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Changing Federal Strategies for Supporting Educational Research, Development, and Statistics - September 1998
Maris Vinovskis is the Bentley Professor of History and a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Political Studies in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He has been at the University of Michigan for over 20 years and has recently served as the chair of the Department of History. He has authored or co-authored 7 books, edited or co-edited another 7 volumes, and written approximately 90 scholarly articles and essays. His most recent book, History and Policymaking: Exploring the Uses of History for Educational Policymaking, will be published by Yale University Press next year. Vinovskis has received a Distinguished Faculty Award from the University of Michigan and has won a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was elected President of the History of Education Society and was also named a member of the National Academy of Education.
Vinovskis was the Deputy Staff Director to the U.S. House Select Committee on Population in 1978 and served as a consultant to the Office of Family Planning Programs and the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was the Research Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) in both the Bush and Clinton Administrations in 1992 and 1993 and then served as a consultant to OERI for 2 years. He is currently a member of the Independent Review Panel for the U.S. Department of Education as well as a participant on the federal Even Start evaluation board.
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