About the Contributors

Charles L. Glenn is Professor of Educational Administration and Policy, former Dean of the School of Education, and Fellow of the University Professors at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. From 1970 to 1991, he was director of urban education and equity for the Massachusetts Department of Education, where his responsibilities included administration of over $200 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. Glenn is the author of a number of books and countless articles on education policy in the United States and abroad.