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Rebecca A. Maynard
University Trustee Professor of Education and Social Policy
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Education
1971: B.A. Economics, University of Connecticut, Phi Beta Kappa
1975: Ph.D. Economics, University of Wisconsin
Areas of Expertise
Education and social welfare policy
Economics of education
Experimental and qualitative research methods
Research synthesis methods
Professional
Biography
Since 1993, Dr. Maynard has been the University Trustee Chair Professor of Education and Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. She teaches courses in research methods, economics, and education policy; directs the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Predoctoral Training Program in Interdisciplinary Methods for Education Research; is faculty advisor for International Programs; and maintains an active research agenda focused on youth risk reduction and skills attainment. Since 2004, she also has served as senior program associate with the William T. Grant Foundation.
Prior to joining the University of Pennsylvania faculty, Dr. Maynard was senior vice president at Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. There, she directed many large-scale social experiments and studies examining issues related to welfare policy, employment and training policy, alternative and adult education programs, services for teenage parents, teenage pregnancy prevention, and child care policy.
Dr. Maynard is an active member of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, the American Economics Association, the American Educational Research Association, and the Population Association of America. She serves on the Academic Board for the Western International School of Shanghai (WISS); the advisory board for the Center for the Future of Children, and the editorial boards for Evaluation, and Effective Education.
Research Interests
and Current Projects
Dr. Maynard currently is completing a manuscript on the costs of teen childbearing, directing a study of Distributed Leadership Training and Professional support funded by the Annenberg Foundation and a study of the 21st Century Skills Project funded by the William Penn Foundation; co-authoring a hands-on graduate-level text on designing and conducting randomized controlled trials in education with support from the Institute of Education Sciences; and conducting comparative research in education, with an emphasis on U.S., Asian, and Middle Eastern systems.
Dr. Maynard is on leave for the 2007-08 academic year.
Courses Taught
EDUC 591: Program Evaluation and Policy Analysis
EDUC 601: Economics of Education
EDUC 605: Contemporary Issues in Education Policy
EDUC 680: Programs, Policies, and Evaluation in Education (with R. Boruch)
EDUC 751: Quantitative Research Methods in Education
EDUC 838: Advanced Quantitative Research Methods in Education
EDUC 545: Doctoral Seminar in School Choice
EDUC 545: Field-based Research Workshop: School Choice Policies and Practices
EDUC 900: Seminar in Systematic Review Methods in Education
WWS 515: Program and Policy Evaluation (Princeton University)
WWS 591: Workshop in Field-based Research in Education (Princeton University)
Selected Publications
Saul Hoffman and Rebecca A. Maynard, Eds. (in press). Kids Having Kids: The economic and social consequences of teen childbearing (2nd ed.). Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
Paul Amato and Rebecca Maynard (2007). Decreasing nonmarital births and increasing marriage to reduce poverty. The Future of Children, Vol. 17, no. 2, Fall 2007.
Irma Perez Johnson and Rebecca A. Maynard (2007). The case for early targeted interventions to prevent academic failure. Peabody Journal of Education, Vol. 82, No. 4: pages 587-616.
http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/AHSchoenfeld/Schoenfeld_WhatDoesntWork2.pdf
Rebecca A. Maynard and Brian Wilcox (2007). Conducting field experiments of setting-level policies and practices. William T. Grant Foundation Annual Report. New York, NY. http://www.wtgrantfoundation.org/usr_doc/Maynard_Wilcox_essay_from_WT_Grant_AR_05-06.pdf
Rebecca A. Maynard. (2006). Presidential address: Evidence-based decision-making: what will it take for the decision makers to care? Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, vol. 25, no. 2, spring 2006, pp. 1 – 17.
Maynard, R. (2006). Evidence-based decision-making: What will it take for the decision makers to care? Presidential Address in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 25(2), pp. 1–17.
Cottingham, P., Maynard, R., & Stanger, M. (2005). Synthesizing evidence on the impacts of programs and policies in education, crime and justice, and social welfare: Practical recommendations based on 14 test-bed reviews. Evaluation and Research in Education, 18(1–2), pp. 28-53.
Maynard, R., & Corbett, T. (2003). Where we go from here? In M.C. Lennon & T. Corbett (Eds.), Policy into action: Implementation research and welfare reform. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute Press, pp. 303-320.
Maynard, R. (2001). Reactions to Family formation issues and welfare reform by Charles Murray. In R. Blank & R. Haskins (Eds.), The new world of welfare. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution.
Maynard, R. (2000). Whether a sociologist, economist, psychologist or simply a skilled evaluator: Lessons from evaluation practice in the U.S. Evaluation, 6(4), pp. 471–480.
Maynard, R., Corbett, T., & Boehnen, L. (1998). Changing family formation behavior through welfare reform. In R. Moffitt (Ed.), Welfare, the family, and reproductive behavior. Washington, DC: The National Academy Press.
Maynard, R. (Editor and contributing author.) (1997). Kids having kids: The costs and social consequences of teenage childbearing. Washington, DC: Urban Institute Press.
Maynard, R. (1997). The role for paternalism in teen pregnancy prevention and teen parent services. In L. Mead (Ed.), The new paternalism: Supervisory approaches to welfare. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution Press.
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