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Philip Altbach
J. Donald Monan, SJ, Professor of Higher Education
Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education
Lynch School of Education
Director, Center for International Higher Education
B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. University of Chicago

International higher education; comparative education; university-society relationships; impact of federal and state government on higher education; affirmative action issues; role of research at universities; student activism; the academic profession. Author of the books Comparative Higher Education, Essays on Higher Education in International Perspective (including a Japanese edition of selected articles) and Student Politics in America; author or editor of numerous other books. Director of BC's Center for International Higher Education. Holds several editorial positions at journals of higher education, including The Review of Higher Education; former North American Executive Editor of the International Journal of Educational Development. A regular contributor of articles to the Japan Times and Times of India; a senior associate at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and coordinator of the Bellagio Publishing Network Research and Information Center, a program funded by the Rockefeller Foundation that assists indigenous publishing and book development in developing countries. Courses include: "Global and Comparative Systems in Higher Education" and "Issues in Contemporary Higher Education."

617.552.4236
altbach@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/altbach.html

Karen Arnold
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education
Lynch School of Education
B.A. and B. Mus. Oberlin College
M.A. and Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Success of high school valedictorians in college and after college; success in high school as an indicator of success in professional careers; educational and career compromises made by women valedictorians seeking to balance career and family; implications of lack of mentors for valedictorians; gifted and talented students; campus and classroom climate for women; women in higher education. Director of the Illinois Valedictorian Project–a study tracking 81 high school valedictorians and salutatorians since their graduation in 1981. Author of the books Lives of Promise: What Becomes of High School Valedictorians and Remarkable Women: Prospectives on Female Talent Development. Courses have included: "Symposium in Higher Education" and "College Student Development."

617.552.2649
karen.arnold.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/arnold.html

Irwin Blumer
Research Professor, Department of Educational Administration and Higher Education
Lynch School of Education
B.S. and M.A. Northeastern University
D. Ed. Boston College

Education from kindergarten through 12th grade, including administration, teaching, curriculum, special education, etc.; education reform; teacher assessment; union issues. Former superintendent of schools in Newton and Concord, Mass. Former classroom teacher, guidance counselor, and principal in various public school systems. Editor and contributor to issue paper "School Culture and Leadership: The Role of the Superintendent." Courses include: "The Principalship"; "Clinical Experience and Seminar in Administration," and "Theories of Leadership."

617.552.1956
irwin.blumer.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/blumer.html

David L. Blustein
Professor, Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology
Lynch School of Education
B.A. SUNY Stony Brook
M.S. CUNY Queens College
Ph.D. Teachers College/Columbia University

Career development–including adolescent employment, career decision making and indecision, career exploration and vocational adjustment; school-to-work transition, particularly for students who do not go on to college; work-related issues in general–job shifts, unemployment, psychological consequences of work challenges; socioeconomic class issues in psychology; group psychotherapy. Author of more than 50 articles and chapters on these topics. Courses have included: "Seminar in Group Counseling and Group Therapy"; "Career Counseling and Development."

617.552.0795
david.blustein.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/blustein.html

John Cawthorne
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Student Services
Lynch School of Education
B.A. Harvard University
M.A.T. Antioch-Putney Graduate School of Education

Education reform; standards and assessment; equity issues in education. Former vice president for education, National Urban League. Author or co-author of numerous publications and chapters, including "Changing the Culture of the University to Engage in Outreach Scholarship"; "The Standards Movement: Another Warning"; "Merging Standards and Communities of Color"; "Charter Schools and Vouchers: The Case Against," and "Investing in Education: Training the Workforce in the 90s and Beyond." Courses have included: "Family, School and Society."

617.552.4200
cawthorn@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/cawthorne.html

Walter Haney
Professor, Department of Counseling, Developmental Psychology, Research Methods
Lynch School of Education
Senior Research Associate, Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy (CSTEEP)
B.S. Michigan State University
Ed.M Harvard University
Ed.D. Harvard University

Educational evaluation and assessment and educational technology; fairness in standardized testing, including state-wide assessment examinations; problems with Scholastic Aptitude Tests–e.g., whether or not they predict future academic performance and whether or not they are fair to women and linguistic and cultural minorities; educational applications of the Internet; cheating on tests; statistical methods used–and misused–to detect cheating. Expert testimony on testing policies and procedures provided to numerous legislative, judicial and educational organizations. Senior research associate of Boston College's Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation and Educational Policy. Co-author of the books The Fractured Marketplace for Standardized Testing, which presents an analysis of the testing industry in the United States, and Testing and Evaluation: Learning from the Projects We Fund. Courses include: "Management Uses of Computers in Education"; "Expectations and Evidence for Educational Technology"; "Design of Research."

