Background
Mitchell L. Stevens was born on May 26, 1966, in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. He is the son of Wendell C. and Lola C. Stevens.
Mitchell L. Stevens
1600 Grand Ave, St Paul, MN 55105, United States
Macalester College where Mitchell L. Stevens received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
633 Clark St, Evanston, IL 60208, United States
Northwestern University where Mitchell L. Stevens received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
1600 Grand Ave, St Paul, MN 55105, United States
Macalester College where Mitchell L. Stevens received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
633 Clark St, Evanston, IL 60208, United States
Northwestern University where Mitchell L. Stevens received his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.
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More than one million American children are schooled by their parents. The few studies conducted suggest that homeschooled children are academically successful and remarkably well socialized. Yet we still know little about this alternative to one of society's most fundamental institutions. Sociologist Mitchell Stevens goes behind the scenes of the homeschool movement and into the homes and meetings of homeschoolers. What he finds are two very different kinds of home education - one rooted in the liberal alternative school movement of the 1960s and 1970s and one stemming from the Christian day school movement of the same era. Stevens explains how this dual history shapes the meaning and practice of homeschooling today.
https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Children-Controversy-Homeschooling-Princeton/dp/0691114684
2001
(Creating classes, Stevens finds, is a lot more complicate...)
Creating classes, Stevens finds, is a lot more complicated than most people imagine. Stevens shows that the job cannot be done without "systematic preferencing," and racial affirmative action is the least of it. With novelistic flair, sensitivity to history, and a keen eye for telling detail, Stevens explains how elite colleges and universities have assumed their central role in the production of the nation's most privileged classes. Creating a Class makes clear that, for better or worse, these schools now define the standards of youthful accomplishment in American culture more generally.
https://www.amazon.com/Creating-Class-College-Admissions-Education/dp/0674034945
2007
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Between 1945 and 1990 the United States built the largest and most productive higher education system in world history. Over the last two decades, however, dramatic budget cuts to public academic services and skyrocketing tuition have made college completion more difficult for many. Nevertheless, the democratic promise of education and the global competition for educated workers mean ever-growing demand. Remaking College considers this changing context, arguing that a growing accountability revolution, the push for greater efficiency and productivity, and the explosion of online learning are changing the character of higher education. Writing from a range of disciplines and professional backgrounds, the contributors each bring a unique perspective to the fate and future of the United States higher education.
https://www.amazon.com/Remaking-College-Changing-Ecology-Education/dp/0804791678
2015
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Despite decades of government and philanthropic investment in international scholarship, the most prestigious academic departments still favor research and expertise in the United States. Why? Seeing the World answers this question by examining university research centers that focus on the Middle East and related regional area studies. Drawing on candid interviews with scores of top scholars and university leaders to understand how international inquiry is perceived and valued inside the academy, Seeing the World explains how intense competition for tenure-line appointments encourages faculty to pursue American projects that are most likely to garner professional advancement.
https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-World-Universities-Knowledge-Princeton/dp/069115869X
2018
Mitchell L. Stevens was born on May 26, 1966, in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. He is the son of Wendell C. and Lola C. Stevens.
Mitchell Stevens began his studies in 1985 at Macalester College where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude in 1988. Then he went to Northwestern University and obtained a Master of Arts degree and then a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1996.
Mitchell Stevens began his teaching career in September 1995 when he was appointed at Hamilton College as an associate professor of sociology, working in this position till May 2003. From October 2003 till December 2008 he was an associate professor of education and sociology at New York University. Then he joined Stanford University as a professor of education and sociology at the Graduate School of Education where he has been working up to the present day. His research interests include alternative schooling, educational policy, higher education, leadership and organization, and lifelong learning. At the university, he is also director of the Center for Advanced Research through Online Learning. He also served as director of the Scandinavian Consortium for Organizational Research in 2010 - 2017.
In addition to teaching, Stevens is actively involved in researching and writing. With Ben Gebre-Medhin from the University of California, Berkeley, he developed a synthetic account of change in the United States higher education. With Arik Lifchitz and Michael Sauder, he developed a theory of sports and status in the United States higher education. He also co-convened a project on the responsible use of student data in higher education.
His publications include Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement (2001), Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites (2007), and Seeing the World: How US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era (with Cynthia Miller-Idriss and Seteney Khalid Shami, 2018). He edited Chaucer's Pardoner's Prologue and Tale: An Annotated Bibliography, 1900 to 1995 (2001) and Remaking College: The Changing Ecology of Higher Education (2015). With Mike Kirst, he edited a volume on the organizational ecology of the United States colleges and universities. He contributed articles to journals, including Work and Occupations Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Annual Review of Sociology, and many others.
Mitchell Stevens is a recognized sociologist as well as an outstanding educator. He is particularly known as a professor of education and sociology at Stanford University. He is considered to be an expert on innovation in college education. His books and publications on this theme received wide acclaim. He was listed as a noteworthy sociologist and educator by Marquis Who's Who.
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2001Mitchell Stevens is a member of the American Sociological Association and Society for the Study of Social Problems.
