Huriya Jabbar is an associate professor in the Educational Policy and Planning program in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy. Her research uses sociological and critical theories to examine how market-based ideas in PK-12 and higher education shape inequality, opportunity, and democracy in the U.S. She is currently studying school choice policy and school leaders' behavioral responses to competition; choice and decision-making in higher education; and teacher job choices, recruitment, and retention.
Her work has been published in the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Harvard Educational Review, Educational Administration Quarterly, Educational Researcher, and Sociology of Education. She received Early Career Award in 2020 from the American Educational Research Association's Division L (Policy and Politics). She was a 2013 recipient of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship and a 2016 NAED/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, which supported a study exploring teachers' job search processes, and the role of their social networks, in three charter-dense cities: New Orleans, Detroit, and San Antonio.
She is also affiliated with the National Center for Research on Education Access and Choice and the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans at Tulane University, where she continues to study issues related to school choice in New Orleans, and is a Faculty Research Affiliate at the Population Research Center at UT.
Huriya received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz, an M.A. in Economics from the New School for Social Research, and Ph.D in Education Policy, Organization, Measurement, & Evaluation from the University of California, Berkeley.
Ph.D. in Educational Policy (Organization, Measurement and Evaluation), University of California, Berkeley
M.A. in Economics, New School for Social Research
B.A. in Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz
Jabbar, H., Cannata, M., Germain, E. & Castro, A. (2019). Its who you know: The role of social networks in a changing labor market. American Educational Research Journal. doi:https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/10.3102/0002831219879092.
Jabbar, H., Castro, A. & Germain, E. (2019). To switch or not to switch? The influence of school choice and labor market segmentation on teachers job searches. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 41(3), 375399.
Jabbar, H., Fong, C., Germain, E., Li, D., Sanchez, J., Sun, W. & Devall, M. (2019). The competitive effects of school choice on student achievement: A systematic review. Educational Policy. doi:https://journals-sagepub-com.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/doi/full/10.1177/0895904819874756.
Jabbar, H. (2017). Recruiting talent: School choice and teacher hiring in New Orleans.. Educational Administration Quarterly. (View)
Holme, J., Jabbar, H., Germain, E. & Dinning, J. (2017). Rethinking teacher turnover: Developing new measures of instability in schools. Educational Researcher. (View)
Jabbar, H. (2016). Between structure and agency: Contextualizing school leaders strategic responses to market pressures. American Journal of Education, 122(3), 399–431.
Jabbar, H. (2016). The visible hand: Markets, politics, and regulation in post-Katrina New Orleans schools. Harvard Education Review, 86(1), 1–26.
Jabbar, H. (2015). Competitive networks and school leaders perceptions: The formation of an education marketplace in post-Katrina New Orleans. American Educational Research Journal, 52(6), 1093–1131. (View)
Jabbar, J. (2015). Every kid is money: Market competition and school leader strategy. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 37(4), 638–659. (View)
Jabbar, H. (2015). Drenched in the past: The evolution of market-oriented reforms in New Orleans. Journal of Education Policy, 30(6), 751–722.
Scott, J., Jabbar, H., Goel, P., DeBray, E. & Lubienski, C. (2015). Evidence use and advocacy coalitions: Intermediary organizations and philanthropies in Denver, Colorado. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 23(124), 1–23. http://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/article/view/2079.
Scott, J. & Jabbar, H. (2014). The hub and the spokes: Foundations, intermediary organizations, incentivist reforms, and the politics of research evidence. Educational Policy, 28(2), 233–257.
DeBray, E., Scott, J., Lubienski, C. & Jabbar, H. (2014). Intermediary organizations in charter school policy coalitions: Evidence from New Orleans. Educational Policy.
Jabbar, H. (2013). The case of payment-by-results: Re-examining an incentive program in 19th-century English schools. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 45(3), 220–243.
Jabbar, H. (2011). The behavioral economics of education: New directions for research. Educational Researcher, 40(9), 446–453. (View)
Jabbar,, H.., Serrata, C.., Epstein, E.. & Sanchez, J.. (n.d.). Échale ganas: Family and community support of Latino/a community college students transfer to four-year universities. Journal of Latinos and Education.
Early Career Award, American Educational Research Association - Division L (2020)
Outstanding Reviewer Award, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, American Educational Research Association (2017)
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation (2016)
Dissertation Award, AERA Division L (Policy & Politics) (2015)
Dissertation Award, AERA Division A (Administration, Organization, & Leadership) (2015)
Dissertation Award, Politics of Education Association (2015)
Outstanding Doctoral Research Award, Emerald/EFMD (2014)
Dissertation Fellow, National Academy of Education / Spencer Foundation (2013 - 2014)
David Clark Scholar, University Council for Educational Administration (2011 - 2012)
Lebon D James, Ph.D., expected 2022 (Supervisor)
His research examines the role of principals, K-12 educational leadership preparation, and school improvement.
Edgar Manuel Torres (Committee Member)
Priscilla S Aquino-Garza (Supervisor)
Sissi D O'reilly (Committee Member)
My current dissertation research seeks to understand and interpret how principal leadership intersects with social network theory in order to effectively enact school improvement and changes through development of culture, communication, and leadership behaviors in a network context using qualitative research methods and social network analysis of principal ego-networks. These investigations will participate in the discourse regarding the manifestations of power dynamics in school leadership, the contexts in which school reform decisions are made, and...
Rachel W Boggs (Supervisor)
Olivia A Johnson (Committee Member)
Olivia's research primarily focuses on theories of care and care ethics, policy meaning-making, and the various intersections between care, education policy, and student socioeconomic stratification.
Sebastian O Nunez (Supervisor)
Sebastian is interested in privatization and its effects on the teaching profession
Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley (Committee Member)
I study hidden inequities in higher education as they manifest in financial aid practices, community colleges, gender and the student affairs profession, and teaching and learning
