BOOKS

2008     

Baker, B.D., Green, P.C., Richards, C.E. (2008) Financing Education Systems. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill/Prentice-Hall, 448 pages

2004     

Baker, B.D., Richards, C.E. (2004) The Ecology of Educational Systems: Data and Models for Improvisational Leading and Learning. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill/Prentice-Hall. 280 pages.

JOURNAL   & LAW REVIEW  ARTICLES

In Press             

Baker, B.D., Green, P.C. (In Press) Equal Educational Opportunity and the Distribution to State Aid to Schools: Can or should racial composition be a factor? Journal of Education Finance

Green, P.C. Oluwole, J., Baker, B.D. (In press) No Child Left Behind: Racial Equal Educational Opportunity through School Finance Litigation. Journal of Gender, Race and Justice

Baker, B.D. (In Press) Evaluating Marginal Costs with School Level Data: Implications for the Design of Weighted Student Allocation Formulas.  Education Policy Analysis Archives

2008      

Green, P.C., Baker, B.D., Oluwole, J. (2008) Obtaining racial equal educational opportunity through school finance litigation. Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties IV (2) 283-338

Baker, B.D. (2008) Doing more harm than good? A commentary on the politics of cost adjustments for wage variation in state school finance formulas. Journal of Education Finance 33 (4) 406-440

2007      

Morphew, C., Baker, B.D. (2007) On the Utility of National Data for Estimating Generalizable Price and Cost Indices in Higher Education. Journal of Education Finance  33 (1) 20-49

Baker, B.D, Orr, M.T., Young, M.D. (2007) Academic Drift, Institutional Production and Professional Distribution of Graduate Degrees in Educational Administration. Educational Administration Quarterly  43 (3)  279-318

Baker, B.D., Wolf-Wendel, L.E., Twombly, S.B. (2007) Exploring the Faculty Pipeline in Educational Administration: Evidence from the Survey of Earned Doctorates 1990 to 2000. Educational Administration Quarterly 43 (2) 189-220

2006      

Green, P.C., Baker, B.D., Oluwole, J. (2006) Race Conscious Funding Strategies in School Finance. Boston University Public Interest Law Journal 16 (1) 39-72LR

Baker, B.D. (2006) Evaluating the Reliability, Validity and Usefulness of Education Cost Studies. Journal of Education Finance 32 (2) 170-201 [i] (GS 9)

Green, P.C., Baker, B.D. (2006) Urban Legends, Desegregation and School Finance: Did Kansas City really prove that money doesn’t matter? Michigan Journal of Race and Law 12 (1) 57-105 [LR]

Baker, B.D., Dickerson, J. (2006) Charter Schools, Teacher Labor Market Regulation and Teacher Quality: Evidence from the Schools and Staffing Survey. Educational Policy 20 (5) 752-779

Wolf-Wendel, L, Baker, B.D., Twombly, S., Tollefson, N., & Mahlios, M.  (2006) Who’s Teaching the Teachers? Evidence from the National Survey of Postsecondary Faculty and Survey of Earned Doctorates.  American Journal of Education 112 (2) 273-300

2005      

Baker, B.D., Cooper, B.S. (2005) Do Principals with Stronger Academic Backgrounds Hire Better Teachers? Policy Implications for High Poverty Schools. Educational Administration Quarterly 41 (3) 449-479

Baker, B.D., Green, P.C. (2005) Tricks of the Trade: Legislative Actions in School Finance that Disadvantage Minorities in the Post-Brown Era American Journal of Education 111 (May) 372-413

Baker, B.D.  (2005) The Emerging Shape of Educational Adequacy: From Theoretical Assumptions to Empirical Evidence.  Journal of Education Finance 30 (3) 277-305 (GS 3)

Green, P.C., Baker, B.D. (2005) Montoy v. Kansas and Racial Disparities in School Funding: Will the Kansas Courts Get it Right this Time?  West’s Education Law Reporter April, 21 681-696

Baker, B.D. (2005) What will it take to make Kansas School Funding “Cost-Based?” Kansas Policy Review 27 (2) 21-30  [i]

Green, P.C., Baker, B.D. (2005) History of School Finance Reform and Litigation in Kansas. Kansas Policy Review 27 (2) 2-6[i]

2004     

Baker, B.D., Friedman-Nimz, R.C. (2004) State Policy Influences Governing Equal Opportunity: The Example of Gifted Education. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis  26 (1) 39-64 (GS 3)

Morphew, C.C., Baker, B.D. (2004) The Cost of Prestige: Do New Research I Universities Incur Higher Administrative Costs? Review of Higher Education 27 (3) 365-384

