William Firestone

Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago

Affiliations: Faculty member in the Educational Administration and Supervision program in the Department of Educational Theory, Policy and Administration. Director of the Center for Educational Policy Analysis (CEPA ).

Research interests: Dr. Firestone is interested in how larger social forces, especially those related to formal policy, affect teachers' work. He recently won the William J. Davis prize for the best article in Educational Administrative Quarterly in 1996 for his piece entitled "Images of Teaching and Proposals for Reform: A Comparison of Ideas from Cognitive and Organizational Research."

Policy and program implementation
qualitative methods
educational leadership

From Cashbox To Classroom: The Struggle For Fiscal Reform And Educational Change In New Jersey, Teacher's College Press, 1997

Firestone, W.A. and Fisler, J (2002) Politics, community, and leadership in a school-university partnership. Educational Administration Quarterly, 38(4), 449-493.

Firestone, W.A., Schorr, R.Y., & Monfils, L. (2004) The ambiguity of teaching to the test. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.