Mayoral Control: What We Can and Cannot Learn From Other Cities
Jeffrey R. Henig

Jeffrey R. Henig is a professor of political science and education at Teachers College, and professor of political science at Columbia University. Among his books on education policy and politics are Rethinking School Choice: Limits of the Market Metaphor (Princeton 1994); The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics and the Challenge of Urban Education (Princeton 1999); Building Civic Capacity: The Politics of Reforming Urban Schools (Kansas, 2001), and Mayors in the Middle: Politics, Race, and Mayoral Control of Urban Schools (Princeton University Press 2004). His latest book, Spin Cycle: How research Gets Used in Policy debates, The Case of Charter Schools will be published in early 2008.

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