Publications

  • 2013: Six Degrees of School Improvement: Empowering a New Profession of Teaching (Book Review)
  • Teachers College Record, January 18, 2013. I review Purinton's text on the empowerment of the teaching profession through the use of social networks, focusing on the network model of the organization as a method of considering ways to sustain teachers' work.

  • 2009: Social Capital in Urban Public School Leadership.
  • The Dialectics, Vol 3: 20‑26. Social capital, the use of social relations to facilitate the production of economic and non-economic goods, is an essential tool of effective, reform-minded urban school leadership.

  • 2007: Rural Health Care: Training and Keeping the Next Generation of Providers.
  • Winner of the Hamilton Project's Economic Policy Innovation Prize. I propose a system of grants giving health care providers educational opportunities in rural clinics in order to address unprecedented provider and skill shortages.