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Charles L. Glenn
Position:Professor and Chairman
Department:Administration, Training, and Policy
Program:Policy, Planning, and Administration
Educational History
  • PhD Boston University
  • EdD Harvard University
  • AB Harvard College
Contact Information
Phone:1 617 353 7108
E-mail:glennsed@bu.edu
Profile
Charles L. Glenn is professor and chairman of educational administration and policy, and Fellow of the University Professors Program, at Boston University, where he teaches courses in education history and comparative policy. From 1970 to 1991 he was director of urban education and equity efforts for the Massachusetts Department of Education, including administration of over $500 million in state funds for magnet schools and desegregation, and initial responsibility for the nation's first state bilingual education mandate and for the state law forbidding race and sex discrimination in education. His research interests, teaching, and policy work include urban schooling, parental choice, schooling of linguistic and racial minority pupils, religion and education, history and sociology of education, reconciling national standards with school autonomy and distinctiveness, school desegregation and equity, in Europe and North America.
Courses Taught
  • SED ED410/412 A1  Social Context of Education and Civic Context of Education
  • SED AP 640A1  Educational Freedom: US and International
  •  AP 620  History of Education
  •  AP 600  Diversity and Justice in Education
  •  ED 703  Intellectual History of Education: Plato, Rousseau, William James
  •  AP 753  Educational Policy
Selected Publications
  • Charles L. Glenn , Jan De Groof  (2004).  Balancing Freedom, Autonomy, and Accountability in Education, volumes 1-3.  Tilburg, The Netherlands : Wolf Legal Publishers.
  • Charles L. Glenn  (2000).  The Ambiguous Embrace: Government and Faith-based Schools and Social Agencies (2000).  Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press.
  • Charles L. Glenn , with Ester J. de Jong  (1996).  Educating Immigrant Children: Schools and Language Minorities in 12 Nations.  New York : Garland Publishing.
  • Charles L. Glenn  (1995).  Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe, 2nd edition (1995).  Washington, DC : Cato Institution.
  • Charles L. Glenn  (1988; 2002).  The Myth of the Common School (1988; republished 2002; Italian 2004; Spanish 2006).  Amherst; Oakland : University of Massachusetts Press, 1988; Institute for Contemporary Studies Press, 2002.
  •  ().  see attached resume. .
Selected Presentations
  • Modèles de participation de la société civile dans l'éducation (Models of participation of civil society in education)
  • School Choice and Social Justice
  • Education Law and its Role in the Development of States and Children – the Relevancy of International and Comparative Education Law
  • School Legislation and Minorities and Immigrants' Language Rights in the USA
  • Right to Basic Education and Equality of Educational Opportunities
  • see attached resume
Selected University Service
  • Department Chairman
    Selected Professional Service
    • Charter Member and Board Member, European Association for Educational Law and Policy
    • Scientific Council, Summer University on Human Rights and the Right to Education, Geneva.
    Selected Community Service
    • Board member, Council for American Private Education (term 2004-2007)
    • Trustee, Boston Trinity Academy
    • Fellow, Center for Public Justice, Washington, DC
    • Vice President, OIDEL (International Organisation for the Right to Education and Educational Freedom), Geneva
    Advising
    • advising graduate students in educational administration and policy
    • supervising doctoral dissertations in educational history and policy
    • advising undergraduate students in the University Professors program as they write senior theses
    • faculty advisor to five evangelical student groups
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