David Paris, Ph.D.
James S. Sherman Professor of Government and Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty

David C. Paris, VPAA/Dean of the Faculty and James S. Sherman Professor of Government, specializes in education policy, political thought and democratic theory. He is the author of Ideology and Education Reform: Themes and Theories in Public Education, (Westview Press, 1995), and "Standards and Charters: Horace Mann Meets Tinkerbell" in Educational Policy (1998) and a number of other articles. He received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University and has been a member of Hamilton College's faculty since 1979.

TOPICS: Charter schools, education policy, the history of political thought , democratic theory

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