Rate My Professor Michael Podgursky

Podgursky has published extensively on education policy and teacher quality, including the book Teacher Pay and Teacher Quality co-authored with Dale Ballou in 1997. His influential articles include "Teacher performance pay: A review" (2007, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management), "The academic quality of public school teachers: An analysis of entry and exit behavior" (2004, Economics of Education Review), "How to improve the supply of high-quality teachers" (2004, Brookings Papers on Education Policy), and "Reforming teacher preparation and licensing: What is the evidence?" (2000, Teachers College Record). His research has received grants from the U.S. Departments of Education, Labor, and Agriculture, as well as private foundations. He serves on the editorial boards of Education Finance and Policy and Peabody Journal of Education, and on the boards of the National Center for Teacher Quality and the Missouri Show-Me Institute. Podgursky has consulted on school finance litigation for numerous states and organizations, and is a co-investigator at the National Center for Performance Incentives and the CALDER Center. A member of the American Economic Association, American Education Finance Association, and Society of Labor Economists, he received the William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence.