Kenneth K. Wong
Department Chair;
The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor in Education Policy;
Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and Urban Studies;
Director of Urban Education Policy Program
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(401) 863-1486 (phone)
(401) 863-1276 (fax)
Kenneth_Wong@brown.edu
Dr. Kenneth Wong is the first Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair for Education Policy and is currently the Chair of the Education Department. While holding joint appointment with the Education Department and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR), Dr. Wong directs the master’s program in urban education policy. The 12-month program, designed to prepare students for professional careers involving policy development and analysis in urban public education, is a collaborative effort of the Education Department, AISR, the Taubman Center for Public Policy, and The Education Alliance.
Office Hours
Spring SemesterWednesdays
1 - 2 pm and by appointment
Degrees
University of Chicago PH.D., 1983
Political Science Thesis nominated for the 1984 L.D. White Award of the American Political Science Association
University of Chicago M.A., 1980
Political Science
University of Chicago B.A. (Hons), 1977
Political Science
Publications
2007 -Wong, K.K., Shen, F.X., Anagnostopouls, D. and Rutledge, S. The Education Mayor: Improving America's Schools. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press. in print http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Education/education_mayor.php
2006 -Wong, Shen, Anagnostopouls and Rutledge. How Mayors Improve School Performance. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press (Under Contract). in print
2006 -Wong, Nicotera, and Guthrie. Successful Schools and Education Accountability. New York: Allyn & Bacon (Under Contract).
2005 -Wong. “The Changing Landscape in School Governance: Implications for Establishing Knowledge Claims,” Chapter in D. E. Mitchell, ed., New Foundations for Knowledge in Educational Administration, Policy, and Politics: Science and Sensationalism. Mahwah, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
2004 -(Edited Book) DeMoss and Wong. Money, Politics, and Law. 2004 Yearbook of the American Education Finance Association. Larchmont: Eye on Education.
2004 -(Edited Book) Wong. Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Brown V. Board of Education: Reconsidering the Effects of the Landmark Decision (Special Issue of the Peabody Journal of Education)
2004 -(Edited Book) Wong, Guthrie, and Harris. A Nation at Risk: A 20-Year Reappraisal. Mahwah: Lawrence Erlbaum.
2004 -Wong and Nicotera. “Brown v. Board of Education and the Coleman Report: Social Science Research and the Debate on Educational Equality,” Peabody Journal of Education Vol 79, No.2: 122-135.
2004 -Wong and Nicotera. “Educational Quality and Policy Redesign: Reconsidering the NAR and Federal Title I Policy,” Peabody Journal of Education Vol 79, No.1: 87-104
2004 -Wong and Shen. “When Mayors Lead Urban Schools: Toward developing a framework to assess the effects of mayoral takeover of urban districts,” Chapter 4 in W. Howell, ed. Besieged: School Boards and the Future of Education Politics (Brookings Institution Press: Washington DC, In Press).
1999 -Wong. Funding Public Schools: Politics and Policy. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
1990 -Wong. City Choices: Education and Housing. Albany: SUNY Press.
1986 -Peterson, Rabe, and Wong. When Federalism Works. Washington, D.C.: Brookings.
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Director, National Research Center on School Choice, Competition and Student Achievement, funded by a $10 million IES grant
Full Professor, Department of Leadership and Organizations at Peabody College, and Associate Director of the Peabody Center for Education Policy, Full Professor, Department of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Associate Professor, Department of Education, University of Chicago
Research/Projects
National Research Center on School Choice, Competition, and Student Achievement
Principal Investigator, School Choice Project at Brown University, and Former Director, National Research Center on School Choice, Competition, and Student Achievement, U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences
Program Evaluation of the Math and Science Projects Program
Co-Principal Investigator, "Program Evaluation of the Math and Science Projects Program," a $3.5 million contract (part of the $13.5 million contract led by COSMOS Corporation) from the National Science Foundation
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Areas of Expertise
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Courses
EDUC1650 - Policy Implementation in Education
EDUC2330 - Urban Politics and School Governance
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