Robert Maranto

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Robert Maranto is affiliated with the following schools: James Madison University, University of Minnesota, University of Virginia, Villanova University, University of Arkansas

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Anthony Maranto is a political scientist who holds the 21st Century Chair in Leadership at the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Maranto earned his doctorate in political science from the University of Minnesota in 1989, and has taught at ten colleges and universities. The son of a career bureaucrat, he is strongly interested in efforts to make public bureaucracies better serve the public. He has written widely on civil service reform, university reform, and school reform, particularly on charter schools.

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Thinking the Unthinkable in Public Administration (1998) (69)
School Choice In The Real World: Lessons From Arizona Charter Schools (1999) (62)
Small Districts in Big Trouble: How Four Arizona School Systems Responded to Charter Competition (2001) (61)
The politics of civil service reform (1998) (59)
Why they choose and how it goes: Comparing special education and general education cyber student perceptions (2014) (51)
Beyond a Government of Strangers: How Career Executives and Political Appointees Can Turn Conflict to Cooperation (2005) (44)
A Tale of Two Cities: School Privatization in Philadelphia and Chester (2005) (41)
Reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (2012) (40)
How Do We Get Them on the Farm? Efforts to Improve Rural Teacher Recruitment and Retention in Arkansas (2018) (38)
Cops, Teachers, and the Art of the Impossible: Explaining the Lack of Diffusion of Innovations That Make Impossible Jobs Possible (2013) (37)
Neutrality: An Enduring Principle of the Federal Service (1992) (33)
Politics and Bureaucracy in the Modern Presidency: Careerists and Appointees in the Reagan Administration (1993) (32)
Educational Economics: Where Do School Funds Go? (2012) (32)
Radical reform of the civil service (2001) (31)
President Obama and education reform : the personal and the political (2012) (30)
A Smarter Charter: Finding What Works for Charter Schools and Public Education by Richard D. Kahlenberg and Halley Potter (2015) (29)
Still Clashing after All These Years: Ideological Conflict in the Reagan Executive (1993) (29)
President Obama and Education Reform (2012) (28)
Determinants of Student and Parent Satisfaction at a Cyber Charter School (2014) (28)
Teachers’ Attitudes and the Success of School Choice (2004) (26)
Comparing the Roles of Political Appointees and Career Executives in the U.S. Federal Executive Branch (2000) (25)
Did the Teachers Destroy the School? Public Entrepreneurship as Creation and Adaptation (2015) (25)
Using “World Series Shares” to Fight Free Riding in Group Projects (1998) (24)
Desert Bloom: Arizona's Free Market in Education. (2000) (22)
Educational Renegades: Dissatisfied Teachers as Drivers of Charter School Formation (2009) (22)
Diversifying the Academy: How Conservative Academics Can Thrive in Liberal Academia (2012) (22)
Why KIPP Is Not Corporate: KIPP and Social Justice (2014) (22)
Right Turn? (2004) (20)
Show Them the Mission: A Comparison of Teacher Recruitment Incentives in High Need Communities (2014) (18)
Coping With Competition: The impact of Charter Schooling on Public School Outreach in Arizona (2005) (17)
How Traditional Public Schools Respond to Competition: The Mitigating Role of Organizational Culture (2010) (17)
Resistance in the Trenches: What Shapes Teachers' Attitudes Toward School Choice? (2000) (17)
Why Intelligence Is Missing from American Education Policy and Practice, and What Can Be Done About It (2020) (16)
