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Is Law Undermining Public Education?Common Good launches education campaign with a forum co-hosted by Common Good and the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies
November 5, 2003 Is Law Undermining Public Education?
A forum co-sponsored by Common Good and the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory
Studies, Nov. 5, 2003
Panelist Biographies
Richard Arum is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Humanities
and Social Sciences in the Professions at New York University. He is the author
of Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority in American Schools
(Harvard, 2003), which examines decades of evidence to uncover how the developing
legal context has shaped school discipline. Mr. Arum has also published in numerous
scholarly journals, including the Annual Review of Sociology, Sociology of Education,
and American Sociological Review. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University
of California, Berkeley, and a M.Ed. in Teaching and Curriculum from the Harvard
University Graduate School of Education. Mr. Arum worked for six years as a teacher
in the Oakland Public Schools.
Alan D. Bersin is Superintendent of Public Education for San Diego City Schools. Previously,
he served as a United States Attorney for the Southern District of California.
As Superintendent, Mr. Bersin launched a major reorganization of the district
to focus its resources strategically on instruction to improve student achievement
and to modernize its business infrastructure to support teaching and learning
in the classroom. Governor Gray Davis appointed Mr. Bersin to the California Commission
on Teacher Credentialing in April 2000, and upon selection by his colleagues,
he served two years as Chairman of the Commission. Mr. Bersin was previously a
senior partner with the Los Angeles law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson. He
holds an A.B in government from Harvard University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Dan Corley is Founder and Head of the Community Preparatory School for grades three through
eight in South Providence, RI. Founded in 1984, Community Prep has become a model
in urban education acclaimed by The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor,
and The Wall Street Journal. Ninety-seven percent of the school's graduates have
been accepted into college preparatory high school programs, and 81 percent--more
than twice the urban public-school average--are attending college. Community Prep
is built around rigorous academics, a teaching style that instills values and
self-esteem, community service and family support. Before founding Community Prep,
Mr. Corley devoted himself to community service as a VISTA volunteer, a worker
in a homeless shelter, and a teacher at a school for delinquent boys.
Chester E. Finn, Jr. is a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution, President of the Thomas
B. Fordham Foundation and Thomas B. Fordham Institute, and Senior Editor of Education
Next. He is also a Fellow of the International Academy of Education and an Adjunct
Fellow at the Hudson Institute. From 1981 until 2002, Mr. Finn was Professor of
Education and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University. Mr. Finn is the author of
over 300 articles published in scholarly journals and other periodicals, such
as the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. He has also published 13 books,
most recently Rethinking Special Education for a New Century, co-edited with Andrew
Rotherham and Charles Hokanson (2001). Mr. Finn serves on the boards of several
education-related organizations. He holds a doctorate in Education Policy from
Harvard University.
Robert W. Hahn is Executive Director of the American Enterprise Institute-Brookings Joint Center
for Regulatory Studies. Previously, he has worked for the President's Council
of Economic Advisers, Harvard, and Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Hahn frequently
contributes to general-interest periodicals and leading scholarly journals, including
the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Economic Review, Yale Law Journal
and Science. Recently, he is the author of Reviving Regulatory Reform: A Global
Perspective (AEI-Brookings, 2000) and editor of High-Stakes Antitrust (AEI-Brookings,
2003). In addition, Mr. Hahn is cofounder of the Community Preparatory School––an
inner-city middle school in Providence, Rhode Island, that provides opportunities
for disadvantaged youth to achieve their full potential.
Jane Hannaway is Director of the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute. She is an
organizational sociologist whose work focuses on the study of educational organizations.
Her recent research focuses on structural reforms in education, particularly reforms
promoting accountability, competition and choice. Ms. Hannaway previously served
on the faculty of Columbia, Princeton, and Stanford Universities. She also has
been a senior researcher with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education
(CPRE). Ms. Hannaway is the author or co-author of four books and numerous papers
in education and management journals. She recently completed her term as vice
president of the American Educational Research Association and also served on
its Executive Board. She is the immediate past editor of Educational Evaluation
and Policy Analysis.
Frederick M. Hess is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and Executive Editor
of Education Next. Dr. Hess's most recent books are Revolution at the Margins
(Brookings, 2002) and Common Sense School Reform (Palgrave, forthcoming 2004).
