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Matthew Gardner Kelly

Pennsylvania State University

Matthew Gardner Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Education. He holds a PhD (educational policy & history of education) and MA (history) from Stanford University. An interdisciplinary scholar of education finance, he researches the history and politics of school funding and governance; the patterns, causes, and consequences of funding disparities in American public schools; and the interplay between geography, school funding, and inequality. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in AERA OpenTeachers College RecordPaedagogica HistoricaJournal of Educational Administration and History, and History of Education Quarterly