Jennifer Holme
Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy
Email: jholme@austin.utexas.edu
Office: SZB 3.804F
Office Hours: Fridays 3-5 by appointment
Email: jholme@austin.utexas.edu
Office: SZB 3.804F
Office Hours: Fridays 3-5 by appointment
Dr. Jennifer Jellison Holme is a Professor of Educational Policy and Planning in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy. Her research focuses on the politics and implementation of educational policy. Her research interests include: teacher turnover; high stakes testing (exit level testing); and school choice policy.
She received her Ph.D. in Education Policy (Urban Schooling) from UCLA, her Ed.M. in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and her B.A. in Sociology from UCLA.
Her work has been published in Educational Researcher; Review of Research in Education, Teachers College Record, Educational Policy, Educational Administration Quarterly, American Educational Research Journal, Review of Educational Research, and the Harvard Educational Review.
Ph.D. in Educational Policy (Urban Schooling), The University of California at Los Angeles
M.S.Ed. in Administration, Planning and Social Policy, Harvard University
B.A. in Sociology, University of California at Los Angeles, magna cum laude
Focuses on the politics and implementation of educational policy with an emphasis on school reform
Holme, J.J.. (2022). Growing up as rents rise: How housing affordability impacts children (forthcoming). Review of Educational Research.
Holme, J.J.., Castro, A.., Germain, E.., Haynes, M.., Sikes, C.. & Barnes, M.. (2020). Community schools as an urban school reform strategy: Examining partnerships, governance, and sustainability through the lens of the Full-service Community Schools Grant Program.. Educational Policy, (Published online, P. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904820901479.
Holme, J.J.., Frankenberg, E.., Sanchez, J.., Taylor, K.., De La Garza, S.. & Kennedy, M.. (2020). Subsidized housing and school segregation: Examining the relationship between federally subsidized affordable housing and racial and economic isolation in schools. Educational Policy Analysis Archives, 28(169). https://epaa.asu.edu/ojs/index.php/epaa/article/view/5290. doi:https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.28.5290.
Diem, S., Holme, J.J.., Edwards, W.L.., Haynes, M.. & Epstein, E.. (2019). Diversity for whom? Gentrification, demographic change, and the politics of school integration.. Educational Policy, 33(1), 16–43. doi:https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904818807316.
Finnigan, K. & Holme, J. (2018). The political geography of inter-district integration. Peabody Journal of Education, 93(4), 367–377. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956X.2018.1488391.
Holme, J.J.. & Finnigan, K.S.. (2018). Striving in common: A regional equity framework for urban schools: Harvard Education Press. (View)
Holme, J., Jabbar, H., Germain, E. & Dinning, J. (2018). Rethinking teacher turnover: Longitudinal measures of instability in schools. Educational Researcher, 47(1), 62–75. doi:https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X17735813.
Holme, J.J.., Finnigan, K.S.. & Diem, S.L.. (2016). Challenging boundaries, changing fate? Metropolitan inequality and the legacy of Milliken. Teachers College Record, 118(3), 1–40..
Finnigan, K.S.., Holme, J.J.. & Sanchez, J.. (2016). Regional equity as an educational policy goal: Tackling the root cause of educational failure.. The Education Law and Policy Review, 3, 166–208.
Scott, J. & Holme, J. (2016). The political economy of market-based educational policies: Race and reform in urban school districts, 1915 to 2016. Review of Research in Education, 40(1), 250–297. doi:https://doi.org/10.3102/0091732X16681001.
Holme, J.J.. & Diem, S.L.. (2015). Regional governance in education: A case study of the Metro Area Learning Community in Omaha, Nebraska. Peabody Journal of Education, 90(1), 156–177.
Welton, A.J.., Diem, S.L.. & Holme, J.J.. (2015). Color conscious, cultural blindness: Suburban school districts and demographic change.. Education and Urban Society, 47(6), 695–722.
Finnigan, K., Holme, J., Diem, S., Orfield, M., Luce, T., Hylton, N. & Matthis, A. (2015). Regional educational policy analysis: Rochester, Omaha, and Minneapolis Inter-District Arrangements. Educational Policy, 29(5), 780–814.
Holme, J., Diem, S. & Welton, A. (2014). Suburban school districts and demographic change: The technical, normative and political dimensions of response. Educational Administration Quarterly, 50(1), 34–66.
Holme, J.J.., Frankenberg, E.., Diem, S.L.. & Welton, A.J.. (2013). School choice in suburbia: The impact of choice policies on the potential for suburban integration.. Journal of School Choice, 7(2), 113–141.
Vasquez Heilig, J.. & Holme, J.. (2013). Nearly 50-Years post-Jim Crow: Persisting and expansive school segregation for African American, Latina/o and ELL students in Texas. Education and Urban Society, 45(5), 609–632.
Holme, J. (2013). Exit strategies: How low performing high schools respond to high school exit examination requirements.. Teachers College Record, 115(1).
Holme, J., Carkhum, R. & Rangel, V. (2013). High pressure reform: Examining urban schools response to multiple school choice policies. The Urban Review.
Holme, J. & Finnigan, K. (2013). School diversity, school district fragmentation, and metropolitan policy. Teachers College Record, 115(11), 1–29.
