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John Bishop, Associate Professor of Human Resource Studies

Cornell University

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John H. Bishop is a member of the Department of Human Resource Studies at the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University. He is also Executive Director of the Educational Excellence Alliance, a consortium of 300 high schools in 5 Northeastern states that are studying ways to improve school climate and student engagement. He received his Bachelors Degree from Oberlin College in 1962. After two years in the Peace Corps in Northern Nigeria, he studied Economics at the University of Michigan, obtaining a Masters in 1967 and a PhD in 1974.

Professor Bishop has published numerous articles on education reform, the impact of the quality of education on the productivity of individuals and nations, the impact of the hiring, training and promotion policies of business on incentives for students to study and schools to set high standards, the determinants of and payoffs to employer training and the effectiveness of institutions which match workers and jobs. Bishop has a Ph.D.from University of Michigan.

Papers on the AGI website:

2006	A Neo-Darwinian Rational-Choice Theory of Academic Engagement Norms: The Struggle for Popularity and Normative Hegemony in Secondary Schools

Video presentations on the AGI website:

June 2006

Oppositional Cultures among White Students: The Quest for Popularity and Normative Hegemony in America