About

Henry Levin is an Emeritus Professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. His research interests include Economics and Education as well as Educational Policy. He is associated with the Graduate School of Education and has a full profile available on Stanford Profiles. Levin has contributed to the field through his focus on improving lives through learning and has been recognized in the media for his work. His contact information includes an office at ANKO 307 and an email address HL361@columbia.edu.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Economics
• Medicine
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Social Science
• Economic growth
• Nursing
• Public relations
• Engineering
• Social psychology
• Psychology
• Management science
• Medical education
• Risk analysis (engineering)
• Gender studies

Selected publications

• Education Across the African Diaspora

  2023-09-18 · 1 citations

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• ESOPs and the Financing of Worker-Cooperatives

  2023-04-26

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• Employment and Productivity of Producer Cooperatives

  2023-04-26 · 3 citations

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• Obstacles to the Survival of Democratic Workplaces

  2023-04-26 · 1 citations

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• Introduction—The Power of Education Across the African Diaspora: Exploring New Solutions for Old Problems

  2023-09-18

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  This chapter outlines the power of pursuing educational research across the African diaspora, especially in a context of reckoning with COVID-19 and anti-Black police violence. To complement current educational research on Black education, the authors then highlight the increasing power of comparative, international, and interdisciplinary perspectives to identify new methodological, practical, and policy solutions to long-standing structural and cultural inequalities in education. Critical, interdisciplinary analyses of education across the African diaspora provide us with some innovative insights urgently needed to mitigate structural and cultural inequalities that continue to devalue Black lives in dark times across the globe. The authors seek to bridge gaps in education studies and African diaspora studies scholarship, noting these "interconnected particulars" as central to a fuller understanding of the history and futurity of African descendants around the world.

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• Work in America and the Cooperative Movement

  2023-04-26 · 1 citations

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• The Prospects for Worker Cooperatives in the United States

  2023-04-26

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• Charter Schools: Rending or Mending the Nation

  CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder) · 2021-09-09 · 1 citations

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  <p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #f8f8f8;">The book,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Choosing Charters: Better Schools or More Segregation?,</em>&nbsp;published by Teachers College Press,&nbsp;presents a variety of perspectives about the societal and educational roles charter schools have played and might play in the future. We are making available the chapter written by Henry Levin, which explores the tension between private goals and public goals. In it, Levin explores the need to reconcile the differences between private and public benefits of charter schools, providing a common framework that will encompass the needs of both the individual and society. <p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #f8f8f8;">For the complete book,&nbsp;<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Choosing Charters: Better Schools or More Segregation?</em>, please see:&nbsp;<a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1c3667; text-decoration-line: none;" href="https://www.tcpress.com/choosing-charters-9780807758991" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.tcpress.com/choosing-charters-9780807758991</a>

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• The Power of Education Across the African Diaspora: Exploring New Solutions for Old Problems

  Peabody Journal of Education · 2021 · 2 citations

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  The intellectual, cultural, and political contributions of the African diaspora have long gone underacknowledged in educational research. Furthermore, the historical, social, and economic powers of...

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• Estimating a Price Tag for School Vouchers

  CU Scholar (University of Colorado Boulder) · 2021-05-25 · 1 citations

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  &lt;div class="post__content-wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: #f8f8f8;"&gt;\n&lt;div class="post__body" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"&gt;\n&lt;div class="field--name-body" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"&gt;\n&lt;p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"&gt;School vouchers, a school choice policy that allows students and families to use public funds to fully or partially pay the cost of attending private schools, became a major area of policy debate once again during Betsy DeVos&amp;rsquo;s tenure as United States Secretary of Education. Recent evaluations have found negative impacts of vouchers on academic outcomes among students using them, particularly on academic test scores, although older research has found mixed results. However, the input side has received less research attention; we know relatively little about the costs of implementing voucher systems. This policy brief provides an overview of the literature on the effects and costs of vouchers and applies recent empirical evidence on policy effects, behavioral responses, and contextual factors to determine administrative costs of a universal voucher system. It concludes with recommendations for further research and policy.&lt;/p&gt;\n&lt;/div&gt;\n&lt;/div&gt;\n&lt;/div&gt;

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Frequent coauthors

• Clive Belfield

  42 shared

• Russell W. Rumberger

  15 shared

• Robert Shand

  9 shared

• Mun C. Tsang

  Columbia University

  9 shared

• A. Brooks Bowden

  University of Pennsylvania

  7 shared

• Robert T. Stout

  7 shared

• James W. Guthrie

  6 shared

• George B. Kleindorfer

  6 shared

Education

• Ph.D., Economics

  Rutgers University New Brunswick

  1966

• B.S., Stern School

  New York University

  1960