Updating Tradition: Governing the Schools from Chicago's City Hall
Dorothy Shipps

Dorothy Shipps is Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Education at the School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, CUNY. She teaches courses in educational policy analysis, school-community relationships, accountability, and leadership. Prior to becoming a professor, she was a co-director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research, consultant to policy makers and civic leaders on school reform. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, she directed education extension for several universities in California.

Shipps is the author of a recent book on Chicago’s schools School Reform, Corporate Style: Chicago 1880-2000 (2006), and is co-editor with Larry Cuban of Reconstructing the Common Good in Education (2000). In addition, she has published numerous chapters and articles on school reform, mayoral control in Chicago, and the civic capacity needed to institutionalize reform.

She has been honored as a Carnegie Scholar (2000-01), and a Warren Weaver Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation (1994-5). Her Ph.D. is from Stanford University and her M.A in Asian Studies is from the University of California at Berkeley.

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