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Biographical statement:

David L. Kirp is Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at  Berkeley. 

A former newspaper editor as well as a highly-regarded academic, his interests range across the broad terrain of social policy; his fourteen books have been translated into a number of languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Ukranian. 

With support from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Packard Foundation, he is now writing a book, Before School: How the Lives of Children Are Becoming Everyone?s Responsibility, on the universal preschool movement, and has written on that topic for the New York Times, The Nation and The American Prospect. 

For the past several years he has been looking into the inner workings of the university. 

As an acting dean of the Goldman School, and earlier as a trustee of Amherst College, he came to see the ways colleges and universities are run at first-hand. 

Those experiences led him to spend three years crisscrossing the country, visiting colleges and universities as varied as the University of Chicago, for-profit DeVry University , NYU and  Britain?s Open University?a Gulliver?s Travels journey aimed at understanding the new marketplace ethic.  

David L. Kirp:
http://gspp.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/kirp.htm

GSPP:
http://gspp.berkeley.edu/introduction_to_gspp.htm