Ethan Hutt

Overview

Ethan Hutt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland. Ethan s research focuses on the historical relationship between schools the law and education policy. In particular his research examines the way in which the law has defined the purpose organization and success of public education in America through the creation of standards and the use of quantification. He is currently working on a book manuscript based on his dissertation entitled Certain Standards How Efforts to Establish and Enforce Minimum Educational Standards Transformed American Schooling (1870 1980) places the current standards based accountability movement in historical perspective by understanding it as the latest in a century long effort to define the appropriate outcomes of public education. In addition to his dissertation work Ethan has published articles on the legal implications of Value Added Models for administrators and teachers and on accountability in a global context.