Coming Next Week: 2012 RHSU Edu-Scholar Rankings
by Frederick M. Hess • Dec 30, 2011 at 9:19 am
Cross-posted from Education Week
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ShareJust to give readers a head's up, next week we'll be running the 2012 RHSU Edu-Scholar Rankings. The exercise is intended to counter what I think is the academy's unfortunate tendency to discount scholarly contributions that impact public understanding and policy debate. The Edu-Scholar Rankings are intended to recognize university-based scholars, of any discipline or bent, for their contributions to the public square. Impact is understood as encompassing both the corpus of one's scholarly work (how many widely-cited works a scholar has penned, the number of books, etc.) and one's centrality to public discussion in 2011 (appearances in newspaper articles, online media, and so forth).
After all, a scholar's impact on schooling is a product of several factors, including their body of scholarship, the
