Snail Mail: 5K38 Wesley Posvar
Hall, School of Education, University
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 15260 Work:
+1.412.648.7114 Fax: +1.412.624.2609
E-Mail: mmcclure@pitt.edu Websites:
www.pitt.edu/~mmcclure,
www.ginie.org
EDUCATION
Univ.
of Rochester: 1984 Ph.D. Educational
Finance and Policy
1982 M.S. Educational
Administration
1980 M.B.A. Applied Economics in the Nonprofit
Sector
Allegheny
College: 1971 M.A. Secondary
Education
1969 B.
A. English
University
of Glasgow: 1968 Scots Literature/European Art History
AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION: Expertise in educational strategy for
professional development, governance and educational finance in decentralized,
crisis and chronically weak regional political economies; Internet-based peer
learning networks in crisis and rapid economic transition; interagency
coordination.
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE 1995- Director, Global Information Network in Education
(GINIE)
project, primarily funded by USAID, UNESCO and UNHCR
1990-94 Associate Executive Director,
Tri-State Area School Study Council, University of Pittsburgh
1990- Associate Professor of Administrative and Policy
Studies: Senior Research
Associate, International
Institute
for Studies in Education, University of Pittsburgh
1983-90 Assistant Professor of Educational
Administration, University of Pittsburgh
1980-83 Assistant Professor of Management,
St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE:
Prof.
McClure is the Director of the GINIE project, an Internet-based learning
community for education and professional development in nations in crisis and
transition. The GINIE project supports two UN-led interagency coordination
networks, the Network on Education in Emergencies (NEE) and the Secondary
Education Reform and Youth Policy (SERYP) network. She is a member of the board of editors for Leadership and
Policy in Schools and Educational
Considerations.
She
is a past member of the US Technical Planning Panel for Education Finance at
the National Center for Education Statistics. She is a past elected member of
the national board of the American Educational Finance Association (AEFA) and
was its webmaster from 1996-2000. She has served on the editorial boards of the
Educational Administration Quarterly,
the American Educational Research Journal
and the Journal for Justice and Caring in
Education. She is past-president of
the Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance SIG at the American Educational
Research Association (AERA). She was a
Channel Scholar at Sohag University, Egypt in the Economics of Education. She
has been a US federal programs coordinator, a secondary school teacher, a tutor
at a community college and a state university, and a partner in a construction
company.
SELECTED
RESEARCH AND TECHNICAL REPORTS:
(2000). We can do better:
An essay on education finance and generational continuity in a globalizing
economy. Educational
Considerations 28 (1), 65-69.
(2000). Interagency
Consultation on Education in Situations of Emergency and Crisis: Final Report. Paris: United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
(2000). Interagency
Consultation on Secondary Education Reform and Youth Policy: Final Report.
Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO).
(2000). Global Information Networks in Education:
Final Report. Washington, DC: United States Agency for International
Development (USAID).
(2000, Winter). Information
quality impacts teacher quality: Global Information Networks in Education
(GINIE). The Quality Link, 3. Improving Educational Quality
Project. Washington, DC: United States Agency for International Development
(USAID).
(1999). Teaching-The
peculiar profession: A review essay. Educational Administration Quarterly,
4, 562-572.
(1999). The GINIE project:
Education during crisis and transition. TechKnowLogia, 2, 1-3
(1999, Summer). Development
and relief: Global Information Networks in Education (GINIE). The
Quality Link, 2. Improving Educational Quality Project.
Washington, DC: United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
(1999). A digital library
for education: The PEN-DOR project. with K. Fullerton, J. Greenberg, E.
Rasmussen and D. Stewart. The Electronic Library, 17(2), 75-82.
(1999, Spring). Global
Information Networks in Education (GINIE). The Quality Link, 3.
Improving Educational Quality Project. Washington, DC: United States Agency for
International Development (USAID).
(1998). The GINIE project: Responsible
neighbors: Many generations. In K. Westbrook (Ed.), American
Education Finance Association Yearbook (pp. 3-17). Thousand Oaks, CA:
Corwin Press.
(1998). The Global
Information Networks in Education Project (GINIE 1): Final report. Washington,
DC: USAID.
(1998). The new heroics of
generational commitment: Education in nations with chronic crises. with Emily
Vargas-Baron in Education
as a humanitarian response, G. Retamal and R. Aedo-Richmond,
eds. IBE/UNESCO: London: Cassell.
