USM’s Ken Jones Receives Fulbright to Research Educational Reform in India
May 20, 2010
Fulbright Scholar Ken Jones
Westbrook resident Ken Jones, associate professor of teacher education at the University of Southern Maine, has been named a Fulbright Scholar and will be working at Lady Shri Ram College for Women in New Delhi. He will be studying the impact of educational reforms on girls in India. He will be there from mid-August through mid-December, 2010.
Jones has been teaching at USM since 2002. His professional work in education has focused on teacher development, mathematics, education, classroom assessment, and school accountability. He has been a middle school teacher, director of a school-university partnership, and a school district mathematics specialist. He also works with other faculty at USM to continuously invent new ways of improving the teacher education program. His publications include “Democratic School Accountability: A School Improvement Model” (2006, Rowman & Littlefield); “Accountability, Assessment, and Teacher Commitment: Lessons from the Kentucky’s Reform Effort” with Betty Lou Whitford (SUNY Press, 2000); and a number of journal articles and book chapters on the nature and effects of high states student testing. He was also co-author of a K-8 mathematics textbook series, “Math in My World” 1998, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill Company).
The Fulbright Program, America’s flagship international educational exchange program, is sponsored by the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Since its inception, the Fulbright Program has exchanged approximately 294,000 people chosen for their leadership potential, with the opportunity to observe each others’ political, economic and cultural institutions, exchange ideas, and embark on joint ventures of importance to the general welfare of the world’s inhabitants. Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. For more than 4 years, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has supported programs that seek to promote mutual understanding and respect between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
