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C.V.


PATRICK J. MCGUINN

Associate Professor of Political Science and Education, Drew University

FULL TIME APPOINTMENTS
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Princeton, NJ (2009-2010) Associate Professor of Political Science, Drew University, Madison, NJ (2009-present) Assistant Professor of Political Science, Drew University, Madison, NJ (2005-2009)
Visiting Scholar, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY , (Fall 2007) Visiting Assistant Professor of Government, Colby College, Waterville, ME (2004-2005)
Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer, Brown University, Taubman Center for Public Policy &
American Institutions, Providence, RI (2003-2004)
EDUCATION Ph.D. in Government, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, August 2003
M.Ed. in Education Policy, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, January 2001
M.A. in Government, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, January 2000
B.A. in Government & History (with Honors), Franklin and Marshall College, May 1993
Junior Year Abroad, London School of Economics and Political Science, England, 1991-1992
BOOK
No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005
(University Press of Kansas, June 2006) Selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The project seeks to explain the recent transformation and expansion of national involvement in education in light of the country’s history of decentralized school governance and the longstanding opposition of both liberals and conservatives to an active, reform-oriented federal role in schools. More broadly, it examines how national politicians and political parties use salient policy issues in the pursuit of electoral advantage and utilizes a historically-based policy regimes framework to explain how reformers are sometimes able to overcome institutional and political obstacles to bring about major policy change. It argues that education has played a major—even decisive—role in broader political and ideological debates in the U.S. over the past twenty years because it emerged as a “swing issue” with vital electoral significance in an era of partisan parity and narrow electoral margins.
Current Book Projects

Education Governance for the 21st Century: Overcoming the Structural Barriers to School Reform (Co-Edited with Paul Manna)
Co-sponsored by the Center for American Progress and the Fordham Institute
The past twenty years have witnessed major challenges to long-standing forms of K-12 education governance in the United States. The country’s tradition of local control of schools has been challenged by persistent racial and socio-economic achievement gaps and the poor performance of American students compared to their international peers. Several new actors, institutions, and approaches to schooling have begun to offer alternatives that would reshape how our schools are managed and financed. Education governance is in a moment of profound transition. Although long-standing institutions such as state agencies and local school boards persist, the relationships among them, their leaders, the politicians that oversee them, the interest groups that pressure them, and their own respective responsibilities are all in flux. The federal government has altered its role from funder to change agent. New delivery systems (e.g. charter schools, virtual schools) fit awkwardly if at all into the old structures. The moment is ripe for a comprehensive assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of what remains of the old, what has emerged of the new, and what alternative configurations would produce better educational outcomes for children. This edited volume aims to provide a roadmap for adapting the country’s 19th and 20th century governance structures for public education to the changed demands of the 21st century.  Confirmed contributors: Jeff Henig (Columbia), Cindy Brown (Center for American Progress), Checker Finn (Fordham), Ken Wong (Brown), Paul Hill (Washington), Sir Michael Barber (Tony Blair's education advisor), Rick Hess (AEI), Barry Rabe (Michigan), Katie McDermott (UMass), Mike Mintrom (Auckland), and Ken Meier (Texas A&M). 

Negotiated Settlement: Policy Feedback and the Implementation and Reauthorization of NCLB

This project will build on my earlier work by examining how the ambitious and controversial expansion of federal power in schools has reconfigured educational politics and practice in the U.S. It will examine ongoing efforts at both the state and federal level to restructure administrative institutions and relationships, create new political alliances, and reframe public debates over school reform. The book will provide an in-depth analysis of the inter-governmental negotiations over the implementation of NCLB and their impact on the Congressional debate over the law's reauthorization. The political and policy evolution of NCLB will be used to shed light on the contours of 21 st century American federalism and the ability of reformers to sustain major policy changes over time.

PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

“The Federal Role in Educational Equity: The Two Narratives of School Reform and the Debate over Accountability,” in Danielle Allen and Rob Reich, ed.  Education, Democracy, and Justice. (In press, University of Chicago Press).

“Incentives, Information, and Infrastructure: The Federal Role in Educational Innovation,” in Rick Hess, ed.  Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Sobering Lessons from a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America’s Schools. (In press, Harvard Education Press).  (With Larry Berger)

“Stimulating Reform: Race to the Top, Competitive Grants and the Obama Education Agenda,” Educational Policy (In press)
 
“Education and Politics in the United States,” in David Coates, ed.  The Oxford Companion to American Politics (In press, Oxford University Press).

“Parent and Community Engagement: The School of the Future Meets the Urban District of Today,” in Frederick Hess and Mary Cullinane, ed. What Next? Educational Innovation and Philadelphia’s School of the Future (Harvard Education Press, 2010).

