg/pdf/biling.pdf

    “Private Schools and the Public Good: The Effect of Private Education on Political Participation and Tolerance in the Texas Poll,” with Nicole Mellow and Joseph Giammo Catholic Education, Volume 2, Number 4, June, 1999.

    “Effectiveness of School Choice: The Milwaukee Experiment,” Education and Urban Society, Volume 31, Number 2, pp. 190-213, January, 1999.

    “Vouchers and Central City Schools,” with Paul Peterson in The African-American Predicament, Christopher Foreman, editor, Brookings Institution Press: Washington, DC, 1999.

    “Civic Values in Public and Private Schools,” in Learning from School Choice, Paul E. Peterson and Bryan C. Hassel, editors, Brookings: Washington D.C., 1998.

    “School Choice in Milwaukee: A Randomized Experiment,” With Paul E. Peterson and Jiangtao Du, in Learning from School Choice, Paul E. Peterson and Bryan C. Hassel, editors, Brookings: Washington D.C., 1998.

    “Lessons from the Cleveland Scholarship Program,” with William G. Howell and Paul E. Peterson, in Learning from School Choice, Paul E. Peterson and Bryan C. Hassel, editors, Brookings: Washington D.C., 1998. http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/pepg/pdf/lessclev.pdf

    “Questioning by the Foreign Policy Committees,” with Paul E. Peterson, in The President, the Congress, and the Making of Foreign Policy, edited by Paul E. Peterson, University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. 

    “Why Executive-Legislative Conflict in the U.S. is Dwindling,” with Paul E. Peterson, British Journal of Political Science, January, 1994.

REPORTS and WORKING PAPERS

ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS

    “Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the United States,” with Greg Forster, Texas Education Review, Winter 2003-4. http://www.educationreview.homestead.com/2003GraduationRates.html

    “The GED Myth,” Texas Education Review, Summer 2002. http://www.educationreview.homestead.com/2002GreeneGEDMyth.html

    “The Business Model: Value added analysis is a crucial tool in the accountability toolbox – despite its flaws,” Education Next, Summer 2002. http://www.educationnext.org/20022/20.html

    “GEDs Aren’t Worth the Paper They’re Printed On,” City Journal, volume 12, number 1, Winter, 2002. http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_1_geds_arent.html

    “The Surprising Consensus on School Choice,” The Public Interest, number 144, Summer 2001. http://www.thepublicinterest.com/

    “Do Students Learn More Where Parents Have More Educational Choices?” The Journal of Private Enterprise, volume 16, number 2, Spring 2001.

    “The Texas School Miracle is for Real,” City Journal, Summer 2000. http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_3_the_texas_school.html

    “Should Public Discussion of Political Science Research be Controlled? Why Interest Group Recommendations on the Proper Procedures for Reporting Research Should be Treated with Skepticism,” with Paul E. Peterson, PS: Political Science and Politics, volume 33, number 2, June 2000.

    “If the Peer Review Attack Fails, Attack Something Else,” with Paul E. Peterson, PS: Political Science and Politics, volume 33, number 2, June 2000.

    “Integration Where It Counts,” Texas Education Review, volume 1, number 1, Spring 2000. http://www.educationreview.homestead.com/integration.html

    “Review of Presidential-Congressional Relations: Policy and Time Approaches by Steven A. Shull,” Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Number 1, pp. 171-2, Spring, 1999.

    “Race Relations and Central City Schools,” with Paul E. Peterson, Brookings Review, Spring 1988, pp. 33-37.

    “School Choice: What Does the Evidence Say?” in Vouchers for School Choice: Challenge or Opportunity? An American Jewish Reappraisal. Marshall J. Breger and David M. Gordis, editors, Wilstein Institute of Jewish Policy Studies: Brookline, MA, 1998.

    “The Effectiveness of School Choice in Milwaukee,” with Paul E. Peterson. Jiangtao Du, Leesa Boeger, and Curtis Frazier, The Madison Review, Winter 1997.

    “School Choice in Milwaukee,” with Paul E. Peterson and Chad Noyes, Public Interest, September, 1996.

    “Review of The Speaker edited by Ronald M. Peters, Jr.,” Journal of Legislative   Studies, v. 2, no. 2, Summer 1996.

    “Term Limits: A Measure of Our Ignorance,” Social Science Quarterly, v. 76 no. 4, December, 1995.

    “Forecasting Follies,” American Prospect, no. 15, Fall, 1993. http://www.prospect.org/print/V4/15/greene-j.html

    “Forewarned Before Forecast: Presidential Election Forecasting Models and the 1992 Election,” PS: Political Science and Politics, Volume 26, Number 1, March, 1993.

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