2000 Leadership Award

Dr. Charles L. Glenn
Professor of Administration, Training and Policy Studies, Boston University

The Center for Public Justice presented its 2000 Leadership Award to Dr. Charles Glenn, professor and chairman of Administration, Training and Policy Studies at Boston University. His teaching and research focus on the formulation and implementation of policies affecting the education of urban and minority students. He has published extensively on parental choice, desegregation, the use of minority languages in schools, and religion and education.

Glenn is author of The Myth of the Common School (1988), Choice of Schools in Six Nations (1989), Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe (1994, 1995), Educating Immigrant Children: Schools and Language Minorities in Twelve Nations (1996), and The Ambiguous Embrace: Government and Faith-based Schools and Social Agencies (Princeton University Press, March 2000). He also has written the article on school choice in the International Encyclopedia of Education (2nd edition) and several hundred articles, book chapters, and monographs.

Glenn is active in the educational arena in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East on policies to balance common standards with school-level autonomy and choice by parents and teachers. He has also served as a consultant to Russian and Chinese education authorities and to many U.S. states and major cities. From 1970 to 1991 he was director of urban education and equity efforts for the Massachusetts Department of Education, including administration of over $500 million in state funds for magnet schools and desegregation, and initial responsibility for the nation's first state bilingual education mandates.

Glenn received his B.A. and Ed.D. degrees from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Boston University. Since 1963, he has been an ordained minister serving inner-city Boston churches.