Roger C. Shouse
Associate Professor, Department of Education Policy Studies
The Pennsylvania State University
302B Rackley Bld.
University Park, PA 16802
(814) 865-1487
rcs8@psu.edu
Professional Background
June 2000 - present: Associate Professor, College of Education, Department of Education Policy Studies, The Pennsylvania State University. Typical teaching responsibilities include courses on educational administration, leadership, and research design.
August 1994 – May 2000: Assistant Professor of Education, Penn State.
July, 1990 – August 1994: Graduate Research Assistant, Ogburn-Stouffer Center for the Study of Population and Social Organization, National Opinion Research Center, The University of Chicago.
September 1989 - March 1993: Graduate Research Assistant and Managing Editor of Administrator's Notebook, Midwest Administration Center and Center for School Improvement, The University of Chicago
October 1985 - June 1989: Mathematics Teacher, Detroit Public Schools, Detroit, MI.
January 1976 - June 1985: Mathematics/Social Studies Teacher, part time and full time, Dearborn Public Schools, Dearborn, MI.
Ph.D. in Administrative, Institutional, and Policy Studies, Department of Education, The University of Chicago, June 1994.
MA in Education, The University of Michigan, Rackham School of Graduate Studies, December 1985.
BA in Political Science (With Distinction), The University of Michigan, December 1975.
Coleman, J., Schneider, B., Plank, S., Schiller, K.& Shouse, R. (1997). Redesigning American Education. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Recent Articles, Chapters, and Other Publications
Shouse, R. (2002). “School Effects.” In David L. Levinson, et. al, (Eds.), Education and Sociology: An Encyclopedia. Pp. 519-524. New York: Routledge Falmer.
Shouse, R. (2001). The Impact of Traditional and Reform-Style Practices on Student Mathematics Achievement. In Tom Loveless (Ed), The Great Curriculum Debate: How Should We Teach Reading and Math? Pp. 108-133. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution
Mussoline, L, Shouse, R. (2001). “Will One-Size School Restructuring Fit All? Some Cautionary Evidence for Disadvantaged Schools." Sociology of Education, January, 2001
Shouse, R., Mussoline, L. (2000). "High Risk, Low Return: the Achievement Effects of Restructuring in Disadvantaged Schools." Social Psychology of Education, 3:4, pp. 245-259.
Takei, Y., Chang, S. & Shouse, R. (2000). "Academic Performance of Asian American Adolescents: Cultural Capital or Social Capital?" Pacific Educational Research Journal, 10:1, pp. 23-42.
Shouse, R. (1998). "Restructuring's Impact on Student Achievement: Contrasts by School Urbanicity." Educational Administration Quarterly, 34: 5, pp. 677-699.
Shouse, R., Ford, D., Kleine-Kracht, P. & Ryan, S. (1997). "The Prince and the Principal." In Merseth, Katherine K. (Ed.), Case Studies in Educational Administration. New York: Longman.
Boyd, W. and Shouse, R. (1997) "The Problems and Promise of Urban Schools." In Reyes, O., Walbert, H. & Weissberg, R. (Eds), Children and Youth: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Shouse, R. (1996). "Academic Press and Sense Of Community: Conflict and Congruence in American High Schools." Research in Sociology of Education and Socialization, 11, pp. 173-202.
Shouse, R. (1996). "Academic Press and Sense Of Community: Conflict, Congruence, and Implications for Student Achievement." Social Psychology of Education, 1:1, pp. 47-68
Recent Presentations
Shouse, R. “Democratic Spirit and Civic Mindedness: The Organizational Impact of High School.” Invited paper for the Seminar on the Future of the Comprehensive High School. Program in Educational Sociology, School of Education, New York University, March 2000. A revised version of this paper was also presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, April 2000.
Shouse, R. “The Impact of Reform-Style Practices on Student Mathematics Achievement: Evidence from the National Education Longitudinal Study.” Invited paper to be presented at the Conference on Curriculum Wars: Alternative Approaches to Reading and Mathematics. Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University, October 1999.
Mussoline, L, Shouse, R. "Will 'One Size' School Restructuring Fit All? Some Cautionary Evidence for Disadvantaged Schools." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, August 1999.
Shouse, R. "School Restructuring and its Social Context." Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association,
August 1997.
Grants and Awards
Susan Colver-Rosenberger Prize, Best Dissertation, 1994 - 1997, Department of Education, Social Science Division, The University of Chicago, Academic Orientation in School Society.
Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship, The National Academy of Education, June 1995.
College Alumni Society Faculty Initiation Grant, College of Education, The Pennsylvania State University, November 1994.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for School Teachers, "Great Theorems of Mathematics in Historic Context." The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Summer 1988.