Jal Mehta
(Sociology & Social Policy, November 2006)
Thesis Title: The Transformation of American Educational Policy, 1980-2001: Ideas and the Rise of Accountability Politics
Committee: Christopher Jencks (chair), Theda Skocpol, Christopher Winship, Jennifer Hochschild
Initial Placement: Harvard Graduate School of Education, Post Doctoral Fellow
Current Position: Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Jal Mehta is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research explores the role of different forms of knowledge in tackling major social and political problems, particularly problems of human improvement. He has also written extensively on what it would take to improve American education, with a particular focus on the professionalization of teaching