SPEAKERS . Rick Hanushek . John Hennessy . Jennifer Hochschild . Caroline Hoxby . Don Kennedy . Lesley Jacobs . Susan Mayer . Michael McPherson . David Schmidtz . Daniel Weinstock . Paul Weithman
RESPONDENTS . Irene
Bloemraad . Josh Cohen . Barabra
Fried . Susanna Loeb . Glenn
Loury . Josh Ober . Rob
Reich . Kenneth Strike |
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Rick Hanushek (Stanford, Hoover Institute)
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Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). He is also chairman of the Executive Committee for the Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas (Dallas), a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education.
He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Board for Education Sciences and of the Governor's Advisory Committee on Education Excellence (California).He is an expert on educational policy, specializing in the economics and finance of schools. His on-going research spans a number of important areas of education policy including the impacts of high stakes accountability and of class size reduction and the importance of teacher quality.
His books include Courting Failure, Handbook on the Economics of Education, The Economics of Schooling and School Quality, Making Schools Work, Improving America's Schools, Educational Performance of the Poor, Education and Race, Assessing Knowledge of Retirement Behavior, Modern Political Economy, Improving Information for Social Policy Decisions, and Statistical Methods for Social Scientists.
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John Hennessy (President, Stanford)
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John L. Hennessy joined Stanford’s electrical engineering faculty in 1977. From 1983 to 1993, he was director of the
Computer Systems Laboratory, a research and teaching center operated by the Departments of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science that fosters research in computer systems design. He served as chair of computer science from 1994 to
1996 and, in 1996, was named dean of the School of Engineering. As dean, he launched a five-year plan that laid the groundwork
for new activities in bioengineering and biomedical engineering. In 1999, he was named provost and in 2000, he was
inaugurated as Stanford University’s 10th president.
A pioneer in computer architecture, in 1981 Hennessy drew together researchers to focus on a computer architecture
known as RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer), a technology that has revolutionized the computer industry by
increasing performance while reducing costs. In addition to his role in the basic research, Hennessy helped transfer
this technology to industry. In 1984, he cofounded MIPS Computer Systems, now MIPS Technologies, which designs
microprocessors. In recent years, his research has focused on the architecture of high-performance computers.
Hennessy is a recipient of the 2000 IEEE John von Neumann Medal, the 2000 ASEE Benjamin Garver Lamme Award, the
2001 ACM Eckert-Mauchly Award, the 2001 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award, a 2004 NEC C&C Prize for lifetime
achievement in computer science and engineering and a 2005 Founders Award from the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences, and he is a
fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Jennifer Hochschild (Harvard) [Website]
Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government at Harvard University, Professor of African and African-American Studies, and Harvard College Professor. She holds a Lectureship in the Harvard Kennedy School. She is co-author (with Nathan Scovronick) of The American Dream and the Public Schools (Oxford University Press, 2003), and co-editor (with John Mollenkopf) of The Future of Immigrant Political Incorporation: A Transatlantic Comparison (forthcoming, Cornell University Press). She is co-authoring a book on “Blurring American Racial Boundaries: Skin Color, Multiracialism, Immigration, and DNA.” Hochschild is a former vice-chair of the Board of Trustees of the Russell Sage Foundation, has served as a vice-president of the American Political Science Foundation, and was on the Board of Overseers for the General Social Survey.
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Caroline Hoxby (Stanford) [Website]
Caroline Hoxby is the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor of Economics at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow of the
Hoover Institution, the Director of the Economics of Education Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research,
and Senior Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. She is a Public Economist and a Labor Economist,
and she specializes in the Economics of Education. She works on all aspects of education including college and primary/secondary
education. Her research includes studies of college choice, the effects of financial aid, the outcomes of graduates from
different colleges, college tuition policy, public school finance, school choice, the effect of education on economic growth
and income inequality, teacher pay and teacher quality, peer effects, and class size. She also works on topics that fit under
the headings of public finance (property taxes, government finance), labor economics (earnings, returns to skills), and
quantitative methods. Prior to Stanford, Caroline Hoxby was the Allie S. Freed Professor of Economics and a Harvard College
Professor at Harvard University. She has a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and a
baccalaureate degree from Harvard University. She is currently completing books or studies on how education affects
economic growth; globalization in higher education; peer effects in education; and the effect of charter schools (a form
of school choice) on student achievement.
