David Labaree started this fall as a professor in the School of Education at Stanford University. Previously, he taught for 18 years in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University, where he directed the doctoral program and the Spencer Research Training Grant program. He received his Ph.D. in sociology in 1983 from the University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on the historical sociology of American education, with an emphasis on the role of markets in shaping education and the peculiar nature of education schools. He has published two books: The Making of an American High School (1988), which won the outstanding book awards from the American Educational Research Association and History of Education Society in 1989, and How to Succeed in School Without Really Learning (1997). His new book, The Trouble with Ed Schools, is scheduled for publication by Yale in 2004. He is the vice president for Division F (history of education) of the American Educational Research Association, and he has been elected vice president of the History of Education Society for 2004 and president for 2005.