Wood, R.C., Baker, B.D. (2004) An examination and analysis of the equity and adequacy concepts of constitutional challenges to state education finance distribution formulas. University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review 27 125 [lr]

Baker, B.D., Duncombe, W.D. (2004) Balancing District Needs and Student Needs: The Role of Economies of Scale Adjustments and Pupil Need Weights in School Finance Formulas. Journal of Education Finance 29 (2) 97-124 [i] (GS 3)

Baker, B.D. (2004) A Closer Look at the Costs of Serving Children Living on the Edges: At Risk, Limited English Proficient & Gifted Children. Educational Considerations 32 (1) 42-54 [i]

2003     

Baker, B.D. (2003) State policy influences on the internal allocation of school district resources: Evidence from the Common Core of Data. Journal of Education Finance 29 (1) 1-24(GS 1)

Baker, B.D. McIntire, J. (2003) Evaluating State School Funding for Gifted Education Programs. Roeper Review 26 (3) 173-179

Baker, B.D., Friedman-Nimz, R.C. (2003) Gifted Children, Vertical Equity and State School Finance Policies and Practices. Journal of Education Finance 28 (4) 523-556

Baker, B.D., Green, P.C. (2003) Commentary: The Application of Section 1983 to School Finance Litigation. West’s Education Law Reporter. 173 (3) 679-696

2002     

Baker, B.D., Richards, C.E. (2002) Exploratory Application of Systems Dynamics Modeling to School Finance Policy. Journal of Education Finance 27 (3) 857-884

Baker, B.D., Friedman-Nimz, R.C.  (2002) Determinants of the Availability of Opportunities for Gifted Children: Evidence from NELS ’88. Leadership and Policy in Schools 1 (1) 52-71

Baker, B.D., Markham, P. (2002) State School Funding Policies and Limited English Proficient Children. Bilingual Research Journal 26 (3) 659-680

Baker, B.D., Friedman-Nimz, R.C. (2002) Is a Federal Mandate the Answer? If so, what was the question? Roeper Review 25 (1) 5-10 [GS 1]

Green, P.C., Baker, B.D. (2002) Circumventing Rodriguez: Can plaintiffs use the Equal Protection Clause to challenge school finance disparities caused by inequitable state distribution policies? Texas Forum on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights 7 (2) 141 – 165 [lr]

2001     

Baker, B.D. (2001) Gifted Children in the Current Policy and Fiscal Context of Public Education: A National Snapshot & Case Analysis of the State of Texas. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 23 (3) 229-250

Baker, B.D. (2001) Can Flexible Non-linear Modeling Tell Us Anything New About Educational Productivity? Economics of Education Review 20 (1) 81-92 (GS 24)

Baker, B.D. (2001) Living on the Edges of School Funding Policy: The Plight of At-Risk, Limited English Proficient and Gifted Children. Educational Policy 15 (5) 699-723 (GS 1)

Baker, B.D. (2001) Balancing Equity for Students and Taxpayers: Evaluating School Finance Reform in Vermont.  Journal of Education Finance 26 (4) 437-462  (GS 4)

Baker,B.D. (2001) Measuring the Outcomes of State Policies for Gifted Education: An Equity Analysis of Texas School Districts. Gifted Child Quarterly 45 (1) 4-15 (GS 3)

2000      

Baker, B.D., Keller-Wolf, C., Wolf-Wendel, L. (2000) Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Race, Ethnicity and Academic Achievement in Education Policy Research. Educational Policy 14 (4) 511-529  (GS 9)

Wolf-Wendel, L., Baker, B.D., Morphew, C. (2000) Dollars & $ense: Resources and the Baccalaureate Origins of Women Doctorates. Journal of Higher Education 71 (2) 165-186 (GS 11)

1999      

Baker, B.D., Richards, C.E. (1999) A Comparison of Conventional Linear Regression Methods and Neural Networks for Forecasting Educational Spending. Economics of Education Review 18 (4) 405 – 416 (GS 16)

Baker, B.D., Imber, M. (1999) "Rational Educational Explanation" or Politics as Usual? Evaluating the Outcome of Educational Finance Litigation in Kansas. Journal of Education Finance 25 (1) 121-139 (GS 1)

Baker, B.D. (1999) Politics of the Production Function: The Influence of Political Bias on the Deductive Process. Educational Policy 13 (1&2) 123-135 [i] (GS 1)

1998      

Baker, B.D., Richards, C.E. (1998) Equity through Vouchers: The Special Case of Gifted Children. Educational Policy 12 (4) 363-379

COMMENTARY/EDITORIALS/REVIEWS

2008      

Baker, B.D. (2008) Assessing and Using Educational Data Sources for School and Leadership Research. UCEA Implications Series.  www.ucea.org

Baker, B.D. (2008) Review of the Fordham Institute Report Fund the Child: Bringing Equity, Autonomy and Portability to Ohio School Finance. Education Policy Research Unit. Think Tank Review Project.

