Professor William Reese
Carl F. Kaestle WARF Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Department of Educational Policy Studies
215 Education Building
1000 Bascom Mall
Madison, Wisconsin 53706
Tel: (608) 262-2812
Messages: (608) 262-1760
Email: wjreese@wisc.edu
Doctoral Degree:
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ph.D. Educational Policy Studies, Major Area: History of Education, 1980.
Academic Areas of Interest:
History of American and European Education; History of Childhood and Adolescence; Historiography; Social Reform Movements in the Twentieth Century.
On-Campus Affiliations:
Jointly appointed, History Department;
Affiliation, European Studies
Honors and Awards:
Member, National Academy of Education.
Current and Recent Professional Activities:
Former editor, and associate editor, History of Education Quarterly.
Former President, History of Education Society, and Vice-President, History and Historiography, Division F., American Educational Research Association.
Current editorial board member, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Pedagogica Historica and Journal of Welsh Education.
Past member, editoral board, American Journal of Education, Review of Research in Education, and various book and encyclopedia projects.
Current Research Projects:
Current funded research project on the history of academic standards and promotion policies in urban schools (Spencer Foundation).
Recent and Representative Publications:
History, Education, and the Schools. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
America's Public Schools: From the Common School to 'No Child Left Behind'. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Power and the Promise of School Reform: Grassroots Movements During the Progressive Era. Boston and London: Routledge, 1986; Teachers College Press, 2002.
Hoosier Schools: Past and Present (Editor). Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
The Origins of the American High School. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995.
The Social History of American Education (Co-Editor). Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Courses Taught:
Undergraduate courses:
EPS 412: History of American Education
EPS 478: Comparative Studies in Childhood and Adolescene
Graduate courses:
A variety of graduate seminars, including the following:
"School Reform Movements in the 20th Century," "The History of Childhood," "What is History?"
Graduate seminar in the History Department: "Reform Movements During the Progressive Era and New Deal."
