Jim Carl

Jim Carl specializes in comparative history of education. He is dean of the Farrington College of Education at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, and he also taught at Cleveland State University and John Carroll University. Prior to graduate work at the University of Wisconsin, Carl was a high school social studies teacher. He also taught in a residential treatment center for troubled adolescents. Carl's articles, encyclopedia entries, book chapters, and book reviews focus on the history of urban education in the post World War II era and the nineteenth century origins of mass schooling in North America and Europe. He is author of _Freedom of Choice: Vouchers in American Education_ (2011). Currently, Carl is at work on a book on school choice, as part of a series that pairs historians and philosophers of education as they address contemporary issues in American education.