Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics, co-authored with Rebecca Jacobsen and Sarah Reckhow. Harvard Education Press, 2019.
The New Education Philanthropy: Politics, Policy, and Reform. Co-edited with Frederick M. Hess. Harvard Education Press, December 2015.
The End of Exceptionalism in American Education: The changing politics of school reform. Harvard Education Press, 2013.
Between Public and Private: Politics, Governance, and the New Portfolio Models for Urban School Reform, co-edited with Katrina E. Bulkley and Henry M. Levin, Harvard Education Press, October 2010. Winner of the Districts in Research and Reform SIG Best Book Award, 2012.
Spin Cycle: How Research Is Used in Policy Debates, The Case of Charter Schools. Russell Sage Foundation/The Century Foundation, 2008. Winner of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Outstanding Book Award, 2010.
Mayors in the Middle: Politics, Race and Mayoral Control of Urban Schools, co-edited with Wilbur C. Rich, Princeton University Press, 2004.
Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools, co-authored with Clarence N. Stone, Bryan D. Jones, and Carol Pierannunzi. University Press of Kansas, 2001. Named best book published in the field of urban politics in 2001 by the Urban Politics section of the American Political Science Association.
The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education, co-authored with Richard Hula, Marion Orr, and Desiree Pedescleaux, Princeton University Press, 1999. Named best book published in the field of urban politics in 1999 by the Urban Politics section of the American Political Science Association.
Shrinking the State: The Political Underpinnings of Privatization, co-authored with Harvey Feigenbaum and Chris Hamnett, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Rethinking School Choice: Limits of the Market Metaphor, Princeton Univ. Press, 1994. Paperback edition with new "Afterword" released in 1995.
Since 2000
Spencer Foundation, $49,087 to study “Outside Money in Local School Elections.” With Co-PI Sarah Reckhow and Rebecca Jacobsen, Michigan State)
Wallace Foundation, $1,009,000 to study whether and how major community institutions in three mid-sized cities can work together to tackle social and educational challenges in their local communities. Co-.PI (with Carolyn Riehl). 2014-2019.
Ford Foundation, Spencer Foundation, W.T. Grant Foundation, $70,000. To support“Are We Learning from K-12 Philanthropic Investments?” A project involving two conferences co-hosted by the EPSA Department of Teachers College and the American Enterprise Institute.
Spencer Foundation, $27,000 for a contract to support research and writing on “The End of Educational Exceptionalism in The United States,” 2010-2012.
Spencer Foundation, $71,600 for set of two conferences and edited volume related to “Contracting Regimes and Urban School Reform: Toward a New Understanding if Diverse Provider Models and the Exercise of Democratic Authority in a More Privatized Educational System,” co-principal investigator with Katrina Bulkley and Henry Levin.
Spencer Foundation, $40,000; Russell Sage Foundation, $30,000; The Century Foundation $30,000 for “Politics, Ideology, and Evidence: The New York Times/AFT Charter School Controversy and Its Implications for Democracy, Societal Learning, and the Application of Educational Research to Education Practice” (2005/2006).
Spencer Foundation, $390,000 for a study of politics, markets, and charter schools in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, co-principal investigator Michele Moser (July 1, 2001-December 31, 2002) (with Michele Moser).
Spencer Foundation, $34,900 for a study of DC charter schools, co-principal investigator Michele Moser (July 1, 2000-June 30, 2001) (with Michele Moser).
BOOKS
Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics, co-authored with Rebecca Jacobsen and Sarah Reckhow. Harvard Education Press, 2019.
The New Education Philanthropy: Politics, Policy, and Reform. Co-edited with Frederick M. Hess. Harvard Education Press, December 2015.
The End of Exceptionalism in American Education: The changing politics of school reform. Harvard Education Press, 2013.
Between Public and Private: Politics, Governance, and the New Portfolio Models for Urban School Reform, co-edited with Katrina E. Bulkley and Henry M. Levin, Harvard Education Press, October 2010. Winner of the Districts in Research and Reform SIG Best Book Award, 2012.