His scholarship has appeared in publications including Social Science Quarterly,
American Politics Quarterly, Phi Delta Kappan, and Education Week. Dr. Hess is
a faculty associate of the Harvard University Program in Education Policy and
Governance and currently serves on the National Working Commission on Choice in
K-12 Education. A former high school teacher, Dr. Hess holds a M.Ed. in Education
and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University. Prior to joining AEI, Dr. Hess
was a professor at the University of Virginia and a Senior Fellow with the Progressive
Policy Institute.
The Honorable Eugene W. Hickok is the United States Acting Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary of Education,
formally nominated as Under Secretary by President Bush on March 30, 2001. Prior
to his appointment, Dr. Hickok was Secretary of Education for the state of Pennsylvania,
where he implemented sweeping reforms to raise standards and accountability, to
expand the use of education technology, and to promote charter public schools,
among other reforms. He also served on the boards of trustees of Pennsylvania's
four state-related uiversities, and on the State System of Higher Education's
Board of Governors. Dr. Hickok is a founding member and chairman of the Education
Leaders Council. He taught for 15 years at Dickinson College and has published
numerous books and articles.
Philip K. Howard is Vice-Chairman of Covington & Burling and Chairman of Common Good, a bi-partisan
coalition dedicated to restoring the foundation of reliable law. He is the author
of The Death of Common Sense: How Law is Suffocating America (Random House 1995)
and The Collapse of the Common Good: How America's Lawsuit Culture Undermines
Our Freedom (Ballantine 2002). Howard is a periodic contributor to the op-ed pages
of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, and speaks
before judicial, government, and pofessional organizations around the country.
As a civic leader in New York, Howard is Chairman of the Municipal Art Society
and chaired the committee which installed the "Tribute in Light" interim memorial
for the World Trade Center tragedy.
Tom Loveless is Director of the Brown Center on Education Policy and Senior Fellow in Governmental
Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has recently published articles in the
Wilson Quarterly, Education Next, and other journals, and op-eds in the Los Angeles
Times, Wall Street Journal, and other periodicals. He has appeared on NBC's Today
Show, NBC Nightly News, ABC World News Tonight, and Fox News. The author of The
Tracking Wars: State Reform Meets School Policy (Brookings Institution Press,
1999) and editor of four additional books, Mr. Loveless is both a former classroom
teacher and a former assistant and associate professor of public policy at the
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. He sits on the advisory
boards of the American Journal of Education and of a Massachusetts Charter School.
William Ouchi is Professor of Management at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of management,
UCLA. He has served at UCLA since 1979, leaving during 1993-95 to serve first
as dvisor and then Chief of Staff to Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan. Mr. Ouchi
is Chairman of the Anderson School's Riordan Programs, which encourage individuals
(high school age through post-baccalaureate) to consider careers in business and
to seek graduate-level education opportunities. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration
from the University of Chicago, and is the author of numerous scholarly articles
and several books, including the New York Times bestseller, Theory Z: How American
Management Can Meet the Japanese Challenges, and a new book (with Lydia G. Segal)
entitled Making Schools Work (Simon and Schuster, 2003).
David Schoenbrod is Professor of Law at the New York Law School and an adjunct scholar at the
Cato Institute. His recent scholarship focuses on government officials and public
interest advocates exercising power in ways that evade accountability to voters.
In addition to publishing in scholarly journals and contributing to the editorial
pages of the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and other newspapers, Mr. Schoenbrod
is the author of Power without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People
through Delegation (Yale, 1993) and the co-author, with Ross Sandler, of Democracy
by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government (Yale, 2003). During the 1970's,
as a staff attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Mr. Schoenbrod
helped lead the effort to remove lead from gasoline.
Deborah Wadsworth joined Public Agenda in 1986 and served as President until her retirement in
September 2003. She currently serves as a Board Member and Senior Advisor to Public
Agenda. For 18 years, Ms. Wadsworth was the spokesperson for Public Agenda on
issues of national concern. She has written extensively on contemporary issues
that are the focus of Public Agenda research and is called upon regularly to speak
before Congressional committees, business groups, major policy organizations,
and think tanks. Prior to joining Public Agenda,she was Executive Director of
the Smart Family Foundation, Program Officer of the John and Mary R. Markle Foundation,
and Director of Admissions at the State University of New York at Purchase. She
holds degrees from Wellesley College and Columbia University. Event description Related material | |
