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Rebecca Jacobsen

Associate Professor, College of Education
http://education.msu.edu/search/Formview.aspx?email=rjacobs%40msu.edu

Expertise

politics, education, politics of education

Current Research

accountability policies, school board elections

Selected Publications

  • Anagnostopoulos, Dorothea, Stacey A. Rutledge, and Rebecca Jacobsen. 2013. The infrastructure of accountability: Data use and the transformation of american education. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press.

  • Rothstein, Richard, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Tamara Wilder. 2008. Grading education: Getting accountability right. New York;Washington, DC;: Economic Policy Institute.

  • Jacobsen, Rebecca, and Andrew Saultz. 2016;2015;. Will performance management restore citizens' faith in public education? Public Performance & Management Review39 (2): 476.

  • Jacobsen, R., Snyder, J.(s) & Saultz, A.(s) (2014). “Informing or shaping public opinion?: The influence of accountability data on public perceptions of school quality.” American Journal of Education. 121(1): 1-27.

  • Jacobsen, R. & Saultz, A.(s) (2012). “Who should control education?: Public opinion trends since 1970.” Public Opinion Quarterly. 76(2): 379-390.

Government Focus

Local, National

Media Coverage

Americans support local control of schools
Why NAEP isn’t really ‘the nation’s report card’
K12 Parents and the Public

Public Service

Associate Director, Education Policy Center, MSU