Charles Glenn

Senior Fellow

Professor Emeritus of educational leadership at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development

Dr. Charles L. Glenn is professor emeritus of educational leadership at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. His research in Europe and North America focused on urban schooling, parental choice, schooling of linguistic and racial minority pupils, religion and education, history and sociology of education, reconciling national standards with school autonomy and distinctiveness, school desegregation, and equity.

From 1970 to 1991, Dr. Glenn was director of urban education and equity efforts for the Massachusetts Department of Education, including administration of over $200 million in state funds for magnet schools and desegregation, and initial responsibility for the nation’s first state bilingual education mandate and the law forbidding race and sex discrimination in education.

Choice of Schools in Six Nations, 1989.

Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe, 1995.

The American Model of State and School: An Historical Inquiry, 2012.

Contrasting Models of State and School: A Comparative Historical Study of Parental Choice and State Control, New York and London: Continuum. 2011.

Native American/First Nations Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present, New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011.

African American/Afro-Canadian Schooling: From the Colonial Period to the Present, New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan. 2011.

“Catharine Beecher,” in Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent, volume I, edited by Thomas Hunt, James Carper, Thomas Lasley, and C. Daniel Raisch, Sage Publications, 2010.

“Bilingual Education,” in Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent, volume I, edited by Thomas Hunt, James Carper, Thomas Lasley, and C. Daniel Raisch, Sage Publications, 2010.

“Committee of Ten,” in Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent, volume I, edited by Thomas Hunt, James Carper, Thomas Lasley, and C. Daniel Raisch, Sage Publications, 2010.

“Common School Movement,” in Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent, volume I, edited by Thomas Hunt, James Carper, Thomas Lasley, and C.  Daniel Raisch, Sage Publications, 2010.

“Islamic Schools,” in Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent, volume I, edited by Thomas Hunt, James Carper, Thomas Lasley, and C.  Daniel Raisch, Sage Publications, 2010.

“Magnet Schools,” in Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent, volume II, edited by Thomas Hunt, James Carper, Thomas Lasley, and C.  Daniel Raisch, Sage Publications, 2010.