Accomplishments & Accolades

Professor Charles Glenn Publishes Major Study of Educational Freedom

Congratulations to HAN member Charles Glenn (SSC 96), Boston University Professor of Education and Chairman of Administration, Training and Policy Studies, who recently published a study of educational freedom in 26 countries, co-authored by Jan De Groof, Professor of Law at the College of Europe in Burges, Belgium.

Finding the Right Balance: Freedom, Autonomy and Accountability in Education, Volume 1, examines the interplay between providing educational choice to parents and satisfying standards such as accountability, pupil and teacher rights and the integrity of a school’s mission. Taking a different approach than most, Glenn and De Groof situate the question in the local and historical context of each country. They conclude, among other things, that school choice can be—and often is—successfully reconciled with other social concerns, based on the concrete particulars of each situation.

Volume 2 of the study will be published in the fall of 2002.

HAN Congratulates Two Clerks for the Supremes

During the 2001-2002 U.S. Supreme Court session, the Human Action Network was proud to have two members represented as clerks for the High Court. Matthew Berry and Neomi Rao served as clerks for Justice Clarence Thomas. Berry attended IJ’s Law Student Conference in 1995 and was a staff attorney at the Institute for Justice from 1998 through 2001. Rao was a member of the Law Student Conference Class of 1997.