Huriya Jabbar is an assistant professor in the Educational Policy and Planning program in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy. Her research examines the social and political dimensions of market-based reforms and privatization in education. 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, and Educational Researcher. She received three awards for her dissertation, which examined school choice and competition in post-Katrina New Orleans, from the American Educational Research Association's Division L (Policy & Politics), Division A (Administration, Organization, & Leadership), and the Politics of Education Association special interest group. She is also affiliated with 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. She was a 2013 recipient of the National Academy of Education/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship and is a 2016 NAED/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, which will support a new study exploring teachers' job search processes, and the role of their social networks, in three charter-dense cities: New Orleans, Detroit, and San Antonio.
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
Huriya Jabbar's research examines the social and political dimensions of market-based reforms and privatization in education, including school choice and decision-making in K-12 and higher education contexts.
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.
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)