“George W. Bush's Education Legacy: The Two Faces of No Child Left Behind,” in Robert Maranto, Tom Lansford, and Jeremy Johnson, ed. Judging Bush (Stanford University Press, 2009). (With Frederick Hess)

“ The New Politics of Education: Analyzing the Federal Education Policy Landscape in the Post-NCLB Era,” Educational Policy 2009 23: 15-42. (With Elizabeth DeBray-Pelot.)

“Nationalizing Schools: Education and American Political Development,” in Richard Harris and Daniel Tichenor, ed. Political Behavior and Public Policy: Interdisciplinary Essays on American Political Development. (ABC-Clio, 2009)

“Education Policy from the Great Society to 1980: The Expansion and Institutionalization of the Federal Role in Schools,” in Brian Glenn and Steven Teles, ed. Conservatism and American Political Development. (Oxford University Press, 2009)

“Equity Meets Accountability: The Implementation of No Child Left Behind in New Jersey ,” in Frederick Hess and Chester Finn, ed. No Remedy Left Behind: Lessons from a Half-Decade of NCLB. (AEI Press, 2007).

“The Policy Landscape of Educational Entrepreneurship,” in Frederick Hess, ed. Educational 
Entrepreneurship: Realities, Challenges, and Possibilities. (Harvard Education Press, 2006).
“Swing Issues and Policy Regimes: Federal Education Policy and the Politics of Policy Change.” Journal of Policy History. Spring 2006.
“The National Schoolmarm: No Child Left Behind and the New Educational Federalism.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 35, Number 1, Winter 2005.

“Freedom From Ignorance? The Great Society and the Evolution of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act,” in Sidney Milkis and Jerome Mileur, ed. The Great Society and the High Tide of Liberalism. University of Massachusetts Press. September, 2005. (With Frederick Hess).
“Muffled By the Din: The Competitive Non-Effects of the Cleveland Voucher Program,” Teachers College Record Volume 104, Number 4, 2002, pages 727-764. (With Frederick Hess).
“Seeking the Mantle of ‘Opportunity’: Presidential Politics and the Educational Metaphor, 1964-2000.” Educational Policy (Volume 16, Number 1, 2002, pages 72-95). (With Frederick Hess).
“Civic Education Reconsidered.” The Public Interest Fall Issue, Number 133, 1998, pages 84-104). (With James Ceaser).

Think Tank Reports
“Creating Cover and Constructing Capacity: Assessing the Origins, Evolution, and Impact of Race to the Top.”  (American Enterprise Institute, December 2010.) 

“E Pluribus Unum in Education?  Governance Models for National Standards and Assessments from Outside the World of K-12 Schooling.”  (Fordham Institute, June 2010.) 

“Ringing the Bell for K-12 Teacher Tenure Reform” (Center for American Progress, Feb. 2010)

OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Review essay of Lee W. Anderson's Congress and the Classroom: From the Cold War to “No Child Left Behind,” Gareth Davies' See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan , and Carl F. Kaestle and Alyssa E. Lodewick's To Educate a Nation: Federal and National Strategies of School Reform. Perspectives on Politics (September 2008).

“All (Education) Politics is Local?” Review Essay in Governance . (January, 2008)

“No Child Left Behind and Federal Regulation of Schools,” American Bar Association Focus on Law Studies (Fall, 2007)

“The Era of Education: Is it Beginning or Ending?” Review Essay in Reviews in American History, March 2007.

“Seeking the Mantle of ‘Opportunity’: Presidential Politics and the Educational Metaphor, 1964-2000.” Reprinted in Tough Love for Schools: Essays on Competition, Accountability, and Excellence (American Enterprise Institute Press, 2006). (With Frederick Hess).
“No Child Left Behind,” Daily briefing for Oxford Analytica, Fall 2005.
Contributor to Brian Balogh, et. al. “Making Democracy Work: A Brief History of Twentieth Century Federal Executive Reorganization,” Miller Center Working Paper on American Political Development, July 2002. Wrote chapter on the creation of the Department of Education.
“Race and Vouchers: The Disconnect Between African American Elite and Mass Opinion.” Virginia Center for Educational Policy Studies Bulletin Fall Issue, 2001.

