Willis D. Hawley is Professor of Education and Public Affairs at the Univer-sity of Maryland, where he served as Dean of the College of Education from 1993 to 1998. He taught at Yale, Duke, and Vanderbilt universities before going to Maryland. He has published numerous books, articles, and book chapters dealing with teacher education, school reform, urban politics, po-litical learning, organizational change, school desegregation, and educa-tional policy. His most recent research deals with the professional develop-ment of teachers, the education of teachers (in the United States and Japan), sc...