Rick Mintrop

University of California, Berkeley

Rick Mintrop received his PhD from Stanford University in Education and an MA from Freie Universität, Berlin, in Political Science and German Studies. He is the faculty director of the doctoral program in Leadership for Educational Equity at UC Berkeley. His recent work is divided between research on teacher work motivation, incentives, and accountability, and a conception of design-based school improvement. Relevant to these topics, he has published two books Schools on Probation (2004) and Design-based School Improvement (2016) and numerous articles. He is currently the principal investigator of a school improvement study funded by the Chilean Ministry of Education and of a research-practice partnership with a local school district in Northern California funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

NEPC Publications

Education Interview of the Month: Greg Smith Interviews Rick Mintrop and Miguel Órdenes on School Privatization in Chile

What Might Happen If School Vouchers and Privatization of Schools Were to Become Universal in the U.S.: Learning from a National Test Case—Chile

School Closure as a Strategy to Remedy Low Performance