Courses Taught

  • Education Policy and Politics, Drew University and Colby College
  • School and Society, Drew University MAT program (graduate course)
  • Race, Politics, and Public Policy, Drew University and Colby College
  • Public Policy, Drew University and Hampden-Sydney College
  • Congress, Drew University and University of Virginia
  • No Child Left Behind???, Drew University
  • Practicum in Political Science, Drew University
  • Political Science Research Methods, Drew University and Colby College
  • Introduction to American Government, Drew University and Colby College
  • State and Local Politics, Drew University
  • Freshman Seminar on Education Policy, Brown University
  • Education Policy Challenges, Brown University, Junior-Senior Seminar
  • The Presidency, Sweet Briar College

FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
Member, Future of American Education Working Group , American Enterprise Institute

• Visiting Scholar/Member , School of Social Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study , Princeton,NJ (Sept. 2009- June 2010); Fellowship for post-tenure sabbatical

“Outstanding academic title” designation by Choice magazine, for No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005, 2006
• Nominated for APSA’s Harold Lasswell Award for Best Dissertation in Public Policy, 2003
• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Public Policy, Taubman Center for Public Policy and American
Institutions, Brown University, 2003-2004
• Faculty Senate Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research, UVA, 2002-2003
Selected by UVA faculty to receive the University’s most prestigious dissertation fellowship, which recognizes “graduate students who have taught extraordinarily well at UVA while maintaining a record of excellence in their disciplinary research.”
• International Achievement Summit Delegate, 2002
• Selected as one of “the world’s most outstanding graduate students” by the Academy of Achievement and participated in their annual summit in Dublin, Ireland in June 2002
• National Fellow in American Political Development, Miller Center of Public Affairs, ‘01-02
Selected from a competitive national applicant pool to receive a fellowship supporting research in contemporary American history, public policy, and politics.
• Raven Society, elected by students and faculty to UVA’s oldest and most prestigious honor
society in recognition of “high scholastic achievements, service to the University, and the promise of future advancements in the intellectual field”
• Graduate Fellow, University of Virginia Center for Governmental Studies, 2000-2001
• Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant, UVA Department of Politics, Fall 1999 • Outstanding Graduate Student Representative, UVA Student Council, 1998-1999 • Teacher of the Year, Queen Anne School, 1997

Conference Papers and Invited Presentations
"The State of Education in the States: The Evolving Federal Role in American School Policy."  Invited presentation to “Education and the State: Historical Perspectives on a Changing Relationship” conference, University of Zurich (Switzerland), September 17, 2011.

 “E Pluribus Unum? New Approaches to Intergovernmental Relations and Standards Setting in 21st Century Policymaking,” American Political Science Association Conference, September, 2011.

“Federal School Imporvement Grant Program,” Aspen Institute Senior Congressional Education Staff Retreat, August 23-25, 2011.

Briefing for U.S. Department of Education Teacher Ambassadors program, July 2011.

“Incentives, Information, and Infrastructure: Race to the Top, i3 and the Federal Role in Innovation,” Carrots, Sticks, and the Bully Pulpit: Sobering Lessons from a Half-Century of Federal Efforts to Improve America’s Schools conference. American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, May 23, 2011.   (With Larry Berger)
 
Testimony before the New Jersey Senate Education Committee, on proposed teacher quality reform legislation, December 9, 2010.

“From Cash to Compliance: The Evolution of the U.S. Department of Education and the Federal Grant-in Aid System,” History of Education Society annual conference in Philadelphia, PA October 24, 2009
 
“The Past, Present, & Future of No Child Left Behind,” Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science Research Seminar, October 22, 2009
 
“Parental and Community Engagement: The School of the Future Meets the Urban District of Today,” Educational Innovation and Philadelphia’s School of the Future conference, American Enterprise Institute, May 28, 2009
 
“The New Politics of Education: Analyzing the Federal Education Policy Landscape in the Post-NCLB Era,” Annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 15, 2009.  (With Elizabeth DeBray-Pelot.)

George W. Bush's Education Legacy: The Two Faces of No Child Left Behind,” at the Judging Bush conference at Villanova University, November 22, 2008.

“No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy,” presented at the Politics, Activism and the History of America's Public Schools conference at the University of Pennsylvania, April 12, 2008.

“Education & the '08 Presidential Election,” Teachers College, Columbia University , Nov. 2007

“The Past, Present, & Future of NCLB,” Miller Center for Public Affairs, UVA, November 2007

