Dr. Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, Senior Advisor, The District Management Council

Ellen Condliffe Lagemann is the Levy Institute Research Professor at Bard College and a Senior Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard. Until July 2009, she was the Charles Warren Professor of the History of American Education at Harvard University. A historian of education, Lagemann is a former dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former president of the Spencer Foundation.

Lagemann is the author or editor of nine books as well as numerous articles, reviews, reports, and book chapters. Among her books are:

An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research; The Politics of Knowledge: The Carnegie Corporation, Philanthropy, and Public Policy; and Private Power for the Public Good: A History of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

She has also served as president of the National Academy of Education and of the History of Education Society and is a former trustee of the Russell Sage, Greenwall, and Markle Foundations and a former vice-chair of the board of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral and Social Sciences in Stanford, California. She is currently a senior advisor to the District Management Council and a member of the Board of the Rennie Center for Education Research and Policy, both in Cambridge, MA, as well as chair of the National Research Council's Committee on Teacher Preparation.