James mcpartland biography

James M. McPartland, long-serving former director of the Center for Social Organization of Schools at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education and a key figure in the development of the landmark 1966 Equality of Educational Opportunity Report—better known as the Coleman Report—died on Jan.

28. He was 84.

A statistician by training and an education researcher, McPartland worked closely with James Coleman on the Coleman Report, which underpins the modern, evidence-based approach to improving education.

The Hub wrote about the Coleman Report at 50 years—and McPartland's role in shaping it—in 2016:

"Can you move to Washington tomorrow?"

This abrupt inquiry was posed one day in 1965 to James McPartland, then a graduate student at Johns H