William Fowler

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Associate Professor

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Send email to wfowler@gmu.edu

Phone: (703) 993-9190
Fax: (703)993-2044

George Mason University, Fairfax Campus
Commerce II 106
4400 University Dr.
MS 4C2
Fairfax, VA 22030

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William J. Fowler, Jr. is an Associate Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education, George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. His areas of interest are school finance, education productivity, and teacher attrition and compensation. Email- wfowler@gmu.edu

Previously, Dr. Fowler was the program officer of the Education Finance Program in the Elementary and Secondary Education and Library Studies Division at the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), U.S. Department of Education from 1987 to 2006. He specialized in elementary and secondary education finance and education productivity research. He recently published a new approach to estimating geographic cost differences.

Dr. Fowler worked for NCES from 1987, before which he served as a supervisor of school finance research for the New Jersey Department of Education. He has taught school finance at Bucknell University and the University of Illinois, and served as a senior research associate for the Central Education Midwestern Regional Educational Laboratory (CEMREL) in Chicago and for the New York Department of Education. He received his doctorate in education from Columbia University in 1977. Prior to receiving his doctorate, he taught in public schools in New Jersey, served in a school district central office, and was a member of the local teacher's union bargaining committee and a county representative.

Dr. Fowler received the Outstanding Service Award of the American Education Finance Association (AEFA) in 1997, having served on its Board of Directors during the 1992–95 term, and was re-elected for the 2001–04 term. He served on the editorial board of the NCES Education Statistics Quarterly. He formerly served on the Board of Leaders of the Council for Excellence in Government, and was a 1997–98 Senior Fellow.