Ellen Goldring is a professor of
Educational Policy
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and
Leadership
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at
Vanderbilt University
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.
Biography
Ellen Goldring received a Ph.D. from the
University of Chicago
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in 1985. Her research interests reside in two main areas. One strand centers on understanding and shaping
school reform
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efforts that connect families, communities, and schools. She is co-author of ''Magnet Schools in Urban Districts: What's Our Choice'' (Teacher College Press), with
Claire Smrekar, that focuses on questions of equity and community in urban
school districts with extensive
magnet school plans, and ''Principals of Dynamic Schools'' (Corwin Press) with
Sharon Rallis.
Much of her other work focuses on the changing role of school leaders as the organizational contexts for schools become more complex and varied. Her research examines how
principals play a pivotal and changing role as schools become re-embedded in their larger community structures. She studies the organizational features of schools and leadership that affect parent participation and teaches
undergraduate
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and
graduate courses in the areas of understanding organizations and
quantitative research
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methods. She is currently involved in a number of projects that are studying expertise in school leadership, new models for professional development for school leaders, and linking leading and learning.
Appointments and memberships
* Co-Editor, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2003-2006.
* Member, Task Force on Developing Research to Improve Educational Leadership; Division
American Educational Research Association, The Laboratory for Student Success, and the University Council for School Administration.
Current work
Ellen Goldring is currently involved on the following projects;
* Reclaiming Communities: Diversity, Equity, and Access in the Post-Busing Era: A
longitudinal study of the transition from court-ordered busing to
unitary status funded by the
WT Grant Foundation.
* The Institute for School Leadership: A study of the impact of multimedia case based professional development for school leaders funded by the
Gates Foundation and the Learning Sciences Institute, Vanderbilt University.
* Parental Involvement and Parent Choice: A study of the new roles for magnet schools with race neutral enrollment rules.
Bibliography
* Goldring, E., & Rallis, S. (2000). Principals of Dynamic Schools: Taking Charge of Change (2nd ed.). Newbury Park, CA: Corwin/Sage.
* Smrekar, C., & Goldring, E. (1999). School Choice in Urban America: Magnet Schools and the Pursuit of Equity. New York: Teachers College Press.
* Goldring, E., & Smrekar, C. (2000). ''Magnet schools and the pursuit of racial balance''. Education and Urban Society, 33(1), 17-35.
* Goldring, E. & Greenfield, W. (2002). ''Understanding the evolving concept of leadership in education: Roles, expectations and dilemmas''. In J. Murphy (ed.) The Educational Leadership Challenge: Redefining Leadership in the 21st Century, NSSE Yearbook. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ?.
* Goldring, E., & Hausman, C. (2001). ''Civic capacity and school principals: The missing link in community development''. In R. Crowson & B. Boyd (Eds.), Community Development and School Reform. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
* Hausman, C., & Goldring, E. (2000). ''School community in different magnet program structures''. School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 11(1), 80-102.
* Goldring, E., & Hausman, C. (1999). ''Reasons for parental choice in urban schools''. Journal of Education Policy, 4(5), 469-490.
* Bauch, P., & Goldring, E. (1998). ''Parent-teacher participation in the context of school restructuring''. Peabody Journal of Education, 73, 15-35.
* Bauch, P., & Goldring, E. (1995). ''Parent involvement and school responsiveness: Facilitating the home-school connection in schools of choice''. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 17(1), 1-22.
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Vanderbilt University faculty