2007      

Baker, B.D. (2007) Review of the Buckeye Institute Report Shortchanging Disadvantaged Students: An analysis of intra-district spending patterns in Ohio. Education Policy Research Unit. Think Tank Review Project.

Baker, B.D. (2007) Review of The Friedman Foundation Report School Choice by the Numbers. Education Policy Research Unit. Think Tank Review Project. http://epsl.asu.edu/epru/ttreviews/EPSL-0705-235-EPRU.pdf

2006     

Baker, B.D., Rebell, M. (2006) Robbing Peter to Pay Paul: Weighted Student Funding is not the 100% Solution. Education Week 11/29/06

BOOK CHAPTERS

Research Compilations

In Press             

Baker, B.D., Elmer, D.R. (In Press March 2009) The Politics of Off-the-Shelf School Finance Reform. In C. Lubienski (ed) Yearbook of the Politics in Education Association. Sage Publications.

Baker, B.D., Green, P.C., (In Press January 2009) Separate and Unequal by Design: What’s the Matter with the Rising State Role in Kansas? The Rising State in Education. Bruce S. Cooper, Lance Fusarelli, Bonnie Fusarelli, Editors. State University of New York Press.

Baker, B.D., Green, P.C. (In Press) Conceptions, Measurement and Application of Educational Adequacy Standards. In D.N. Plank (ed) AERA Handbook on Education Policy. New York: Routledge

2008     

Baker, B.D., Green, P.C. (2008) Politics, Empirical Evidence and Policy Design: The Case of School Finance and the Costs of Educational Adequacy. In B.S. Cooper, L. Fusarelli, J. Cibulka (eds) pp. 311 – 337. Handbook of Education Politics and Policy. New York: Routledge

Green, P.C., Baker, B.D. (2008) The No Child Left Behind Act and the Re-Emergence of Equal Educational Opportunity Litigation, in Our Promise: Achieving Educational Equity for Americas Children (M. Dyson & D. Weddle, eds., Carolina Academic Press).

Baker, B.D., Green, P.C. (2008) Conceptions of Equity and Adequacy in School Finance. In H.F. Ladd and E.B. Fiske (eds) Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy New York: Routledge. pp. 203-221

1999     

Cooper, B.S., Cilo, M.R. & Baker, B.D. (1999) Making the transition from school to college: The case of New York City Public Education.  In American Education Annual: Trends and Issues in the Educational Community (1998-1999).  New York, NY: Gale Research.

Baker, B.D. (1999) Politics of the Production Function: The Influence of Political Bias on the Deductive Process. In Vance Randall and Bruce Cooper (Eds.), pp. 123-135, Accuracy or Advocacy: The Politics of Research in Education. Yearbook of The Politics in Education Association. Thousand Oaks: Corwin Press, Sage Publications.

Instructional

2001     

Baker, B.D. (2001) New Tools for Strategic Decision-Making: Systems Thinking Applied with ITHINK. In G. Ivory, What Works in Computing for School Administrators? Scarecrow Press

Baker, B.D. (2001) Back to School: Systems Modeling and the Educational Setting. In G. Ivory, What Works in Computing for School Administrators? Scarecrow Press

Monograph Annuals 

2001     

Baker, B.D. (2001) Evolving Again: Environmental Pressures and Increasing Disequilibrium in Kansas School Finance. In Christopher F. Roellke (Ed.) In Search of a More Equitable and Efficient Education System. Proceedings of the 2001 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Fiscal Issues, Policy, and Educational Finance – Special Interest Group. Seattle, WA.

2000      

Baker, B.D. (2000) Full State Control Out of Control: School Finance in Kansas in the 1990s. in Brian O. Brent (Ed.) The Political Economy of Education: the State of the States and Provinces. Proceedings of the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Fiscal Issues, Policy, and Educational Finance – Special Interest Group. Montreal, QE.

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

Journal Articles: Under Review (Revise & Resubmit)

Baker, B.D. Within and Between District Resource Allocation and the Cost Sensitivity of School Site Expenditures: Evidence from Texas. Education Finance and Policy

Killeen, K., Baker, B.D. Addressing the Moving Target: Should measures of student mobility be included in education cost studies? Education Finance and Policy

Fuller, E., Young, M.D., Baker, B.D. Career Paths and the Influence of School Principals on Teachers. Educational Administration Quarterly

Journal Articles: Under Review (1st round)

Punswick, E., Baker, B.D., Belt, C. Principal backgrounds and school leadership stability: Evidence from Missouri. Educational Administration Quarterly