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, equity and diversity in schools; and the intersection between housing and education policy.

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://journals.sagepub.com/doi/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:.

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:.

Finnigan, K. & Holme, J. (2018). The political geography of inter-district integration. Peabody Journal of Education, 93(4), 367-377. doi:.

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:.

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:.

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 desegregation’s 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.

Growing Up as Rents Rise: How Housing Affordability Affects Parents and Children