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Introducing Your Special Guest Stars: Lautzenheiser, Dickenson, and Kingsland

January 9, 2012 at 7:53 am

Hi all. So I'm about to take a break from the blog, to duck some of the post-Edu-Scholar rankings excitement and to focus on my upcoming book on cage-busting leadership. Fortunately, I think we've once again lucked into a stellar line-up of fresh guest blogging talent to step up for the next three weeks.

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Top 25 RHSU Edu-Scholars: 2012 v. 2011

January 6, 2012 at 8:07 am

If we compare this year's Edu-Scholar top 25 to 2011's, there are a lot of familiar faces--and some interesting movement. New to the top ten this year, from 2011, are Terry Moe, Richard Arum, and David Cohen. Moe rocketed up the chart, from 34th to sixth, with a big assist from his influential new treatise Special Interest. David Cohen's jump was similarly impressive, as he shot from 35th to tenth.

New to the top 20 from last year are Dan Koretz, Bob Pianta, and Camilla Benbow. And new to the top 25 from last year were Andy Porter and Jay Greene. (See just below for the 2012 Top 25, and the second table for 2011's Top 25).

2012 Top 25 RHSU Edu-Scholar Rankings

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The 2012 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings

January 4, 2012 at 7:47 am

Today, RHSU unveils the 2012 Edu-Scholar Public Presence rankings. The metrics, as explained yesterday, are designed to recognize those university-based academics who are contributing most substantially to public debates about schools and schooling. The rankings offer a useful, if imperfect, gauge of the public impact edu-scholars had in 2011, factoring in both long-term and shorter-term contributions. The rubric reflects both a scholar's body of academic work--encompassing books, articles, and the degree to which these are cited--and their 2011 footprint on the public discourse. The following table reports the 2012 rankings.

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RHSU Exclusive: The Five-Tool Policy Scholar

January 3, 2012 at 8:30 am

Tomorrow in this space, I'll be publishing the 2012 RHSU Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings. Today, just like last year, I want to take a few moments to explain what those ratings are about and how they were generated.

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Coming Next Week: 2012 RHSU Edu-Scholar Rankings

December 30, 2011 at 9:19 am

Just to give readers a head's up, next week we'll be running the 2012 RHSU Edu-Scholar Rankings. The exercise is intended to counter what I think is the academy's unfortunate tendency to discount scholarly contributions that impact public understanding and policy debate. The Edu-Scholar Rankings are intended to recognize university-based scholars, of any discipline or bent, for their contributions to the public square. Impact is understood as encompassing both the corpus of one's scholarly work (how many widely-cited works a scholar has penned, the number of books, etc.) and one's centrality to public discussion in 2011 (appearances in newspaper articles, online media, and so forth).

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