Does Private School Competition H-arm Public Schools? Revisiting Smith and Meier's (2000) (16)
The Diverse Schools Dilemma: A Parent's Guide to Socioeconomically Mixed Public Schools by Michael J. Petrilli (2013) (16)
The Softer Side of "No Excuses". (2014) (15)
A Guide to Charter Schools: Research and Practical Advice for Educators (2006) (15)
Knowing the Rational Peasant: The Creation of Rival Incentive Structures in Vietnam (1992) (15)
Lessons from KIPP Delta (2011) (14)
Harnessing Private Incentives in Public Education (2009) (13)
Bringing Back Boss Tweed? Could At-Will Employment Work in State Government and, If So, Where? (2008) (12)
In the Storm's Eye: How Race, Experience, and Exposure Shape Arizona Teachers’ Attitudes toward School Choice (2002) (11)
Does Rural Differ? Comparing Parent and Student Reasons for Choosing Cyber Schooling (2018) (11)
Praising Civil Service but Not Bureaucracy (2002) (11)
Gendered Ambition: Men’s and Women’s Career Advancement in Public Administration (2018) (11)
The Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good (2006) (10)
The Social Determinants of Health: Looking Upstream (2018) (10)
Boys will be superintendents (2018) (10)
The Obama presidency : change and continuity (2011) (9)
The Wild West of Education Reform: Arizona Charter Schools (2018) (9)
The Politically Correct University (2005) (8)
No One Way to School: Pluralism and American Public Education, by Ashley Rogers Berner (2017) (8)
Anticipating Change in the Higher Civil Service: Affective Commitment, Organizational Ideology, and Political Ideology (2003) (8)
Education Reform in the Obama Era (2016) (8)
Charter School Regulation as a Disproportionate Barrier to Entry (2020) (7)
Parent Involvement And Student/Parent Satisfaction In Cyber Schools (2013) (7)
No Contractual Obligation to Improve Education: School Boards and Their Superintendents (2017) (7)
Gaining Practical Insights from Experience: Reflections on Cases of Racial Discrimination in Federal Service (2000) (6)
American Civil Service Reform in Historical Perspective@@@A Short History of the United States Civil Service (1993) (6)
The Truth About the Politically Correct University (2020) (6)
Empowering Teachers? An Exploratory Study of Personnel Practices in Virtual Charter Schools in the United States (2014) (6)
From the Delta Banks to the Upper Ranks (2017) (6)
Is Collegiate Political Correctness Fake News? Relationships between Grades and Ideology (2019) (6)
Reinventing Tenure: What Schools Can Learn from Public Reform Policy. (1999) (5)
Options for Low-Income Students: Evidence from the States (2004) (5)
Does Familiarity Breed Acceptance? (1991) (5)
Not Separate and Not Equal? Achievement and Attainment Equity in College Towns (2015) (4)
Does Where You Stand Depend on Where You Sit? Careerists' Attitudes toward Political Appointees under Reagan (2016) (4)
The American Educational Industrial Complex: A Critique of a Concept Submitted to the Journal of School Choice (2011) (4)
Prisoners of History: Explaining Why Statist Belgium Has School Vouchers While Liberal America Does Not (2018) (4)
Desert Bloom?: Lessons from Two Decades of Arizona Charter Schooling (2018) (3)
A Preliminary Analysis of Charter Schools and District Superintendent Turnover in Arizona: Politics, Market Forces, and Leadership. (2009) (3)
The PC Academy Debate: Questions not Asked (2010) (3)
Why mission matters more for (some) charter principals (2018) (3)
Letting a Thousand Flowers (and Weeds) Bloom: The Charter Story in Arizona. (2000) (3)
Introduction to a Special Section on COVID-19 and Schooling in the U.S.: Disruption, Continuity, Quality, and Equity (2020) (3)
Seeking Relevance: American Political Science and America (2012) (3)
