Education Research Schools Respond to New Foundation Activism

Session Type: Invited Session

Abstract

Dr. Reckhow’s acclaimed book, which focuses on how major foundations seek to change education policy in urban school districts, will provide the platform for our exploration of issues of responses of graduate schools of education to foundation politics: the graduate schools compelling need for resources in the context of their traditional value of maximum independence. Representative of foundations and deans of education will reflect on the implications of Reckhow’s research.

Sub Unit

• Organization of Institutional Affiliates

Chair

• Walter G. Secada, University of Miami

Presenter

• Sarah Reckhow, Michigan State University

Discussants

• Kent McGuire, Southern Education Foundation, Inc.

• Mary Kalantzis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Harold G. Levine, University of California - Davis