The Brown Club of Michigan presents Professor K. Wong

Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm - 09:30 pm
Location: Detroit Athletic Club 241 Madison Avenue, Detroit, MI 48226

"Improving Urban Public Schools: From Policy to Classroom and Beyond"

The drive to improve urban education in the United States calls for increased accountability, tougher standards, and school restructuring. However, parents, teachers, school principals and policy makers may not share the same vision or priorities about what works. Managing this change process is a challenge that has been the focus of Professor Kenneth Wong’s research at Brown. Professor Wong directs the master’s program in Urban Education Policy and chairs the Education Department at Brown.

Kenneth Wong is the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair for Education Policy at Brown. He has conducted extensive research in the politics of education, federalism, policy innovation, outcome-based accountability, and governance redesign (including city and state takeover, management reform, and Title I school-wide reform). His research has received support from the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Education, the Social Science Research Council, the Spencer Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, the Broad Foundation, the British Council, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has advised the U.S. Congress, state legislature, governor and mayoral offices, and the leadership in several large urban school systems on how to redesign the accountability framework. Currently, he is co-editor of a major educational policy journal, Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Professor Wong received a B.A. M.A. and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago and his thesis was nominated for the 1984 L.D. White Award of the American Political Science Association http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Education/personnel.php?who=kwong