Finishing Touches: More Than a Quarter of All Public Schools in Arizona Are Now Charter Schools. Some Districts Have Lost More Than 20 Percent of Their Students to Charters. Guess Who's Concerned? (Forum) (2001) (3)
Education Reform and School District Leadership: Did Initial Charter Penetration Influence Superintendent Salaries in Arizona? (2015) (3)
Lobbying in Disguise. (2003) (3)
Do Testing Conditions Explain Cyber Charter Schools’ Failing Grades? (2018) (3)
Between Elitism and Populism: A Case for Pluralism in Schooling and Homeschooling (2020) (3)
Cops, Teachers, and the Art of the Impossible: ‎Explaining the Lack of Diffusion of Impossible ‎Job Innovations (2010) (3)
Road Weary? Testing Whether Long Commutes to Testing Sites Explain Deficient Cyber Charter School Academic Performance (2020) (3)
Won't Back Down Misfires on Parent Trigger, but Gets the Politics, Organizations Right (2016) (3)
Warding Off Competition: The Impact of School District Outreach on Charter Expansion in Arizona (2017) (3)
Left Behind? School Choice in Rural Communities (2019) (3)
Can Markets Set Bureaucrats Free? The Effects of School Choice on Teacher Empowerment in the Public Schools. (2000) (2)
Why They Come and Go: Comparing Special Education and General Education Students in Cyberschools (2021) (2)
Rethinking the Unthinkable (1998) (2)
Department Chair* (2020) (2)
Homework in Cyber Schools: An Exploratory Study in an American School. (2017) (2)
A Political Scientist Runs for School Board (2018) (2)
Still Pluralist After All These Years? Considering Whether Political Science Fosters Tolerance for Dissent or Merely Promotes Leftist Values (2021) (2)
Testing Patience (2016) (2)
Why Don’t Schools Teach Poetry? (2015) (2)
Making Violence Transparent: Ranking Police Departments in Major U.S. Cities to Make Black Lives Matter (2020) (2)
The Death of One Best Way: Charter Schools as Reinventing Government (2018) (2)
Journal of School Choice Special Issue Call for Manuscripts, Due June 15, 2020: Elitism, Populism, and School Choice (2020) (2)
Left behind? School choice in rural communities (2019) (2)
Choosing cyber during COVID (2021) (2)
Lobbying in Disguise: The American Federation of Teachers "Studies" Charter Schools. (Check the Facts) (2003) (2)
Improving School Boards: A Balanced Governance Approach, edited by Thomas J. Alsbury and Phil Gore (2016) (1)
Boot Camps and Science Camps: Comparing the KIPP and Harmony Charter School Networks (2011) (1)
Plus ca Change, Plus C’est la Même Chose: Editor’s Introduction to the Volume (2016) (1)
Elite schools lead: an empirical examination of diversity requirements in higher education job markets (2022) (1)
Special Interest: Teachers Unions and America's Public Schools by Terry M. Moe (2011) (1)
A Place for Us? Latino Parent and Student Satisfaction in a Cyber School. (2017) (1)
High-Mobility-Ratio, Bottom Water Drive Reservoirs (1965) (1)
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch (2010) (1)
President Obama and Education: The Personal and the Political: Robert Maranto and Michael Q. McShane (2012) (1)
Is Cyber Like In-person? Relationships between student-student, student-teacher interaction and student achievement in cyber schools (2022) (1)
Schools for Scandal: Why School Scandals Simmer, but Don't Boil Over (2019) (1)
Ignoring Advice: The Disillusionment of Public School Politics (2004) (1)
Race to the Top: Introducing Competition for Federal Dollars (with Daniel H. Bowen) (2012) (1)
The More Divided Academy: Did the Fall of the Faculty and the Rise of the All-Administrative University Increase Racial Conflict in Higher Education? (2020) (1)
A Review of “The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance” (2010) (1)
Environmental Influences on the Epidemiology of Multi-Resistant Organisms: 158. (1998) (1)
