Donald J. Peurach
Assistant Professor
Donald J. Peurach's teaching, scholarship, and outreach sit at the intersection of educational organization, reform, and policy. Peurach investigates how these domains of activity interact both to undermine and to improve leadership, instruction, and student achievement. He has conducted analyses of these interactions in the context of large-scale, network-based improvement initiatives (e.g., comprehensive school improvement programs, charter management organizations, and education management organizations). Peurach has drawn on this work in developing outreach initiatives for school leaders and as an advisor to executives managing large-scale, network-based improvement initiatives.
In 2011, Peurach received the Paula Silver Case Award from the University Council of Educational Administration for the most outstanding case published in the 2010 volume of the Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership.
Prior to joining the School of Education as a faculty member in 2011, Peurach served as an assistant professor at Michigan State University and at Eastern Michigan University. He also served as a researcher on U-M's Study of Instructional Improvement. Before to his academic career, Peurach was a high school mathematics teacher and, before that, a systems analyst in manufacturing, health care, and higher education. Peurach holds a BA in computer science from Wayne State University, an MPP from the Ford School of Public Policy at U-M, and a PhD in educational studies from the School of Education at U-M.
Peurach teaches courses in the following program(s): Educational Administration and Policy;Educational Policy and Leadership.
Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Peurach, D.J., Glazer, J.L., and Lenhoff, S. (2012). Make or buy? That's really not the question. Phi Delta Kappan, 93 (5).
Glazer, J.L. and Peurach, D.J. (In press). School improvement networks as a strategy for large-scale reform: The role of educational environments. Education Policy.
Peurach, D.J., Lenhoff, S., and Glazer, J.L. (2012). Large Scale High School Reform through School Improvement Networks: Examining Possibilities for "Developmental Evaluation." Paper to be presented at the 2012 Conference of the National Center on Scaling Up Effective Schools. Nashville, TN: June, 2012.
Peurach, D.J. and Glazer, J.L. (2011). Reconsidering replication: New perspectives on large-scale school improvement. Journal of Educational Change. DOI 10.1007/s10833-011-9177-7.
Peurach, D.J. and Gumus, E. (2011). Executive leadership in school improvement networks: A conceptual framework and agenda for research. Current Issues in Education, 14 (3).
Peurach, D.J. and Marx, G.E. (2010). Leading systemic improvement: Confronting complexity in turnaround schools.Journal of Cases in Educational Leadership, 13 (3), 26-36.
Books
Peurach, D.J. (2011). Seeing complexity in public education: Problems, possibilities, and success for all. New York, New York: Oxford University Press.
Cohen, D.K., Gates, K., Glazer, J.L., Goldin, S., and Peurach, D.J. (In press). Improvement by design. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Book Chapters
Peurach, D.J. (In press). Has allowing and encouraging private corporations to participate in public education positively affected school governance? In F. Brown, R. Hunter, and S. Donahoo (Eds.), Debating issues in American education: School governance. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Affiliations
Research Affiliations
Grants
| 1/1/2010 - 9/30/2011 | Building Capacity for Instructional Leadership Granting Agency: Michigan Department of Education |
| 1/1/2006 - 8/30/2007 | Extending the Study of Instructional Improvement Granting Agency: National Science Foundation |
| 1/1/2009 - 6/30/2010 | Nongovernmental Support for School Improvement: Executive-Level Practices, Capabilities, and Learning Granting Agency: Michigan State University College of Education |
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