EPP Public Schools and Parental Choice Panel

Center for Education Research, Analysis, and Innovation
School of Education
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
PO Box 413
Milwaukee WI 53201
414-229-2716

July 10, 2000

Attention EducationWriters:

Resources On PublicSchools and Parental Choice

On July 11, 2000, TedForstmann, founder and co-chair of the Children's Scholarship Fund, willannounce a $20 million national advertising campaign that argues for promotingparental choice as an alternative to the public school system. The announcementwill take place at 11 a.m. at the National Press Club.

Three education researchersare available to offer alternative perspectives on Forstmann’s proposalsand similar ones that have been made by others in recent years. All are fellowsof the Education Policy Project, based in the Center for Education Research,Analysis and Innovation at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

They are:

1. Roslyn Mickelson

Professor of Sociology

University of NorthCarolina at Charlotte

Telephone: (704) 547-4075(from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., EDT, Tuesday, July 11)

Roslyn Mickelson has researched the politicaleconomy of schooling and school reform, particularly the relationships amongrace, ethnicity, gender, class, and educational processes and outcomes. She hasexamined the equity effects of market-oriented reforms on students from low-incomeand ethnic minority families, particularly in Charlotte, N.C. Her new book, Childrenon the Streets of the Americas: Globalization, Homelessness, and Education inthe United States, Brazil, and Cuba, has just been published by Routledge.

2. Gene Glass

Associate Dean for Research

Arizona State UniversityCollege of Education.

Telephone: (303) 543-0731

Trained originally instatistics, Gene Glass has broadened his interests to include evaluationmethodology, psychotherapy and policy analysis. He is particularlyknowledgeable on the impact privatization in schools can have on increasingschool segregation.

3. David Berliner

Regents' Professor ofEducational Leadership and Policy Studies and of Psychology in Education

Dean of the College ofEducation

Arizona State University

Telephone: (480) 965-1329

David C. Berliner has written EducationalPsychology (6th edition)(with N. L. Gage), The Manufactured Crisis(with B. J. Biddle), and The Handbook of Educational Psychology (editedwith R. L. Calfee). He has served as president of the American EducationalResearch Association and of the Educational Psychology Division of the AmericanPsychological Association. Berliner is a fellow of the Center for AdvancedStudy in the Behavioral Sciences and a member of the National Academy ofEducation.

The Education PolicyProject offers to the national discussion of education policy high qualityanalyses of school reform issues, and provides an analytical resource foreducators, journalists, citizens and others involved in public school reform.It is directed by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee education professor AlexMolnar.

You can visit the EducationPolicy Project on the Web at:
www.educationanalysis.org

You can direct furtherinquiries to Professor Alex Molnar at 414-229-4592.