“Equity Meets Accountability: New Jersey and the Implementation of No Child Left Behind” presented at the American Enterprise Institute conference Fixing Failing Schools: Examining the NCLB Toolkit, November 30, 2006.
“The Past, Present, and Future of No Child Left Behind,” Presented at the 2006 Policy History Conference, June 3, Charlottesville, VA at Colby College, Oct. 2006
“Conservatives, the Great Society, and Federal Education Policy, 1963-1980,” Presented at the Conference on Conservatism and American Political Development at Yale University, February 24, 2006. (Also presented at the 2006 Policy History Conference, June 3, Charlottesville, VA.)
“The Policy Landscape of Educational Entrepreneurship,” Presented at the American Enterprise Institute Conference: “Educational Entrepreneurship: Why It Matters, What Risks It Poses, and How to Make the Most of It,” November 14, 2005, Washington, D.C. (Also presented at the 2006 Policy History Conference, June 3, Charlottesville, VA, and the American Political Science Association Conference in September, 2006.)
“Massive Resistance Re-dux? Politics and the Future of No Child Left Behind,” Presented at the September 2005 meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC.
“Path Dependency, Punctuated Equilibria, and the Politics of Policy Change.” Presented at the September 2004 meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
“Educating Politics: The Transformation of Federal Education Policy 1965-2002.” Presented at the September 2004 meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.
“Breaking Open the Iron Triangle: Interest Groups, Swing Issues, and Federal Education Policy.” Presented at the November 2003 meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA. Also served as panel chair and discussant on additional panels.
“The National Schoolmarm: The 2000 Election & the New Politics of Federal Ed. Policy.” Paper presented at the August 2002 meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston Massachusetts. (Panel organizer.) Also Presented at the May 2002 Miller Center Fellows Conference in Charlottesville, VA.
“Race & School Choice: The Disconnect Between African-American Elite & Mass Opinion.” Paper presented at the August 2001 meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA. Also presented at the April 2001 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago Illinois.
“Passing the Teaching Torch: How to Create a Teaching Development Program for Graduate Students,” (with Darby Morrisroe). 2001 mtg of Midwest Political Science Assoc., April 2001.
“A Hampered Market: The Story of Voucher Competition in Cleveland,” (with Frederick Hess). Presented at the American Educational Research Assoc. Conference. New Orleans, LA, 2000.

Additional Professional Experience
Member, Future of American Education Working Group, American Enterprise Institute
Editorial Board, Publius: The Journal of Federalism (Oxford University Press)
Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, American Politics
Research, Educational Policy, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Education Policy Analysis Archives, AERA Handbook on Education Policy Research, Oxford University Press, Harvard Education Press, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Congressional Quarterly Press, Cornell University Press, National Science Foundation.
Media Interviews: NPR, CNN, CBS Evening News, New York Times, Wall Street Journal,
Education Week, Associated Press, Congressional Quarterly, The Daily Record, Inside Higher Education, Christian Science Monitor, NJ Star Ledger, French press agency (AEF), Miami Herald

Instructor, NJ SEEDS Making Change Program, summer enrichment program for disadvantaged high school students, 2007

Member, Interview Team, Presidential Oral History Project, Miller Center of Public Affairs,
Former Secretary of Education Richard Riley, 2004
Editor, www.americanpoliticaldevelopment.org, President/Cong. sections (Aug.2002-present)
Master Teacher, High School Summer Enrichment Program, UVA, Summer 1998 and 1999
Fellow, Council for American Private Education (Washington, D.C., Summer 1995)
Monitored Congressional committee hearings and aided in development of organization’s legislative strategy; researched federal policy issues related to private schools.
Faculty, Social Studies Department, Queen Anne School (Upper Marlboro, MD, 1994-1997)
Designed curriculum and taught high school courses in AP American Government, Introduction to American Government, U.S. History, World History, and Ethics; Also Model Congress and Model UN advisor, Academic advisor, College placement advisor.
Analyst, Institute for Strategy Development (Washington, D.C., 1993–1994)
Attended and reported on meetings of committees and subcommittees of the U.S. House and Senate and of various federal regulatory agencies. Drafted daily client reports and a weekly newsletter on political and policy developments in Washington that affected the financial services industry. Advised clients on their government lobbying strategies.

SELECTED LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE
Drew Center for Civic Engagement Committee Co-Chairman (2006-present)
Working to develop a university-wide interdisciplinary center for community outreach, service learning and collaborative faculty-student research on public policy issues
Director, Drew Pol. Science Department’s Ewing Center for Public Service (2006-present)
Masters of Teaching (MAT) Committee Member (2006-present)
Worked with area public school administrators to develop a new Drew masters degree program to provide K-12 teacher training and certification
Political Science and Law Club Faculty Advisor (2006-present)
Chief departmental liaison between student organization and faculty
Undergrad Journal of Public Policy and Law Advisor (2006-present)
Honors Committee Member (2006-present)
Elected by Drew faculty to chair honors thesis committees in the College of Liberal Arts
National Trustee, The Foundation Fighting Blindness, (2000-2005)
Member of the Board of Trustees and Government Relations Committee of national non-profit organization dedicated to funding education, outreach, and research for cures for vision-related diseases. Lobby Congress for increased funding for National Eye Institute.
President, UVA Graduate Arts and Sciences Student Council (2000-2001)
Represented and advocated the interests of the graduate student population in university affairs; worked with the UVA administration to obtain health insurance for grad students
Co-Founder and Member, UVA Government Graduate Student Council (1997-2001)
Alumni Volunteer, Franklin and Marshall College, (1993-1997)
Executive Committee Founding Member, Alumni Association, Maret School, (1994-1997)