Examining the Conditions Under Which School Choice is Effective or Not
Mark Berends is a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, where he directs the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity. He has written and published extensively on educational reform, school choice, the effects of family and school changes on student achievement trends and gaps, and the effects of schools and classrooms on student achievement. Berends serves on numerous editorial boards, technical panels, and policy forums. He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, co-editor of AERA’s American Educational Research Journal, former editor of AERA’s Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, the current (and former) vice president of the AERA's Division L—Educational Policy and Politics, and was the AERA Program Chair for the 2014 annual meeting. His recent books include Leading with Data: Pathways to Improve Your School (Corwin, 2009), the Handbook of Research on School Choice (Routledge, 2009), School Choice and School Improvement (Harvard Education Press, 2011), and the International Handbook of the Sociology of Education (SAGE, forthcoming). Berends earned his PhD in sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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