Maris A. Vinovskis is an American academic and historian at the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is a public research university located in Ann Arbor, Michigan in the United States. It is the state's oldest university and the flagship campus of the University of Michigan...

 and a leading authority on U.S. social and family history. He is the A. M. and H. P. Bentley Professor of History and a Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Vinovskis acts as a Senior Research Scientist in the Institute of Social Research. He is a former chairman of the Department of History.

Vinovskis holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

. He has received a Guggenheim fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." Each year, the foundation makes...

 and was elected to the National Academy of Education, the International Academy of Education, and President of the History of Education Society.

In 1978, Vinovskis was the Deputy Staff Director to the U.S. House Select Committee on Population and served as a consultant on population and adolescent pregnancy issues in the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare in the early 1980s. During both the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

 administrations, he worked as a Research Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) on questions of educational research and policy. Vinovskis was a member of the congressionally mandated Independent Review Panels for Goals 2000

Goals 2000

The National educational Goals were set by the U.S. Congress in the 1990s to set goals for standards-based education reform. Many of these goals were based on the principles of outcomes-based education, and not all of the goals were attained by the year 2000 as was intended...

 and No Child Left Behind.

Publications

• The Origins of Public High Schools (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985)
• An "Epidemic" of Adolescent Pregnancy? (Oxford University Press, 1988)
• Education, Society and Economic Opportunity" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995)
• History and Educational Policymaking (Yale University Press, 1999)
• Revitalizing Federal Education Research(University of Michigan Press, 2001)
• The Birth of Head Start (University of Chicago Press, 2005)
• From a Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind (Teachers College Press, 2009).

External links

• Vinovskis/University of Michigan