Awards

Dissertation Award(s) 2013

• Stay tuned for nomination forms.

 Publication Award(s) 2012

•  Bulkley, K. E., Henig, J. R., & Levin, H. M. (2010). Between public and private: Politics, governance, and the new portfolio models for urban school reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
• Johnson, P. E., & Chrispeels, J. H. (2010). Linking the Central Office and Its Schools for Reform. Educational Administration Quarterly, 46(5), 738–775.

Dissertation Award(s) 2011

• Thomas D. Shelton  (University of Louisville student affiliation and Daviess County Schools employer) for The Effects of School System Superintendents, School Boards, and Their Interactions on Longitudinal Measures of Districts’ Students’ Mathematics Achievement. This innovatively-designed, mixed method study found that boards of education and superintendents impact student math achievement over time in a variety of ways.
• Sarah L. Diem (University of Texas-Austin student affiliation and University of Missouri-Columbia employer) for Design Matters: The Relationship Between Policy Design, Context, and Implementation in Integration Plans Based on Voluntary Choice and Socioeconomic Status. This qualitative study examined three alternative district integration plans and suggested that geographic and political contexts matter in the shaping and adoption of integration plans based on voluntary choice and SES.

Publication Award(s) 2010

• Kerchner, C.T., Menefee-Libey, D.J., Mulfinger, L.S., & Clayton, S.E. (2008). Learning from L.A.: Institutional change in American public education. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Dissertation Award(s) 2009

• Elizabeth N. Farley-Ripple for Accountability, Evidence and School District Decision-Making
• Laurence B. Boggess for Home Growing Teacher Quality: District Partnerships with Urban Teacher Residencies

Publication Award(s) 2008

• Supovitz, J. (2006). The case for district-based reform. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press
• Honig, M. (2006). “Street-level bureaucracy revisited: Frontline district central-office administrators as boundary spanners in education policy implementation,” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Winter 2006.

Please send updates to this historical information to Chris Cox at coxCL2@muohio.edu