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Don Kennedy (Stanford)
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Donald Kennedy is President Emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Emeritus; Senior Fellow by courtesy, Wood Institute for the Environment (all at Stanford). He is also Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Science Magazine (2000-2008). Kennedy’s research interests include interdisciplinary studies on the development of policies regarding environmental problems, including land-use changes; food security and environmental change; global climate modification; development of regulatory policies.
Kennedy has also been involved with numerous National Service endeavors, including: National Commission for Public Service; Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government; Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Director);
The David and Lucille Packard Foundation (Trustee); Office of Science and Technology Policy (Senior Consultant, Ford Presidency); U.S. Food and Drug Administration (Commissioner, Carter Presidency), Committee on Science, Technology and Law (National Academy of Science, Co-Chair,); New England Journal of Medicine (Editorial Board), and National Academies Communications Awards (Chairman, Selection Committee).
Kennedy is also and elected member of the National Academy of Science, the Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society.
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Lesley Jacobs (York, Canada)
Lesley Jacobs is Professor of Law & Society and Director of the York Centre for Public Policy & Law (yccpl.osgoode.yorku.ca) at York University in Toronto, Canada. Prior to coming to York, he taught at Magdalen College, Oxford, and the University of British Columbia. He has held a range of distinguished visiting appointment at other universities including the Harvard Law School, Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Law Commission of Canada, the University of California, Berkeley, University of Toronto, and the University of British Columbia. His books include Rights and Deprivation (Oxford University Press, 1993); Workfare: Does it work? Is it fair? (IRPP, 1995); The Democratic Vision of Politics (Simon & Schuster, 1997), and Pursuing Equal Opportunities: The theory & practice of egalitarian justice (Cambridge University Press, 2004). His newest book (with Sarah Biddulph), International Human Rights Issues in the Asia Pacific: New Perspectives on Social Rights, is to appear in 2009. His research interests straddle empirical social-legal research and theoretical work on social justice.
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Susan Mayer (U Chicago)
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Susan E. Mayer is a professor and dean of the Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on the measurement of poverty, the consequences of economic inequality, the effect of growing up in poor neighborhoods, and the effect of parental income on children's well-being. She is the author of What Money Can’t Buy (Harvard University Press) and co-editor of Earning and Leaning (Brookings Institution Press). Mayer is a member of the Board of Directors of Chapin Hall Center for Children. She has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on National Statistics Panel to Review U.S. Department of Agriculture's Measurement of Food Insecurity and Hunger.
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Michael McPherson (President, Spencer Foundation)
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Michael S. McPherson is the fifth President of the Spencer Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation he served as President of Macalester College in St. Paul, MN for seven years. A nationally known economist whose expertise focuses on the interplay between education and economics, McPherson spent the 22 years prior to his Macalester presidency as professor of economics, chairman of the Economics Department, and dean of faculty at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
McPherson, who is co-author and editor of several books, including College Access: Opportunity or Privilege?, Keeping College Affordable and Economic Analysis and Moral Philosophy, was founding co-editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy. He has served as a trustee of the College Board, the American Council on Education, and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. McPherson has been a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
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David Schmidtz (Arizona)
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David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy, joint Professor of Economics, and Director of the Program in Philosophy of Freedom at the University of Arizona. He is also President of the American Society for Value Inquiry. The most recent edition of the Philosophical Gourmet ranked Arizona tied for #1 in the world (along with Harvard and Oxford) in political philosophy. He is author of Rational Choice and Moral Agency (Princeton), Elements of Justice (Cambridge), Person, Polis, Planet (Oxford), and co-author of Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility (Cambridge). His articles have appeared in Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, and Political Theory, and have been reprinted thirty-five times. He and Jason Brennan currently are working on a book on the history of liberty for Blackwell’s Brief History series. His research has taken him to six continents and twenty-four countries.
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Daniel Weinstock (Montreal)
Daniel Weinstock holds the Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Political Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy of the University of Montreal. He is Founding Director of the Ethics Research Center of the University of Montreal. He has published widely on a range of topics in moral and political philosophy, including the ethics of multicultural societies, federalism and nationalism, and the political philosophy of the family. He is presently in the initial stages of a research project on the political philosophy of the city. He has held visiting appointments at a number of institutions around the world, most recently at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona and at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto.
