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Nationality: American

2002 – Spent six months at the University of Cape Town in South Africa with wife, Helen F. Ladd, who had a Fulbright Grant, carrying out research on the efforts of that country's new democratic government to build an equitable and democratic state education system in the pose-apartheid era.

2002 – Conducted journalism workshops under sponsorship of the U.S. State Department for African journalists in Johannesburg, South Africa and Lilongwe, Malawi.

2001 – Visit to Northern Pakistan to evaluate rural schools in behalf of the Aga Khan Foundation.

2000 – Attended World Education Forum in Dakar, Senegal and wrote the final report of the conference for UNESCO.

1998 – Spent five months in New Zealand with wife, Helen F. Ladd, under a Fulbright Grant doing research on that country's school reforms, which involved a move toward self-governing schools, parental choice and competition among schools for students.

1996 – Trip to Alaska and the Russian Far East to write a report for the American Russian Center in Anchorage on a U.S. Information Agency exchange program.

1995 – Trip to the former Soviet Union to write a report for the Academy for Educational Development on the training of leaders of the New Independent States.

1994 – Writer and researcher for Education Sector Review of the Cambodian education system by the Asian Development Bank, Manila.

1993-1994 – Education Coordinator for the International Rescue Committee in Battambang, Cambodia. Duties included setting up an urban school cluster as part of a UNICEF project, designing of business skills curriculum and research and writing on primary education in Cambodia.

1993 – Participant in two-week UNICEF mission to Dhaka, Bangladesh to evaluate education programs of the Bangladesh Rural Development Committee.

1992-1993 – Consultant to the Pew Forum on Education Reform, Stanford University. Also to Scholastic, Inc., and the Business Roundtable Education Initiative.

1987 – Co-moderator of debate on education policy by the major Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

1963-1964 – Staff, Church of the Master, New York City.

1961-1962 – Assistant Director, John Knox House, Geneva, Switzerland.

• Phi Beta Kappa, 1958
• Wolynsky-Joukowsky Fellow, Brown University, 1990
• Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth College, 1991
• Honorary doctorates: Occidental College, Wheeling Jesuit College, Beaver College
• Numerous journalistic awards from Education Writers Association, American Association of University Professors and other groups