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About Professor Hughes |
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Over the
past thirty years, PROFESSOR JONATHAN T. HUGHES has been a mathematics
teacher, department chair, director of management information systems,
IBM system 34/36 programmer, assistant superintendent for personnel,
finance and administration and university professor in several public
and private educational settings in Massachusetts, New Jersey,
Connecticut and New York. He was an Associate Professor of Management
Science at Teachers College, Columbia University and Professor and
Department Coordinator in the Department of Educational Leadership and
Technology at Dowling College, where he helped develop and chair the
college's first doctoral program in Educational Administration. In
2001, Dr. Hughes was invited to develop a new data and technology
driven doctoral program in Educational Leadership at
St. John's
University's Eastern Long Island Campus in Oakdale, New York, where he
currently serves as Professor and Director for the Center for
Educational Leadership and Accountability.
He is a nationally known speaker and lecturer on
technology and data analysis issues and he has a rich background in
the educational, financial and strategic planning components of
school operations. He also concentrates on using technology to help
create a strong public image for institutions through data analysis
and presentation.
Professor Hughes has written
extensively about school district management, planning and governance
issues. He is author of
The Multimedia Administrator
(Cummings and Hathaway, 1997), the primary author of
Understanding Educational
Planning
(Connolly-Cormack, 1997) and Multimedia Budget
Presentations
(International Association of School Business Officials Press, 1998)
and the co-author of Boards
at Their Best
(Connolly-Cormack, 1995), all of which concentrate on merging new
analytical skills with new technologies for both the current and
future generation of educational leaders. He completed a book on
resource sharing among school districts entitled
From Cooperation to
Collaboration
(Cummings and Hathaway, 1999) based upon a number of state funded
school district efficiency studies he conducted in New York State and served as a contributing author
and computer programmer for
Chasing the American Dream (The NYC Community Service Society and the NY
Conference of the NAACP, 1981).
Dr. Hughes' current
research interests focus on urban
school districts and minority achievement gaps.
Using data gathered over a six year period and funded by the Marie and
John Zimmermann Foundation, he serves as lead researcher and co-author
of
Mentoring for Success
(Zimmermann, 2006), which is an on-going examination of the
educational implications of implementing an academic mentoring model
for urban middle school youth. Yale University,
Wheelock College,
Trinity College, and
Sacred Heart University serve as the sites for
this research effort. He is also the
Senior Researcher for the New York State School Board Association
where, funded by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, Dr. Hughes
has worked on the Small City School Districts Project with the 57 city school districts
across New York State on data-driven
decision making and executive information.
Given his strong commitment to
schools and data, Dr. Hughes has recently
completed the sixth printing of the School District Almanac's
Data Points
(2008), published annually across New York State for
about 400 school districts. The extensive database he has
developed is intended to help provide educational decision-makers with
an immediate and timely database of financial, instructional,
achievement, and demographic data for decisions and planning. He
recently published School District
Vital Signs
(2008) and
The Budget Pulse
(2008), both summary derivatives of a growing family of products from
the School District Almanac database. He is currently
working on his latest book on data decision-making entitled "Data
Matters", due next year.
Dr. Hughes
is also the author of a number of published articles on school
district management techniques including “Building new knowledge for
school quality improvement”;, “Decision mapping leads to decision
making”; “The Digital Business Administrator”; “Using benchmarking to
analyze maintenance and operations efficiency”; “Getting to the
handshake: A partnership primer”; “Multimedia school budget
presentations”; “Using geographic information systems for
administrative decision making”; “Multimedia caveats”; “The
Administratively effective school district”; “Geographic information
systems for the 21st century business office”, "The Digital
Administrator for the New Age" and "The School Board Member as a
Professional".
Professor
Hughes has been a lead researcher and consultant for a number of
international, national and regional school systems and educational
organizations including The British Patana School (Bangkok,Thailand),The
Futures School (Cairo, Egypt), The International School ( Panama), The
Baldwin School (Puerto Rico), The Caribbean Preparatory School(St.
Thomas), Dallas(TX), San Francisco(CA), Nazareth(PA), Saucon Valley(PA),
Summit(NJ), Westfield(NJ), Paterson(NJ), Pearl River(NY), Nyack(NY),
Clarkstown(NY), South Orangetown(NY) and Nanuet(NY), and over fifty
other school districts on Long Island(NY), in New Jersey and in
Connecticut.
Dr.
Hughes earned his bachelors degree (B.A.) in mathematics from
Ithaca
College, a masters in mathematics education (M.A.T.) from
Harvard
University and his M.Phil., M.Ed., and Ph.D. from
Columbia University.
Full Vita
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