617.552.4199
walter.haney.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/haney.html

Penny Hauser-Cram
Professor, Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology
Lynch School of Education
B.S. Denison University
M.A. Tufts University
Ed.D. Harvard University

Inclusion of children with disabilities in typical classrooms; the need for early education programs; child growth and development; children and their families living in poverty. Directed follow-up study on the Brookline (MA) Early Education Project (BEEP) of 185 young adults and their parents who participated in an early education project from 1973-1980. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters, she has co-authored the books Development of Infants with Disabilities and Their Families; Early Education in the Public Schools: Lessons from a Comprehensive Birth-to-Kindergarten Program; and Essays on Educational Research: Methodology, Testing and Application. Courses have included: "Seminar in Theories of Child Development"; "Seminar in Counseling, Developmental Psychology and Research Methods."

617.552.8664
penny.hauser-cram.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/hauser-cram.html

M. Brinton Lykes
Professor, Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology
Lynch School of Education
Associate Director, Center for Human Rights and International Justice
B.A, Hollins College, M.Div. Harvard University, Ph.D. Boston College

Effects of state-sponsored terror and organized violence; human rights policy and mental health interventions. Violence toward children in Central America; methods of intervention to help children cope with violence; expressive healing techniques–drawing, body movement, drama and music–for young victims of violence; psychological research within communities to bring about change; developing community responses to violence; alternative strategies for working with children affected by organized violence in US cities. Gender and racial issues in psychology; gender, culture and theories of the self. Associate director of BC's Center for Human Rights and International Justice. Co-editor of the book Myths about the Powerless: Contesting Social Inequalities. Courses have included: "Psychology of Adolescence"; "Culture and Society"; "Child in Society: Integrative Seminar."

617.552.4200
brinton.lykes.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/lykes.html

James R. Mahalik
Professor, Department of Counseling, Developmental and Educational Psychology
Lynch School of Education
B.A., M.A., Ph.D. University of Maryland

Psychology of men; the socialization of men and its impact on their well being and that of their families and communities. Influence of gender role strain on developmental, psychological and relational well being; how gender role socialization affects men's utilization and experiences with counseling and therapy. The effect of gender roles on quality of life; how social forces (media, family, peers) create social norms around gender, and the benefits and costs of conforming/not conforming to these norms. Changing gender norms to reduce distress associated with conformity (e.g., drive for thinness in women; inability to seek help for men). Editor of American Psychological Association's Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity Bulletin and editorial board member of Journal of Counseling Psychology and Journal of Counseling and Development. Courses have included: "Issues in Counseling Men"; "Principles and Techniques of Counseling"; "Counseling Theory and Process."

617.552.4077
mahalik@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/mahalik.html

Michael O. Martin
Co-Director, Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
Research Professor, Department of Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation
Lynch School of Education
B.A. University College, Cork, M.Sc. Trinity College, Dublin Ph.D. University College, Dublin

International comparisons of student achievement; large-scale assessment of student achievement. Co-director of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, the biggest international testing study ever undertaken, involving 45 countries, five grades, two school subjects and more than a half million students. Co-director of the International Study Center at Boston College. Co-author of numerous publications evaluating and assessing the results of the TIMSS testing, including Third International Mathematics and Science Study: Technical Report Volume II. Other publications include "Are Girls Better Readers? Gender Differences in Reading Literacy," and "Reading Literacy in Irish Schools: A Comparative Analysis."

617.552.3172
michael.martin.3@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/martin.html
TIMSS

Ina V.S. Mullis
Co-Director, Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
Research Professor, Department of Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation
Lynch School of Education
B.A., Ph.D. University of Colorado

International comparisons of student achievement; large-scale assessment of student achievement; US students' educational achievement in national and international contexts. Measuring complex student skills and understandings, evaluating progress in performance, analyzing achievement data; policy uses of assessment information to increase student learning. Co-director of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, the largest international testing study ever undertaken, involving 45 countries, five grades, two school subjects and more than a half million students. Co-director of the International Study Center at Boston College. Co-author of numerous publications evaluating and assessing the results of the TIMSS testing, including "Analysis and reporting of context questionnaire data" in Third International Math and Science Study: Technical Report Volume II. Former director of the National Assessment of Educational Progress at the Educational Testing Service.

617.552.3173
ina.mullis.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/mullis.html

Joseph O'Keefe, SJ
Dean
Lynch School of Education
B.A. College of the Holy Cross, M. Div., STL Weston School of Theology, M. Ed., Ed.D. Harvard University

Urban and integrated service schools; the changing role of the principal, including new responsibilities–e.g., writing grants, coordinating health care, and external relations with the community: Catholic education; fiscal and administrative challenges facing Catholic schools in the US and United Kingdom; preparation of Catholic school teachers and administrators. International comparative education; ethics in administration. Co-author of the forthcoming book The Legacy and Future of Catholic Schools. Editor of the book including Catholic Education at the Turn of the New Century; co-editor of books including The Contemporary Catholic School: Context, Identity and Diversity. Courses include: "Catholic Schools in the 2000s"; "Seminar in Educational Administration."

