{"id":153104,"date":"2019-08-15T09:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=153104"},"modified":"2019-08-15T09:46:57","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:46:57","slug":"preston-green-named-john-maria-neag-professor-urban-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/08\/preston-green-named-john-maria-neag-professor-urban-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Preston Green Named John and Maria Neag Professor of Urban Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Preston Green III<\/a> was formally appointed yesterday as the John and Maria Neag Professor of Urban Education at UConn\u2019s Neag School of Education. A renowned expert in education law who joined the Neag School\u2019s Department of Educational Leadership in 2013<\/a>, Green also holdsa joint appointment in UConn\u2019s School of Law.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0addition\u00a0to disseminating his work via many high-caliber\u00a0scholarly\u00a0journals and five published books, Green has his research\u00a0cited\u00a0regularly in national publications\u00a0that include\u00a0The Washington Post,\u00a0Business\u00a0Insider, The Atlantic,\u00a0<\/em>and American\u00a0Prospect.\u00a0<\/em>He\u00a0also is consistently interviewed by and quoted in\u00a0a broad range of\u00a0prominent media outlets,\u00a0among them\u00a0The New\u00a0York Times, The Wall\u00a0Street Journal,\u00a0Chalkbeat, <\/em>and the\u00a0Boston Globe, <\/em>while also writing and co-writing original pieces for such outlets as The Conversation<\/em><\/a> and The Century Foundation<\/a>. Green, whose expertise centers on the areas in which education and law intersect, publishes and presents on the topics of charter schools, educational policy, and school choice. A 2017 paper he co-authored titled \u201cAre Charter Schools the Second Coming of Enron?<\/a>\u201d has led Green to become one of the go-to experts in the nation on the oversight of charter schools.<\/p>\n

At UConn, Green helped develop the\u00a0UConn Administrator Preparation Program in Law<\/a>,\u00a0which enables participants to obtain a law degree and school administrator certification at the same time. He also developed UConn\u2019s\u00a0School Law Online Graduate Certificate<\/a>, an online program that helps educators, administrators, and policymakers understand the legal dimension of K-12 education.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDr. Green serves as a leading, highly sought-after expert and speaker, a prolific and pioneering researcher, and an innovative faculty scholar.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Neag School Dean Gladis Kersaint<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Preston Green and Dean Gladis Kersaint attend the University meeting during which Green was formally appointed with his named professorship. (Photo courtesy of Sandra Chafouleas)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThanks to the support of our benefactors, the Neag School is very pleased to bestow this honor to Dr. Green for his exceptional ongoing work,\u201d says Dean Gladis Kersaint<\/a>. \u201cDr. Green serves as a leading, highly sought-after expert and speaker, a prolific and pioneering researcher, and an innovative faculty scholar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to his arrival at UConn, Green was the Harry Lawrence Batschelet II Chair Professor of Educational Administration at Penn State, where he was also a professor of education and law as well as the program coordinator of Penn State\u2019s educational leadership program. There, similar to his endeavors at UConn, he created Penn State\u2019s joint degree in law and education. He also ran a professional development program on educational law known as the Law and Education Institute at Penn State. From 1995 to 2003, he served in various roles at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.<\/p>\n

Green earned his J.D. and Ed.D. from Columbia University and completed his BA in government at the University of Virginia.<\/p>\n

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