Spin Cycle: How Research Is Used in Policy Debates, The Case of Charter Schools. Russell Sage Foundation/The Century Foundation, 2008. Winner of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Outstanding Book Award, 2010.
Mayors in the Middle: Politics, Race and Mayoral Control of Urban Schools, co-edited with Wilbur C. Rich, Princeton University Press, 2004.
Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools, co-authored with Clarence N. Stone, Bryan D. Jones, and Carol Pierannunzi. University Press of Kansas, 2001. Named best book published in the field of urban politics in 2001 by the Urban Politics section of the American Political Science Association.
The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education, co-authored with Richard Hula, Marion Orr, and Desiree Pedescleaux, Princeton University Press, 1999. Named best book published in the field of urban politics in 1999 by the Urban Politics section of the American Political Science Association.
Shrinking the State: The Political Underpinnings of Privatization, co-authored with Harvey Feigenbaum and Chris Hamnett, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Rethinking School Choice: Limits of the Market Metaphor, Princeton Univ. Press, 1994. Paperback edition with new "Afterword" released in 1995.
Public Policy and Federalism: Issues in State and Local Politics, St. Martin's Press, 1985.
Neighborhood Mobilization: Redevelopment and Response, Rutgers University Press, 1982.
Gentrification in Adams Morgan: Political and Commercial Consequences of Neighborhood Change, GW Washington Studies, no. 9, Center for Washington Area Studies, George Washington University, 1982.
RECENT JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Prospects for Grassroots Influence: Can we be realistic without being fatalistic?” Urban Affairs Review (2019), originally published online July 16, 2019.
”Blurring Lines? How Locally-based Collaborations Handle the Redistribution/Development Tradeoff.” Co-authored with Melissa Arnold Lyon. Urban Affairs Review (2017), 1-25.
“Outsiders with Deep Pockets”: The Nationalization of Local School Board Elections.” Co-authored with Sarah Reckhow, Rebecca Jacobsen, and Jamie Alter Litt (2016). 53:3: Urban Affairs Review, 1-27.
“Local Politics and Portfolio Management Models: National Reform Ideas and Local Control.” Co-authored with Katrina E. Bulkley. Peabody Journal of Education (2015) 90 (1): 53-83.
“The Politics of Testing When Measures ‘Go Public’” Teachers College Record, special section on Validity: When Education Measures Go Public –Stakeholder Conversations on How and Why Validity Breaks Down, edited by Madhabi Chatterji, (September 2013): v. 115 (9), 11 pages.
“The Politics of Data Use,” Teachers College Record, special issue on data use edited by Andrea Bueschel and Cynthia Coburn, (November 2012): v. 114 (11).
“Shopping in the Political Arena: Strategic State and Local Venue Selection by Advocates,” co-authored with Thomas P. Holyoke and Heath Brown, State and Local Government Review (2012) 44(1) 9-20
RECENT CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES
“Charter School Governance and Politics.” Co-authored with Katrina E. Bulkley, in Handbook of Research on School Choice, 2nd, edited by Mark Berends, Ann Primus, & Mathew G. Springer. Routledge, 2019.
“Charter Schools in a Changing Political Landscape.” In Choosing Charters: Better Schools or More Segregation?, ed. Iris C. Rotberg and Joshua L. Glazer. NY: Teachers College Press, 2018: 6-23.
“All Together Now: The Apparent Resurgence of Locally Based Cross-Sector Collaboration.” Co-authored with Carolyn J. Riehl. In Shaping Education Policy: Power and Process, 2nd ed., ed. Robert L. Crowson, Douglas E. Mitchell, and Dorothy Shipps. New York: Routledge, 2018: 269-287.
“From NCLB to ESSA: Lessons Learned or Politics Reaffirmed?” Co-authored with David Houston and Melissa Arnold Lyon. In The Every Student Succeeds Act, edited by Frederick Hess & Max Eden. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2017.
“A Political Scientist looks at the American school choice movement” in School Choice: A Handbook for Researchers, Practitioners, Policy-Makers and Journalists, edited by Robert Fox and Nina Buchanan. NY: Wiley, 2017.
