Board of Overseers Professor of Education: Richard Ingersoll |
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December 4, 2012,
Volume 59, No. 14 |
 The University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education (Penn GSE) has named Dr. Richard Ingersoll as a Board of Overseers Professor of Education. He joined Penn GSE in 2000 and holds a secondary appointment in SAS’s department of sociology.
Dr. Ingersoll has established himself as the nation’s premier expert on teacher supply, demand and retention, and has published more than 100 articles, reports, chapters and essays on teaching as a profession. Former President Bill Clinton cited Dr. Ingersoll’s research in speeches announcing teacher recruitment and training initiatives. Dr. Ingersoll’s work influenced the No Child Left Behind Act and has been released in reports by the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future, the Education Trust, the Alliance for Excellence in Education, the National Governors’ Association and President Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Dr. Ingersoll frequently briefs local, state and federal legislators and has been invited to present his research before many policy groups, including the Aspen Institute’s Education Policy Program for Members of Congress, the Congressional Hearings on Teacher Preparation Initiatives held by the US House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and the Workforce, the National Commission on Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century chaired by Senator John Glenn, and education reform commissions in many states.
Dr. Ingersoll has received many awards, including the Richard B. Russell Award for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Georgia; the Harry Braverman Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems for his work on organizational control and accountability in schools; the National Award of Distinction from the Penn Education Alumni Association; the Outstanding Writing Award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education for his book, Who Controls Teachers’ Work? Power and Accountability in America’s Schools, published by Harvard University Press; and the 2011 Outstanding Researcher Award from the Association of Teacher Educators. He was elected as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association in 2009.
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