Educational Background

• PhD Educational Psychology, Temple University, 1983
• MAT English Education, University of North Carolina, 1978
• BA Psychology, University of North Carolina, 1971

Teaching Areas

• Research Design
• School Reform
• Systemic Reform
• Educational Psychology
• Teacher and School Effects

Research Interests

• School Reform
• School Effects
• Systemic Educational Reform
• Highly Reliable Organizations

Professional Activities

• "High Schools for the 21st Century"
• "The Four Quartets": a four-state study of effective schools principles
• The High Reliability Schools project (England and Wales)
• "What makes it work?": a nationwide study of the effects of embedding Career and Technical Education foci into secondary school reforms
• The role of data use at the classroom, school and district levels in facilitating continuous educational improvement
• Founding co-editor the Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk (JESPAR)