“Governance as a Source of Sector Convergence in a Changing Sociopolitical Landscape,” co-authored with Kevin Dougherty, in Christopher P. Loss and Patrick McGuinn, eds. Convergence: U.S. Education Policy Fifty Years after the ESEA and the HEA of 1965 Harvard Education Press (2016): 21-41.
“Introduction: The New Education Philanthropy.” Co-authored with Frederick M. Hess, in Hess and Henig (eds.) The New Education Philanthropy: Politics, Policy, and Reform. Harvard Education Press (December 2015): 1-10.
“Conclusion: Philanthropies On a Shifting Landscape of Policy and Practice.” Co-authored with Frederick M. Hess, in Hess and Henig (eds.) The New Education Philanthropy: Politics, Policy, and Reform. Harvard Education Press (December 2015): 181-192.
“Calling the Shots in Public Education: Parents, Politicians, and Educators Clash.” Co-authored with Eva Gold and Elaine Simon. In Public Education Under Siege, edited by Michael B. Katz and Mike Rose. Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press (2013).
“The Rise of Education Executives in the White House, State House, and Mayor’s Office,” in Paul Manna and Patrick McGuinn, eds., Education Governance for the Twenty-First Century: Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform. Washington DC: Brookings (2012): 178-205.
“Addressing the Disadvantages of Poverty: Why ignore the most important challenge of the post-standards era?” Co-authored with Helen Janc Malone, Paul Reville. In Jal Mehta, Robert Schwartz, and Frederick M. Hess eds., The Future(s) of School Reform. Cambridge MA: Harvard Education Press (2012): 119-149.
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Professor, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2002-present
Professor, George Washington University, Department of Political Science, 1991-2002.
Associate Professor, George Washington University, Department of Political Science, 1984-1991.
Assistant Professor, George Washington University, Department of Political Science, 1977-1984.
PROFESSIONAL PAPERS (SINCE 2000)
“Beyond-School Improvement. Brick-by-Brick: What Does Building Cross-Sector Collaborations Really Entail?” Co-authored with Carolyn Riehl. Presented at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Toronto. April 8, 2019.
OTHER PARTICIPATION ON PROFESSIONAL PANELS & CONFERENCES (since 2000)
INVITED TALKS, PRESENTATIONS, TESTIMONY
Member, National Academy of Education, 2013-present.
Fellow, American Educational Research Association, 2013-present.
Stephen K. Bailey Award, offered every three years by the Politics of Education Association of the American Educational Research Association to recognize a scholar who has made significant intellectual and research contributions to the study of the politics of education (April 2016)
Norton Long Career Achievement Award, Urban Politics section of the American Political Science Association (Awarded September, 2015).
Districts in Research and Reform SIG Best Book Award, 2012 for Between Public and Private: Politics, Governance, and the New Portfolio Models for Urban School Reform, co-edited with Katrina E. Bulkley and Henry M. Levin, Harvard Education Press, October 2010.
American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Outstanding Book Award, 2010 for Spin Cycle: How Research Is Used in Policy Debates, The Case of Charter Schools. Russell Sage Foundation/The Century Foundation, 2008.
Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. & Annette L. Nazareth Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, 2009-10.
John C. Donovan Award for the best faculty paper presented at the 2006 Meeting of the New England Political Science Association. For “Education Policy and the Politics of Privatization since 1980.”
Urban Affairs Association, the best article published in the Journal of Urban Affairs in 2003, for “Privatization, Politics, and Urban Services: The Political Behavior of Charter Schools, (Co-authored with Natalie Lacireno-Paquet, Thomas Holyoke, Michele Moser).
Best book published in the field of urban politics in 2001 by the Urban Politics section of the American Political Science Association, for Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools, co-authored with Clarence N. Stone, Bryan D. Jones, and Carol Pierannunzi.
Named Columbian College Distinguished Professor, George Washington University, May 2001.
Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation, September 1, 2000- June 30, 2001.
Best book published in the field of urban politics in 1999 by the Urban Politics section of the American Political Science Association, for The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education, co-authored with Richard Hula, Marion Orr, and Desiree Pedescleaux.
