Carl Glickman

Carl Glickman is President, Institute for Schools, Education, and Democracy (isedinc@aol.com) and was University Professor of Education at The University of Georgia, Athens. Carl began his career as a Teacher Corps intern in the rural south and later was a principal of award winning schools in New Hampshire. In 1990, he founded the nationally validated Georgia League of Professional Schools.Carl serves as a convener of The Forum for Education and Democracy and is a steering committee member of The National Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools. He is the author of 13 books on school leadership, educational renewal, and the moral imperative of education. His book Letters to the Next President: What We Can Do About the Real Crisis in Public Education was chosen by ForeWord Magazine as one of the two outstanding books in education for 2004. The new edition of Letters to… was released this past winter and his next book Those Who Dared: Five Visionaries Who Changed American Education will be published by Teachers College Press. (All royalties from both books are donated to non profit organizations serving youth and can be found at http://store.tcpress.com.)