Ernest R. House
Ernest R. House is an American academic specializing in program evaluation and education policy. He has been a Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2002. House was a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1985 to 2001. Before that, he was a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1969 to 1985. He has been a visiting scholar at UCLA, Harvard, University of New Mexico, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and also in England, Australia, Spain, Sweden, Austria, and Chile.
With Ronald Wooldridge, he was editor-in-chief of the journal New Directions for Program Evaluation from 1982 to 1985.Education
House graduated from Washington University with a bachelor's degree in English in 1959. He earned a master's degree in secondary education from Southern Illinois University in 1964, and completed a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1968.Awards and honors
House is the author of many books, including the following.
- The Politics of Educational Innovation
- Survival in the Classroom
- Evaluating with Validity
- Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Charisma: The Rise and Fall of the Push/Excel Program
- Professional Evaluation: Social Impact and Political Consequences
- Schools for Sale: Why Free Market Policies Won't Improve America's Schools, and What Will
- Values in Evaluation and Social Research
- Regression to the Mean: A Novel of Evaluation Politics