(1998). Has
an ox wandered by here lately? Learning Americanized Zen. In J. C. Singleton (Ed.), Learning
in likely places : Varieties of apprenticeship in Japan (Learning in doing).
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(1998). Teachers as school board members:
Democratic communities, professional associations and the generational trust. on-line hypertext monograph. Washington, DC:
The National Education Association (NEA).
Co-editor
with J. Lindle (1997). Mapping shifting schools and community Relationships in children's worlds:
Expertise vs. Responsiveness: Politics
of Education Yearbook.
London: Falmer Press. Hardback and paperback.
with S. Dizdar, K.
Fullerton, & M. K. Lin. (1997, June). Strategy for decentralized
professional networks for education in Bosnia and Herzegovina" Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina: UNICEF.
with
S. Dizdar (1996). Issue paper: Teacher education planning in complex conditions
of post-war decentralization. Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: World Bank.
(1996). "Higher
education finance final report: Phase II." Institutional Strengthening of National Academy for Educational
Administration, People's Republic of China. TA: 2282. Manila: Asian Development Bank .
with
J.L. Yeager and J.C. Weidman (1996). Higher education cost models and tuition
structures. Monograph included in An analysis of education cost
differentials for determining and modifying the tuition levels of colleges and
universities. Seoul, Korea:
Ministry of Education.
(1996).
"Beyond consensus: Mapping divergent views of systems and power in
collaboratives.” with B. A. Jones and E. Potter. in Coordination among schools, families, and
communities: Prospects for educational reform. J.
Cibulka and W. Kritek (Eds.). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
SELECTED
FUNDING:
2001 Principal Investigator. GINIE Project support for the Network on Education in Emergencies UNESCO and USAID. $105,000.
2001 Principal
Investigator. GINIE Project support for the Network on Education in
Emergencies. United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees.(UNHCR )$20,000.
2001 Principal
Investigator. GINIE Project support for the Secondary Education Reform and
Youth Policy Inter-agency Consultation Group. UNESCO and USAID. $50,000.
2000 Principal
Investigator. GINIE Project support for the Secondary Education Reform and
Youth Policy Inter-agency Consultation Group Website (http://ginie1.sched.pitt.edu/seryp/),
UNESCO and USAID. $35,000.
2000 Principal
Investigator. GINIE Project support for the Emergency Educational Assistance Inter-agency
Consultation Group Website (http://ginie1.sched.pitt.edu/eeau/).
UNESCO. and USAID $50,000.
2000 UNESCO/ Institute for Education, Hamburg, GINIE
partner in Internet-based decision support for youth programs in Kosovo
(UIE/Research Fellowships for GINIE team member, Mounzer Fatfat and
UIE/internship for Kristen Fenske)
1999 UNESCO/ Institute for Education, Hamburg USAID Internet-based decision support for Ministry of Education Youth and Sports/Sierra Leone (Secundment of UIE staff)
1998-2000
GINIE 2
(Global Information Networks in Education) Project (http://www.ginie.org/).
PI. USAID. $137,000.
1998-1999
Faculty
PI with Edie Rasmussen, School of Information Sciences. Pennsylvania Education Network Digitized
Object Repository PEN-DOR 2 Project Co-:. PA Department of Education/Link to
Learn. $432,000 ( www.pendor.org)
1995-1998
Global
Information Networks in Education Project GINIE 1.USAID. Director. $216,000.
Seth Spaulding, PI.
1997-1998
Faculty
Co-PI with Michael Bright and Edie Rasmussen, School of Information
Sciences. PEN-DOR (Pennsylvania
Education Network Digitized Object Repository) Project. PA Link to Learn. $150,000.
1996-1998
Principal Investigator. Teachers as school board
members: Democratic communities, professional associations and the generational
trust. National Education Association. $20,000.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL
CONSULTING
1998 UNESCO /Iraq Project
for computers and workforce transition
1997 UNESCO/
Bosnia and Herzegovina Project for transitional finance with cantonal and
federal ministries of education
1996 World
Bank/Bosnia and Herzegovina Project for participative planning for educational
renewal in planning, finance and technology
Asian Development Bank planning
project for the National Academy for Educational Administration, (PRC)