Improving Educational Productivity (HC) (Research in Educational Productivity)

Covering such issues as teaching quality, the interface between public and private schooling, and measuring school efficiency, this text addresses the improvement of educational productivity in the USA

He serves on the editorial boards of the Economics of Education Review, the Journal of Education Finance, Educational Policy, and the Journal of Research in Rural Education. He consults widely on matters related to educational productivity and the organizational structuring of schools and school districts and is a past president of the American Education Finance Association.

Herbert J. Walberg is University Scholar and Research Professor of Education and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also Distinguished

Visiting Fellow at Stanford University (1999-2004). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and was formerly an Assistant Professor at Harvard University, where he taught test construction and related courses. He has written and edited more than 55 books and written about 350 articles on such topics as educational effectiveness and exceptional human accomplishments. Among his latest books are the International Encyclopedia of Educational Evaluation and Psychology and Educational Practice. Dr. Walberg served on the National Assessment Governing Board, "the national school board," which sets education standards for U.S. students and to measure progress in achieving them. The National Assessment provides information on changes in educational achievement in the U.S. as well as comparisons of individual states. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, and the Royal Statistical Society, Dr. Walberg is also a founding fellow and vice president of the International Academy of Education, headquartered in Brussels. He edits for the Academy a booklet series on effective educational practices, which is distributed by the International Bureau of Education to some 4,000 education officials in more than 150 developing countries. He has also given invited lectures to educators and policymakers in the U.S. and many foreign countries. He has frequently testified before U.S. congressional committees, state legislators, and federal courts. In his research, Dr. Walberg employs experiments and analyses of large national and international data sets to discover the factors in homes, schools, and communities that promote learning and other human accomplishments.

He also employs research synthesis to summarize effects of various educational conditions and methods on learning and other outcomes. The results of this work have important bearings on education policy and practice. For the U.S. Department of Education and the National Science Foundation, he carried out comparative research in Japanese and American schools. For the U.S. Department of State and the White House, he organized a radio series and book about American education distributed in 74 countries. Walberg chaired the Scientific Advisory Group for the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development project on international educational indicators. He also advised UNESCO and the governments of Israel, Japan, Sweden, and the U.K. on education research and policy. He advised several states on standards and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Educational Excellence and Testing Equity.