End of Exceptionalism in American Education

Jeffrey R. Henig is a professor of political science and education and chair of the Department of Education Policy and Social Analysis at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is also a professor of political science at Columbia University. He is the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics, and the Challenge of Urban Education (Princeton University Press, 1999) and Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools (University Press of Kansas, 2001), both of which were named—in 1999 and 2001, respectively—the best book written on urban politics by the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Spin Cycle: How Research Is Used in Policy Debates: The Case of Charter Schools (Russell Sage Foundation, 2008) won the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Outstanding Book Award, 2010. Most recently, Henig coedited and contributed to Between Public and Private: Politics, Governance, and the New Portfolio Models for Urban School Reform (Harvard Education Press, 2010), winner of the Districts in Research and Reform SIG Best Book Award, 2012.