Matthew Steinberg
PhD StudentBiographical Overview
I am a fifth year doctoral student at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago and an Institute of Education Sciences Pre-Doctoral Fellow with the University of Chicago Committee on Education. I received my BA with high distinction in Economics and Sociology from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Public Affairs from the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously, I have been an investment banker and a New York City Teaching Fellow, teaching 5th grade in a low-income New York City community. During my tenure as a teacher, I completed an MSEd. with graduation honors in elementary education from the City College of New York and founded a non-profit tutoring company which provided individualized tutoring services to low-income students.
My research centers on issues of urban education policy. My dissertation, “Essays on Urban School Organization: Evidence from Chicago Public Schools,” explores how the political economy of schooling as well as a school’s social-organizational structure – the internal life of schools – impact school climate, student and teacher safety, and student academic and behavioral outcomes. My research is grounded in rigorous empirical and econometric methods while simultaneously focused on informing urban education policymakers and practitioners on the role of school organization in shaping a variety of policy-relevant schooling outcomes. As such, my work has a cross-disciplinary scope and benefits from collaboration with education researchers, policymakers and practitioners. Indeed, as a former elementary school teacher, my research – both in scope and its intended audience – is informed by my classroom experience in New York City. My work has also explored the manner in which adolescents allocate their out-of-school time and issues of access in higher education.
I am currently on the academic job market (2011-12 academic year) and will be interviewing at the APPAM fall conference and the AERA spring conference. You may contact me directly at msteinberg@uchicago.edu or through the Harris School’s graduate student coordinator, Cynthia Cook-Conley (c-cook@uchicago.edu) to schedule an interview. My advisors are Kerwin Charles, Stephen Raudenbush and Ofer Malamud. My current curriculum vitae and research papers are available for download.
Available Documents
Peer-Reviewed Articles (selected)
Steinberg, M. (2011). Educational choice & student participation: The case of the supplemental educational services provision in Chicago public schools. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 33(2), 159-182. [Download Paper]
Steinberg, M., Piraino, P. and Haveman, R. (2009). Access to higher education: Exploring the variation among U.S. colleges and universities in the prevalence of pell grant recipients. The Review of Higher Education, 32(2), 235-270. [Download Paper]
Burch, P., Steinberg, M. & Donovan, J. (2007). Supplemental educational services and NCLB: Policy assumptions, market practices, emerging Issues. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 29(2), 115-133. [Download Paper]
Policy Reports (selected)
Steinberg, M., Allensworth, E. & Johnson, D.W. (May 2011). Student and teacher safety in Chicago public schools: The roles of community context and school social organization. Consortium on Chicago School Research. [Download Paper]
Steinberg, M. (October 2010). Education tax credits: A review of the Rhode Island program and assessment of possibilities in Massachusetts. Pioneer Institute White Paper, No. 69. [Download Paper]
References
Professor Kerwin Charles
Edwin A. & Betty L. Bergman Distinguished Service Professor,
Harris School of Public Policy Studies
University of Chicago
1155 E. 60th Street, Suite 164
Chicago, IL 60637
Email: kcharles@uchicago.edu
Phone: 773-834-8922
Professor Stephen Raudenbush
Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology and the College; and Chair, Committee on Education,
University of Chicago
1126 East 59th St., Room SS 416
Chicago, IL 60637
Email: sraudenb@uchicago.edu
Phone: 773-834-1904
Professor Ofer Malamud
Assistant Professor
Harris School of Public Policy Studies
University of Chicago
1155 E. 60th Street, Suite 162
Chicago, IL 60637
Email: malamud@uchicago.edu
Phone: 773-702-2389
Elaine Allensworth
Senior Director and Chief Research Officer
Consortium on Chicago School Research at the
University of Chicago
1313 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Email: elainea@ccsr.uchicago.edu
Phone: 773-702-3364
Professor Carolyn J. Heinrich
Sid Richardson Professor of Public Affairs
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
University of Texas-Austin
P.O. Box Y
Austin, Texas 78713-8925
Email: cheinrich@austin.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-3200
Professor John Witte
Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1225 Observatory Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Email: witte@lafollette.wisc.edu
Phone: 608-262-3581
Contact Information
1155 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Email: msteinberg@uchicago.edu