Editor’s welcome to volume 12: The end of accountability and the importance of being effective (2018) (1)
Introduction to the Special Issue (2016) (1)
Can Academia and the Media Handle the Truth? (2020) (1)
Gendered Ambition: Career Advancement in Public Schools (2017) (1)
Editor’s Introduction to Volume 14: The End of Ed. Reform? (2020) (1)
The Educational–Industrial Complex in Comparative Perspective (2016) (1)
Real World School Choice: Arizona Charter Schools (2018) (1)
Losing the War of Ideas? Why Teachers Unions Oppose School Choice (2017) (1)
An Inconvenient Analysis: Title IX’s Shortcomings (2020) (0)
Gay Marriage as Status Symbol (2019) (0)
The Educational Industrial Complex: A Comparative Test of Budget Maximization (2010) (0)
Does Charter School Mission Affect Survival and Growth? An Addendum to White and Huang’s Census of Charter School Foci and Models 1 (2021) (0)
Clashing Interests and Clashing Ideas: Myths, Pluralism, and the Educational Industrial Complex (2012) (0)
Gender, Career Paths, and Bureaucratic Ambition in Public Schools. (2017) (0)
Family Change, Schools, and School Choice (2021) (0)
Reinventing Government: Shaping Culture (2002) (0)
Education Reform and School District Leadership: Did Initial Charter Penetration Influence Superintendent Salaries in Arizona? (2015) (0)
JOURNAL OF SCHOOL CHOICE SPECIAL ISSUE: School Choice in Europe (2022) (0)
The Obama Education Agenda (2012) (0)
Common Core Standards: A Bridge Too Far? (2016) (0)
Introduction (2014) (0)
Unionization, public school reform, and teacher professionalism (2020) (0)
How Schools Respond to Competition: The Mitigating Role of Organizational Culture (2005) (0)
Common Core Standards (2012) (0)
Common Core Standards: Developmental, Redistributional, and Contentious (2012) (0)
Editor’s Welcome to Volume 13: Can We Do Better than “Professional” Bureaucracy? (2019) (0)
The Education of Eva Moskowitz (2018) (0)
Common Cents (2020) (0)
Markets, NCLB, and School Superintendent Turnover: An Analysis of Arizona Data (2010) (0)
The Obama Education Agenda: The Personal is Educational (2012) (0)
The Dangers of Waivers: How the Obama Administration Nationalized Education Policy (2016) (0)
The book I bought my school board (2019) (0)
Does KIPP Grow Advantaged? Analyzing KIPP Campuses Over Time (2016) (0)
Unionization, public school reform, and teacher professionalism (2021) (0)
2. Bush’s Brain (No, Not Karl Rove) (2020) (0)
Shall This Too Pass? Education Reform in the Obama Era and Beyond (2016) (0)
In Lieu of Conclusions: Tentative Lessons from a Contested Frontier (2018) (0)
Suppressing Speech: Worse than McCarthyism (2022) (0)
History and Policy (2012) (0)
Seeking Relevance: Toward a Strategic Plan for Political Science (2010) (0)
Thanks to Reviewers (2004) (0)
Forced choice? Is bullying pushing non-binary students into cyber schools? (2023) (0)
Introduction to the Special Issue: The best of the 2018 ISCR Conference (2018) (0)
The Birth of the Education President: From Local Control to Common Core (2016) (0)
Some Changes at the Journal of School Choice (2018) (0)
Introduction to the Special Issue: Elitism, Populism, and School Choice (2021) (0)
Call for Papers: 1992 Annual Meeting (1991) (0)
Covid, Capitol Insurrection, And (A Lack Of) Education—Time For E.D. Hirsch? (2021) (0)
The First Day of KIPP: a case study (2011) (0)
Governing the White House: From Hoover through LBJ. By Charles E. Walcott and Karen M. Hult. (Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1995. Pp. 372. $40.00 cloth, $22.50 paper.) (1996) (0)
School Quality, Racism, Alienated Teachers, or Active Parents---What Drives Demand for School Choice? (2007) (0)
The Reagan Presidency: Assessing the Man and His Legacy – Edited by Paul Kengor and Peter Schweizer (2007) (0)
