William Lowe Boyd is Batschelet Chair Professor of Educational Leadership at the Pennsylvania State University and editor of the American Journal of Education. A widely published specialist in education policy, politics, and administration, with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, he has served as president of the Politics of Education Association, as an officer of the American Educational Research Association, as a Fulbright Scholar in Australia and England, and as a visiting scholar at ten universities abroad. His has combined his interest in music and education though many summers in leadership roles at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. In November 2002, he received the “Roald F. Campbell Lifetime Achievement Award” from the University Council for Educational Administration.
Charles Taylor Kerchner is research professor at Claremont Graduate University. His academic work specializes in educational organizations, policy, and teacher unions. Along with David Menefee-Libey, Laura Mulfinger, and Stephanie Clayton, he is completing Learning from L.A., a book on institutional change in public education based on a case study of Los Angeles, to be published by Harvard Education Press. He received his PhD from Northwestern University, and prior to joining the CGU faculty in 1976 he was assistant director of the Illinois Board of Higher Education and a reporter and editor at the St. Petersburg Times in Florida.
Mark Blyth is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Johns Hopkins University. His research interests lie in the fields of comparative and international political economy. He is the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and has published in such journals as The American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, World Politics, and West European Politics.
