People: Research Faculty
Research
Professor Vinovskis’ current research interests include historical and policy studies of U.S. social, political, and education developments. Much of his policy analysis focuses on Head Start and K-12 education since the 1960s.
Contact
Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan
Room 4262, 426 Thompson Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104–2321, United States
Phone: 734–763–3407
Fax: 734–764–3341
Email: vinovski@umich.edu
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Selected Publications
Please also see Maris Vinovskis’s Curriculum Vitae (CV).
Vinovskis, M.A., From a Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind: National Education Goals and the Creation of Federal Education Policy New York: Teachers College Press, 2009.
Vinovskis, M.A., The Birth of Head Start: Preschool Education Policies in the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Vinovskis, M.A., Revitalizing Federal Education Research: Improving the Regional Educational Laboratories, the R&D Centers, and the “New” OERI Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
Vinovskis, M.A., Do Federal Compensatory Education Programs Really Work? A Brief Historical Analysis of Title I and Head Start. American Journal of Education, 1999. 107(3): p. 187-209.
Vinovskis, M.A., Have Social Historians Lost the Civil War? Some Preliminary Demographic Speculations. The Journal of American History, 1989. 76(1): p. 34-58.