Education Policy: Research: Conference 2008

Biographies of Presenters

The States' Impact on Federal Education Policy
New Perspectives on Research and the Historical Record

Carl Kaestle

Carl Kaestle is university professor emeritus in the departments of education, history, and public policy at Brown University.  He is also presently a resident fellow at the Spencer Foundation.  Carl has been the director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, the president of the National Academy of Education, vice-chair of the National Research Council’s Board on Testing and Assessment, a principal consultant for the PBS documentary School, and director of the Advanced Studies Fellowship Program at Brown.  With the postdoctoral fellows from that program, he authored To Educate a Nation: Federal and National Strategies of School Reform.  He is currently working on a history of the federal role in American elementary and secondary schooling from 1940 to 1980.