Is Bullying Pushing Nonbinary Students Out of Physical Schools? (2022) (0)
In the Storm's Eye: How Race, Experience, and Exposure Shape Arizona Teachers’ Attitudes toward School Choice (2002) (0)
Surprising Times: Editor’s Introduction to Volume 11 (2017) (0)
Are Second Terms Second Best? Why George W. Bush Might (or Might Not) Beat the Expectations (2006) (0)
Improving Undergraduate Writing (1989) (0)
Plague Day (2020) (0)
Reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act: Challenging the Education Industrial Complex (2012) (0)
No Child Left Behind and the Policy Context of the Obama Education Agenda (2012) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Greetings From the New Editor (2015) (0)
The Second Term of George W. Bush (2006) (0)
“Judging Me by What I Do”: Comparing Special Education and General Education Cyber School Students (2012) (0)
Educating Believers: Lessons from School Choice Research (2018) (0)
Introduction to the Special Issue (2016) (0)
Would You Vote for Colin Powell? (2022) (0)
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Educationby Diane Ravitch: (2010). New York, NY: Basic Books, 283 pp., $26.95 (hardcover) (2010) (0)
International Relations and Politics (1998) (0)
Licensed Mediocrity (2015) (0)
How Arizona Teachers View School Reform (2018) (0)
The second term of George W. Bush : prospects and perils (2006) (0)
Building a Learning Culture in America, by Kevin P. Chavous (2017) (0)
What School Board Training Doesn't Teach About Hiring Your Superintendent (2021) (0)
Clashing Interests and Clashing Ideas (2012) (0)
Incident at a Small Campus (2019) (0)
In Service of Citizenship: YES Prep Public Schools and Civic Education (2013) (0)
Breaking the Barriers: Cases of Racial Discrimination in Public Management (1999) (0)
To His Coy Coauthor (2018) (0)
Better to Fight Another Day: A Pre-Theory of Insurgent Coalitions (1988) (0)
A Madisonian Man (2015) (0)
Lessons from KIPP Delta: A KIPP School in an Arkansas Backwater Succeeds by Tightly Focusing on Its Mission of Getting Kids into and through College, Then Organizing Tactics and Strategies around That Goal (2011) (0)
Why E.D. Hirsch Matters Now More Than Ever (2019) (0)
Gentrification and Schools: The Process of Integration When Whites Reverse Flight by Jennifer Burns Stillman (2013) (0)
Numbers from an Academic Conference (APSA 2018) (2019) (0)
Introduction (2013) (0)
Civic Disengagement (2017) (0)
Doctoral Prelims as Pluralistic Peril (2017) (0)
A Test of Downs' “Blackmail Parties” Thesis: The New York Conservatives and Liberals, 1956–1980 (2008) (0)
Charter Schools: Hope or Hype?, by Jack Buckley and Mark Schneider (2009) (0)
Moving Forward: Four Trends Remaking Public Schooling and how the Obama Administration Manages the Changes (2012) (0)
The End of the Experiment: The Rise of Cultural Elites and the Decline of America’s Civic Culture (2018) (0)
Public Education Is Vietnam: Money and Good Intentions Do Not Mean We Win (2013) (0)
School Choice in Europe (2023) (0)
Mommy-Nanny as Principal-Agent in The Nanny Diaries (2016) (0)
Debating Robert Weissberg: Why We Should Read but Not Accept Bad Students, Not Bad Schools (2012) (0)
The Rational Terrorist: Toward a New Theory of Terrorism (2020) (0)
Bureaucracies are Losing: What Does that Mean for Schooling? (2022) (0)
Bush's Brain (No, Not Karl Rove):‎ How Bush’s Psyche Shaped His Decision-Making (2009) (0)
An Inconvenient Movie (2013) (0)
Charter School Closing Inequities: Do automatic closure laws target Black charter entrepreneurs and Black students? (2022) (0)
Do Charter Schools Improve District Schools? Three Approaches to the Question (2018) (0)
Comment on Simmons' Study of Political Correctness in the Academy (2008) (0)

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