Heinrich Mintrop
Dr. Mintrop was a teacher in both the United States and Germany before he entered into his academic career. He received an M.A. in Political Science and German Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Education from Stanford University in1996.

As a researcher, he explores how educational policies form institutional structures that in turn shape teaching and learning in schools. He is particularly interested in the tension between student achievement and citizenship, accountability and democratization. He examined these relationships, first, in eastern German schools that underwent fundamental changes after the collapse of socialism. A number of articles and a book, Educational Change and Social Transformation (Falmer 1996), published with Hans Weiler and Elisabeth Fuhrmann, resulted from this work. He co-authored (with Bruno Losito, CEDE, Italy) The Teaching of Civic Education, a chapter in the IEA Report on Civic Education (IEA 2001) that looks at the conditions of Civic Education teaching in 28 countries.

In recent years, Dr. Mintrop has turned to the issue of school accountability and the “fixing” of “failing schools.” This work has so far produced a number of articles and book chapters on the fate of school improvement in schools on probation in the states of Maryland and Kentucky. He was recently awarded a Carnegie Corporation scholarship to study school accountability systems comparatively in the United States and Germany. He is also currently undertaking a study of the California school accountability system.

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