Somali boys in Mogadishu in 1985, cheerful and outgoing, like most Somali children I met, despite tragic living conditions. They are wearing their Sunday best. Many children had no shoes, and most, like Somali adults, looked undernourished.

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Two of my graduate school advisees in a row won the Susan Culver Rosenberg Prize at the University of Chicago for the best dissertation during a three-year period in the field of education. One advisee won a prize for his dissertation from the Maryland Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.  Three had their dissertations published by university presses.    A dissertation by Myron Kuropas was expanded into the classic 534-page history of The Ukranian Americans.  Bruce Cooper was probably the only graduate student ever to do a study under contract to a U. S. President’s Commission on School Finance (and then revise the study into his dissertation).  Others of my advisees have done distinguished dissertations—on the tendency of teachers to cheat when held responsible for student test scores,  on the pervasive influence of street gangs in public schools where principals say there is no gang problem whatsoever, and on dramatic differences in the duties of school principals in the U. S. and Saudi Arabia, for example.   Many of my former students have gone on to distinguished careers as public and private school leaders, directors of studies, professors, deans, and university presidents.  Some of the finest work in my own studies was done by my graduate students.

My research has been financed by several agencies already mentioned and by the British Columbia Ministry of Education and five foundations. 

I have published, as of this writing, approximately one hundred articles and chapters, mostly in professional journals and books but also in Parents Magazine, Commentary, and Saturday Review; plus three books as editor (co-editor in one case), one of them also as author of several chapters and one also as extensive commentator.  One of the books was commissioned by the American Educational Research Association, one was sponsored by the University Council for Educational Administration and the National Society for the Study of Education, and one was published by University of Chicago Press. One of the articles was given an “Excellence in Journalism” award by EDPRESS for communicating research findings intelligibly to lay readers.   I have submitted numerous unpublished research reports to various agencies.

Some of my studies and publications have been discussed above, under More on the sample cases.

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