Tom Timar
Professor and Director at University of California, Davis
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- University of California, Davis
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Biography
University of California, Davis
To paraphrase Dostoevsky, the quality of a society should be measured by the quality of its schools, particularly the quality of its schools educating the most disadvantaged children.
Thomas Timar’s areas of expertise include education finance, policy, and governance. In addition to his faculty responsibilities, he is also director of the UC Davis Center for Applied Policy in Education (CAP-Ed) and a member of the steering committee for Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE).
Research Interests
Education finance; Education policy and governance; Educational leadership; International education policy and governance; Education policy and educational improvement
Education
- Ph.D., Educational Policy (Law and Finance) – UC, Berkeley
- MA., Comparative Literature (German, Hungarian, Russian) UC Berkeley
- BA. Comparative Literature (Russian, German, Hungarian)
Professional Experience
- Professor, UC Davis
- Associate Professor, UC Riverside
- Associate Professor, Visiting, UC Berkeley
- Associate Professor, Visiting, Stanford
- Assistant Professor, Visiting, Harvard
Awards and Honors
- National Academy of Education/Spencer Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2010
- Spencer Fellowship. Spencer Foundation, “Local Responses to State Policy,” 1991-1993
- National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1990
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