Ernest R. House is an American academic specializing in program evaluation and education policy. E. R. House résumé He has been a professor emeritus of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2002. House was a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1985 to 2001. Before that, he was a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1969 to 1985. He has been a visiting scholar at UCLA, Harvard, University of New Mexico, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1999–2000), and also in England, Australia, Spain, Sweden, Austria, and Chile.
With Ronald Wooldridge, he was editor-in-chief of the journal New Directions for Program Evaluation (the journal of the Evaluation Research Society) from 1982 to 1985.
Education House graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a bachelor's degree in English in 1959. He earned a master's degree in secondary education from Southern Illinois University in 1964, and completed a doctorate (Ed.D.) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1968.
Awards and honors Phi Beta Kappa Ford Foundation Fellow (England), 1975. Harold E. Lasswell Prize (with William Madura) presented by Policy Sciences (1989). Paul Lazarsfeld Award for Evaluation Theory, for lifetime contributions to evaluation research and theory, awarded by, American Evaluation Association Award Recipients 1990. Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA, 1999–2000
Books The Politics of Educational Innovation (1974) Survival in the Classroom (with S. Lapan, 1978)Reviews of Survival in the Classroom: Harry Hutson, ; Meredith Damien Gall, ; Penelope L. Peterson and Barbara B. Levin, Evaluating with Validity (1980, re-issued 2010)Reviews of Evaluating with Validity: David A. Kenny, ; Gene V. Glass, David A. Kenny, and Paul M. Wortman, ; Michael J. Parsons, Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Charisma: The Rise and Fall of the Push/Excel Program (1988)Reviews of Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Charisma: Aldon Morris, ; Dorothy Willner, ; Dianne M. Pinderhughes, ; Ronald W. Walters, ; Jerry Mitchell, Professional Evaluation: Social Impact and Political Consequences (1993)Reviews of Professional Evaluation: Social Impact and Political Consequences: P. K. Jamison, ; Bulletin of Sociological Methodology, Schools for Sale: Why Free Market Policies Won't Improve America's Schools, and What Will (1998)Reviews of Schools for Sale: Dan D. Goldhaber, ; David Stevenson, , ; Henry M. Levin, Values in Evaluation and Social Research (with K. Howe, 1999)Reviews of Values in Evaluation and Social Research: Sheila A. Arens and Thomas A. Schwandt, ; Harry Torrance, Regression to the Mean: A Novel of Evaluation Politics (2007)Review of Regression to the Mean: Darrel N. Caulley Cherry Street Alley (2015) Evaluating: Values, Biases, and Practical Wisdom (2014)
References
External links House's Acquired Wisdom essay in Education Review House's Author's page at the National Education Policy Center
An Archive of Some of Ernest R. Houses's writings