Lagemann Is Named at Spencer

The Spencer Foundation, a Chicago-based philanthropy that supports research in education, last week named Ellen Condliffe Lagemann, a nationally known education historian, as its next president.

Ms. Lagemann, a professor of history and education at New York University and a longtime scholar of education research, is the president of the National Academy of Education, an honorary society of scholars that has sought over the years to improve research on schooling.

She is the author of An Elusive Science: The Troubling History of Education Research , scheduled to be published next month by the...

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