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Last month, the 25,000-member American Educational Research Association selected David Kirp’s “Improbable Scholars” for its 2014 Outstanding Book Award. The honor, reserved for education’s intellectual heavyweights, is not only a nod to Kirp’s scholarly achievement, but more, an acknowledgement of the power of marrying journalism and policy into a narrative that can drive public interest where there is seemingly so little: systems change. Kirp, a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy…

The Goldman School congratulates Chancellor's Professor Robert B. Reich on his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed upon academics and those in public life.  "The American Academy was founded in 1780," says Dean Henry E. Brady. "It is one of the nation's oldest learned societies. The Academy convenes leaders from the academic, business, and government sectors to address critical challenges facing our global society. It is a great…

The American Education Research Association (AERA) awarded its Outstanding Book Award to Professor David Kirp's 2013 publication, Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools (Oxford University Press, 2013). The Outstanding Book Award was created to honor the best book-length publication in education research and development of each year. David L. Kirp is the James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy and a national expert on education and children's policy.…