Our Guy!

Herbert J. Walberg
Expertise: Psychology, education policy, education productivity

• a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution


• a member of the Koret Task Force on K-12 Education


• a University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago.


• his research focuses on educational productivity and human accomplishments


• Walberg has written or edited more than 60 books


• also written approximately 350 articles - on such topics as the causes and effects of learning, teaching and instructional effectiveness, national comparisons of achievement, and educational measurement and evaluation.


• has held research posts at the Educational Testing Service and the University of Wisconsin


• has taught at Harvard University.


• was an adviser to former U.S. secretary of education William Bennett


• has been frequently called to testify before U.S. congressional committees and federal courts on educational matters.

Information extracted from: http://www.hoover.org/bios/walberg.html