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Paul Weithman (Notre Dame)
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Paul Weithman is professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, where he has taught since 1991 and from which he received his BA in 1981. He did his doctoral work in philosophy at Harvard, where he wrote a dissertation under the direction of John Rawls and Judith Shklar. He has published articles on contemporary moral and political philosophy, and on medieval political theory. He is the editor of Religion and Contemporary Liberalism (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997) and Liberal Faith: Essays in Honor of Philip Quinn (University of Notre Dame Press, 2008), and the author of Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship (Cambridge, 2002). He is currently working on a book entitled Why Political Liberalism?.
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Irene Bloemraad (Berkeley)
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Irene Bloemraad is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests lie in the intersection of immigration and politics, with particular emphasis on citizenship, immigrants’ political and civic participation, and the impact of migrants on state ideologies. She has published widely on these topics, including Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada (University of California Press, 2006; honorable mention for the Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book Award from the International Migration section of the American Sociological Association) and Civic Hopes and Political Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement (edited with Karthick Ramakrishnan, Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2008). Bloemraad has also published articles on naturalization, dual citizenship, immigrant community organizations and ethnic leadership in academic journals such as Social Forces, DuBois Review, International Migration Review, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of International Migration and Integration and the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
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Josh Cohen (Stanford)
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Joshua Cohen is professor of political science, philosophy, and law at Stanford University, where he directs the Program on Global Justice. He has been editor of Boston Review since 1991.
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Barbara Fried (Stanford)
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Barbara Fried is the William W. and Gertrude H. Saunders Professor of Law at Stanford. Her scholarly interests lie at the intersection of law, economics, and philosophy. She has written extensively on questions of distributive justice in the areas of tax policy, property theory, contract theory and political theory. She is also the author of The Progressive Assault on Laissez Faire (Harvard U Press, 1998), an intellectual history of the Progressive-era law and economics movement, and since 2004, has served as the Review Editor for Philosophy and Public Affairs. At the law school, she regularly teaches contracts, tax and legal theory, along with the Legal Studies Workshop, an interdisciplinary seminar designed for law students planning to pursue an academic career. Professor Fried is a three-time winner of the law school’s Hurlbut Award for excellence in teaching.
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Susanna Loeb (Stanford)
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Glenn Loury (Brown)
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Josh Ober (Stanford)
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Josiah Ober holds the Constantine Mitsotakis Chair in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University.
He divides his time between the Departments of Classics and Political Science, and has a courtesy appointment in Philosophy.
He teaches courses on Greek history, classical philosophy, and political theory and practice. His most recent book, Democracy
and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens, will be published by Princeton University Press in autumn 2008.
In addition to his ongoing work on the politics of knowledge and innovation, he is developing a project on the emergence of
centralized and dispersed systems of political authority. Before coming to Stanford he taught at Montana State University
(1980-1990), and Princeton University (1990-2006).
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Rob Reich (Stanford)
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Rob Reich is an associate professor of Political Science and, by courtesy, of Education. He is also Director of the
Program on Ethics in Society. His main interests are in contemporary liberal political theory, and he is working on two
main projects: the first on the ideals of equality and adequacy as applied to education policy and reform and the second
about topics in ethics, public policy, and philanthropy. He is the author of Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in
American Education (2002), co-author of Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and What
We Can Do About It (2005), and co-editor of Toward a Humanist Justice: The Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin (2008).
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Kenneth Strike (Syracuse)
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Kenneth Strike is Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education at Syracuse University and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University. He is past president of the Philosophy of Education Society and a member of the National Academy of Education. His interests include professional ethics and political philosophy as they apply to education and school reform. His publications include: The Ethics of Teaching; The Ethics of School Administration; Ethical Standards of the AERA: Cases and Commentary; “Professionalism, Democracy and Discursive Communities” in AERJ; “The Moral Role of Schooling in Liberal Democratic Societies” in RRE; “Liberty, Democracy, And Community: Legitimacy in Public Education” in the 2003 NSSE Yearbook, “Community, the Missing Element of School Reform: Why Schools Should be More Like Congregations than Banks” In AJE; “The Moral Role of Educators” in Handbook of Teacher Education; and “Small Schools: Size or Community?” in AJE. He is current working on a book entitled Community and Small Schools: A Third Way of School reform. His most recent book Ethical Leadership in Schools: Creating Community in an Environment of Accountability includes the development of a view of accountability that is rooted more in the local community and in professional standards than is the current test based accountability.
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