Holme, J. & Vasquez Heilig, J. (2012). High stakes decisions: The legal landscape of exit testing policies and the implications for schools and leaders. Journal of School Leadership, 22(6).
Holme, J. & Rangel, V. (2012). Putting school reform in its place: Social geography, organizational social capital, and school performance. American Educational Research Journal, 49(2), 257–283.
Holme, J., Welton, A. & Diem, S. (2012). Demographic change and colorblind response: A case study of a suburban San Antonio school district. Suburban School Districts and Demographic Change. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
Holme, J., Richards, M., Jimerson, J. & Cohen, R. (2010). Assessing the effects of high school exit exams. Review of Educational Research, 80(4), 476–526.
Wells, A.S.., Holme, J.J.., Revilla, A.R.. & Atanda, A.K.. (2009). Both sides now: The story of desegregations graduates: University of California Press.
Holme, J. & Richards, M. (2009). School choice and stratification in a metropolitan context: Inter-district choice and regional inequality. Peabody Journal of Education, 84(2), 150–171.
Margolis, J.., Estrella, R.., Goode, J.., Holme, J.J.. & Nao, K.. (2008). Stuck in the shallow end: Computing, race, and educational inequality: MIT Press.
Teacher Turnover and School Improvement: Examining the Mechanisms Through Which Instability Disrupts Schools, and How to Mitigate It
PI, Spencer Foundation, Chicago, IL, $1,000,000.00 ; Co-PI: Huriya Jabbar
PI, Spencer Foundation, Chicago, IL, $1,000,000.00 ; Co-PI: Huriya Jabbar
Investigating the Potential of Regional Collaboratives to Address Inequality and Isolation in Education (Phase 2)
PI, Ford Foundation, New York, NY, $200,000 ; Co-PIs Kara Finnigan/Myron Orfield, July 2012-December 2013.
PI, Ford Foundation, New York, NY, $200,000 ; Co-PIs Kara Finnigan/Myron Orfield, July 2012-December 2013.
Investigating the Potential of Regional Collaboratives to Address Inequality and Isolation in Education (Phase 1)
PI, Ford Foundation, New York, NY, $200,000 ; Co-PIs Kara Finnigan/Myron Orfield ) July 2010-June 2012
PI, Ford Foundation, New York, NY, $200,000 ; Co-PIs Kara Finnigan/Myron Orfield ) July 2010-June 2012
Steven Drake, Ph.D., expected 2028 (Supervisor)
Examines LGBTQIA+ youth equity and policy in education with an emphasis on queer and trans student's experiences and anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric.
Examines LGBTQIA+ youth equity and policy in education with an emphasis on queer and trans student's experiences and anti-LGBTQIA+ rhetoric.
Michael Reid Jr, Ph.D., expected 2025 (Supervisor)
Examines federal and state education policy implementation and politics with an emphasis on systems change and equity and K-12 public education as a public good in a post-COVID-19 world.
Examines federal and state education policy implementation and politics with an emphasis on systems change and equity and K-12 public education as a public good in a post-COVID-19 world.
Wajiha Saqib, Ph.D., expected 2025 (Supervisor)
SeongGyeong Park (Co-supervisor)
| Year | Semester | Course |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Spring | ELP 394E: Capstone: Policy Rsrch Prob |
| 2023 | Fall | ELP 384V: Poverty And Education Policy |
| 2022 | Fall | ELP 384V: Poverty And Education Policy |
| 2022 | Spring | ELP 390S: Social/Cul Context Of Educ |
| 2021 | Fall | ELP 384V: Poverty And Education Policy |
| 2021 | Spring | ELP 384V: Poverty And Education Policy |
| 2021 | Spring | ELP 390S: Social/Cul Context Of Educ |
| 2020 | Spring | ELP 384V: Poverty And Education Policy |
| 2019 | Spring | ELP 390S: Social/Cul Context Of Educ |
| 2018 | Fall | ELP 384V: Poverty And Education Policy |
| 2018 | Spring | EDA 388M: Socl/Cul Context Educ-Core Crs |
| 2017 | Fall | EDA 395: Adv Sem: Place, Opp & Ed |
| 2017 | Fall | EDA 395J: Poverty And Education Policy |
| 2016 | Fall | EDA 395J: Poverty & Education Policy-Epp |
| 2016 | Spring | EDA 388M: Socl/Cul Context Educ-Core Crs |
| 2015 | Fall | EDA 395: Adv Sem: Place, Opp & Ed |
| 2015 | Fall | EDA 395J: Poverty & Education Policy-Epp |
| 2015 | Spring | EDA 388M: Socl/Cul Context Educ-Core Crs |
| 2015 | Spring | EDA 395G: Policy Implementation Seminar |
| 2014 | Fall | EDA 381Q: Qualitative Research Design |
| 2014 | Fall | EDA 395J: Poverty & Education Policy-Epp |
| 2014 | Spring | EDA 388M: Socl/Cul Context Educ-Core Crs |
| 2014 | Spring | EDA 395G: Policy Implementation Seminar |
Growing Up as Rents Rise: How Housing Affordability Affects Parents and Children
