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Research Biography

My past research has focused on school design collaborative (Ball Foundation); partnership relationship between College of Education and select schools working in a continuous improvement model; school law topics generally.

My current projects include writing personel administration text, working with two school improvement projects, and an edited volume in Advances in Educational Administration series.

My new area of research will be to publish the personnel administration book and to continue the refinement of the continuous improvement model.

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Education Administration, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1975
  • J.D., Law, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 1974
  • M.A., History, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1969
  • B.A., History, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, 1967

Key Professional Appointments

  • Professor, Educational Organization and Leadership, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1992--

Grants

  • Principal Investigator, Illinois Building a Presence for Science, Illinois Science Teachers Association, 2003
  • Principal Investigator, ISBE Support to the New Leaders Assistance Service Program, U.S. Department of Education (Illinois State Board of Education), 2001

Selected Publications

  • Alexander, F. K., & Thurston, P. W. (1999). Higher Education. In C. J. Russo (Ed.), The yearbook of education law 1999 (pp. 237-293). Dayton, OH: Education Law Association.
  • Sergiovanni, T. J., Burlingame, M., Coombs, F. S., & Thurston, P. W. (1997). Educational Governance and Administration, Fourth Edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ; Allyn and Bacon. More about this publication...
  • Clift, R. T. & Thurston, P. W. (eds.) (1995) Advances in Educational Administration. Distributed Leadership: School Improvement through Collaboration. Vol. 4. Westport, CT.: JAI Press, Inc. More about this publication...
  • Thurston, P. W. Dismissal of tenured teachers in Illinois: Evolution of a viable system. University of Illinois Law Review, volume 1990, number 1, pp. 1 to 93. More about this publication...

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