2015 NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service: Ph.D., Public Policy

SARAH A. CORDES 1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue, Ritter Hall 345 Cell: (215)204-6332 Philadelphia, PA 19122 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://education.temple.edu/faculty/sarah-cordes-phd

EDUCATION 2015 NYU 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

2010 SANFORD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY, DUKE UNIVERSITY: M.P.P.

2006 THE 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. Cordes and 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) “State Education 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UNPUBLISHED PAPERS Sarah A. Cordes.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

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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 2016 Association 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

2015 American 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

2014 Association 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

2013 Association for Education Finance and Policy, March 2013 North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International, Urban Economics Association, November 2013

2012 Association for Education Finance and Policy, March 2012 Association for Public Policy and Management, November 2012

2011 Association 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

September 2016 2 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. http://nepc.colorado.edu/thinktank/review-illinois-funding.

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 2012 Teaching Assistant, Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University 2009-2010 Teaching Assistant, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

HONORS AND AWARDS 2014-2015 NYU-PIRT Senior Fellowship 2014 Finalist, North American Regional Science Council Graduate Student-Led Paper Award 2014 Recipient, C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship 2014 Finalist, National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship 2013 First Runner Up, North American Regional Science Council Graduate Student Paper Award 2010-2014 IES-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

September 2016 3 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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