617.552.8426
joseph.okeefe.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/okeefe.html

Alec Peck
Associate Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Special Education and Curriculum and Instruction
Lynch School of Education
B.A. University of San Francisco, M.S., Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University

Attention Deficit Disorder; special education; technology for people with disabilities; educational technology; rehabilitation; transit accessibility for the blind. Coordinator of the Moderate Special Needs Program at Boston College. Co-author of the books Access to Mass Transit for Blind and Visually Impaired Travelers and The Profession of Orientation and Mobility in the 1980s: The AFB Competency Study. Author of several journal articles and monographs. Serves on the executive board of the New England Regional Council or Children with Behavior Disorders and is the editor of the CCBD National Newsletter. Courses include: "Management of the Behavior of Students with Severe Special Needs"; "Working with Families and Human Service Agencies"; "Consultation and Collaboration in Education";

617.552.3149
alec.peck.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/peck.html

Joseph Pedulla
Associate Professor, Department of Educational Research, Measurement and Evaluation
Lynch School of Education
B.S. Tufts University, M.S. Northeastern University, Ph.D. Boston College

Educational testing; statewide student testing programs; grading and evaluating students. Testing and its impact on public policy; alternative assessment techniques, especially their utilization in urban schools; program evaluation. Teacher testing; college admission testing. Co-author of the book Minimal Competency Testing. Courses have included: "Classroom Assessment"; "Assessment and Test Construction"; "Design of Research."

617.552.0683
joseph.pedulla.1@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/pedulla.html

Diana Pullin
Professor of Education Law and Public Policy
Coordinator, Joint Degree Program in Law and Education
Lynch School of Education (former dean)
B.A. Grinnell College; M.A., J.D., Ph.D. University of Iowa

Testing and the law; equity issues in testing; education law and policy; rights of students with disabilities; teacher performance assessment; public policy issues in education. Author of the book Special Education: A Manual for Advocates; co-author of several books, including Selling Students Short: Classroom Bargains and Educational Reform in the American High School and Educating One and All: Students with Disabilities and Standards-Based Reform. Courses have included: "Education Law and Public Policy."

617.552.8407
pullin@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/pullin.html

Dennis Shirley
Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Special Education and Curriculum and Instruction
Lynch School of Education
B.A. University of Virginia, M.A. New School for Social Research; Ed.D. Harvard University

School reform; urban schools, teacher education, politics and history of education. Principal investigator and director of the Massachusetts Coalition for Teacher Quality and Student Achievement, whose work is to enhance the preparation of teachers whose work will focus on the improvement of urban education. Author of the books Organizing the Valley: Community Empowerment and School Reform in South Texas; Community Organizing for Urban School Reform and The Politics of Progressive Education: The Odenwaldschule in Nazi Germany. Courses have included: "Social Contexts of Education."

617.552.4202
dennis.shirley@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/shirley.html

Elizabeth Sparks
Associate Professor, Department of Counseling, Developmental Psychology, Research Methods
Lynch School of Education
B.A. Wellesley College; M.Ed. Columbia University; Ph.D. Boston College

Issues related to youth, notably African American youth, and violence; youth and community-based violence; inner-city schoolchildren as victims/witnesses of violence; achievement in urban schools; preparing teachers and administrators for work in the "war zone" of inner-city schools; training students to be more aware of multicultural/diversity issues; sociopolitical conditions that impact individuals from ethnic and non-ethnic minority groups in the US; psychopathology and mental illness treatment. Courses have included: "Multicultural Issues in Counseling"; "Psychopathology"; "Seminar in Counseling Supervision and Consultation."

617.552.0698
elizabeth.sparks@bc.edu
http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/sparks.html

Mary Walsh
Daniel E. Kearns Professor of Education and Innovative Leadership, Department of Counseling, Developmental Psychology, Research Methods
Director, Center for Child, Family and Community Partnerships
Lynch School of Education
B.A. Catholic University; M.A., Ph.D. Clark University

Developmental conceptions of illness (including AIDS) across the life-span; psychosocial functioning of homeless mothers and children; interprofessional collaboration/integrated services in urban schools and agencies. A leader of BC's innovative Gardner Extended Services School, which joins diverse professions in an effort to meet the social, educational, health and other needs of urban children and their families in school settings. Director of the Boston College Center for Child, Family and Community Partnerships. Author of the award-winning book Moving to Nowhere: Children's Stories of Homelessness, which chronicles 20 children's accounts of living in shelters due to poverty, family breakdown or parental substance abuse.

617.552.8973
mary.walsh.1@bc.edu

http://www.bc.edu/schools/lsoe/facultystaff/faculty/walsh.html