Charles L. Glenn

Professor of Education; Fellow of  The University Professors
AB, EdD, Harvard University; PhD, Boston University

Charles L. Glenn is professor and chair of Educational Administration & Policy, and Fellow of the University Professors Program, at Boston University, where he teaches courses in education history and comparative policy. From 1970 to 1991 he was director of urban education and equity efforts for the Massachusetts Department of Education, including administration of over $200 million in state funds for magnet schools and desegregation, and initial responsibility for the nation’s first state bilingual education mandate and for the state law forbidding race and sex discrimination in education. His research interests, teaching, and policy work include urban schooling, parental choice, schooling of linguistic and racial minority pupils, religion and education, history and sociology of education, reconciling national standards with school autonomy and distinctiveness, and school desegregation and equity, in Europe and North America. He has published a dozen books.