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Access the Experts: Tamara Williams

In this installment, Williams answers: “What are charter schools and why do people talk about them so much?”

  • published: 2021/03/18
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Access the Experts is an innovative partnership between the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and News Channel Nebraska (NCN), where viewers submit their questions to be answered by UNO faculty members.

In This Installment of Access the Experts

Tamara Williams, Ph.D., an assistant professor of educational leadership, answers the question: “What are charter schools and why do people talk about them so much?”

About Williams

Williams has been an educator since the 90s with background as a teacher, behavior interventionist, assistant principal, and district administrator in Nebraska. She is also the former Director of Assessment, Research, and Evaluation of Millard Public Schools, also in Nebraska, where she supervised buildings, led assessment innovations, program evaluations, data storage and reporting, and data professional development.

She has research interests that include Nebraska trends in education, Nebraska student attendance and relationship to outcomes, evaluation approaches in education, and leadership identity.

Access the Experts

Access the Experts is an innovative partnership between the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and News Channel Nebraska (NCN), where viewers submit their questions to be answered by UNO faculty members.

New segments of Access the Experts air every Tuesday at 6:46 A.M.

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