Martha Abele Mac Iver
Center for Social Organization of Schools
Johns Hopkins University
3003 N. Charles Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21218
Phone: (410) 516-8256
Fax: (410) 516-8890
Email: mmaciver@csos.jhu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Michigan, December 1984.
M.A., Political Science, University of Michigan, May 1982.
B.A., with high honor, Michigan State University, June 1977.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1/98 -- Associate Research Scientist, Center for Social Organization of Schools, Johns Hopkins University. Current research focuses on the effects of elementary whole school reform efforts, school-to-work high school programs, and systemic issues in school reform.

1/96 - 1/98 Senior Evaluation Specialist, Office of Employment Development, City of Baltimore. Responsible for evaluation of School-to-Career programs, including Career Academies funded by federal Urban Rural School to Work Transitions Grant, programs under Youth Fair Chance grant, HOYAS program at Frederick Douglass H.S., and others. Responsible for design of evaluation plans, data collection (conducting surveys, in-depth interviews, and focus groups, and collection of published aggregate level data), data analysis, writing and presentation of reports.

9/89 - 1/96 Social Science Analyst (GS13), Office of Research, United States Information Agency, Washington, D.C. Responsible for directing public opinion research projects in Europe (western and eastern) for U.S. Government (soliciting bids from European public opinion research firms, questionnaire construction and translation, data management, data analysis, writing reports).

9/85-8/89 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA. Courses taught included Introduction to Comparative Politics, Western European Politics, Research Methods in Political Science, Seminar on the Northern Ireland problem, Senior Seminar on War and Peace, European Culture (interdisciplinary team taught course), and Seminar on Public Policy.

3/84-8/85 Research Associate, Inter University Consortium for Political and Social Research, Center for Political Studies, University of Michigan. Responsible for overseeing research assistants in processing political science datasets (including the 1984 American National Election Study, Euro barometers, United Nations roll call votes, and others) for release to the academic community, for constructing various political datasets, and for conducting data analysis.

9/84-12/84 Adjunct Lecturer, Early Political Theory, University of Michigan Dearborn.

2/83-6/83 Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan.

9/79-8/82 Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Political Theory and Introduction to Comparative Politics, University of Michigan, and for Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis, Inter University Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program.

10/77-7/78 Assistant Editor for Contemporary Authors, Gale Research Company, Detroit, Michigan.

1/76-6/76 English Teaching Assistant at C.E.S. Pasteur (French secondary school), Tours, France (employed by French Ministry of Education).

PUBLICATIONS

Mac Iver, M.& Farley, E. (In press, 2005) Preparing urban students for health careers: A longitudinal study of a university-high school partnership. Urban Education 40(2).

Mac Iver, M., & Farley, E. (2003). Bringing the district back in: The role of the central office in improving instruction and student achievement. CRESPAR Report #65. Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC: Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk.

Mac Iver, M., Kemper, E., & Stringfield, S. (2003). The Baltimore Curriculum Project: Final report of a four-year evaluation study. CRESPAR Report #62. Baltimore, MD and Washington, DC: Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk.

Mac Iver, M. & Kemper, E (in press) Joining Direct Instruction and Core Knowledge for whole-school reform: Implementation and impact of the Baltimore Curriculum Project. Educational Administration Quarterly.

Mac Iver, M. & Legters, N. (2002) Partnerships for career-centered high school reform in an urban school system. Journal of Vocational Education Research 26(3).

Mac Iver, M. & Kemper, E. (2002) Guest editors' introduction: Research on Direct Instruction in reading. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk 7(2).

Mac Iver, M. & Kemper, E. (2002) The Impact of Direct Instruction on elementary students' reading achievement in an urban school district." Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk 7(2).

Mac Iver, M. (2000). Seeking justice in educational opportunity: An analysis of the evidence on school vouchers and children placed at risk. Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk 5(4).

Mac Iver, M. & Stringfield, S. (2000). Privatized delivery of instructional services for urban public school students placed at risk. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Winter.

MacIver, M., Stringfield, S., & McHugh, B. (2000). Core Knowledge curriculum: Five-year analysis of implementation and effects in five Maryland schools. CRESPAR Report #50. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk.

Mac Iver, D., Mac Iver, M., Balfanz, R., Plank, S., & Ruby, A. (2000). Talent Development Middle Schools: Blueprint and Results for a Comprehensive Whole-School Reform Model. In M. Sanders (Ed.), Schooling Students Placed at Risk: Research, Policy, and Practice in the Education of Poor and Minority Adolescents. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Borman, G.D., Rachuba, L., Datnow, A., Alberg, M., MacIver, M., Stringfield, S., & Ross, S. (2000). Four models of school improvement: Successes and challenges in reforming low-performing, high-poverty Title I schools. CRESPAR Report #48. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University, Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk.

Mary McIntosh, Martha Abele Mac Iver, Daniel G. Abele, and David B. Nolle, "Minority Rights and Majority Rule: Ethnic Tolerance in Romania and Bulgaria, " Social Forces, March 1995.

Mary McIntosh, Martha Abele Mac Iver, Daniel G. Abele, and Dina Smeltz, "Market Democracy in Central and East Europe, 1991-1993," Slavic Review, Summer 1994.

Mary McIntosh and Martha Abele Mac Iver, "Transition to What? Publics Confront Change in Central and Eastern Europe." East European Studies Occasional Paper, The Woodrow Wilson Center, August 1993.

Mary McIntosh and Martha Abele Mac Iver, "Coping with Freedom and Uncertainty: Public Opinion in Hungary, Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1989-92," International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Fall 1992.

Elisabeth Crighton and Martha Abele Mac Iver, "The Evolution of Protracted Ethnic Conflict: Group Dominance and Political Underdevelopment in Northern Ireland and Lebanon," Comparative Politics, January 1991.

Martha Abele Mac Iver and Emily Bauermeister, "Bridging the Religious Divide: Mobilization for Reconciliation in Northern Ireland," Review of Religious Research, December 1990.

Martha Abele Mac Iver, "Mirror Images? Conceptions of God and Political Duty on the Left and Right of the Evangelical Spectrum," Sociological Analysis, Summer 1990.

Martha Abele Mac Iver, "Religious Politicization Among Western European Mass Publics." In William H. Swatos, Jr., ed., Religious Politics in Global and Comparative Perspective. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.

Martha Abele Mac Iver, "A Clash of Symbols in Northern Ireland: Divisions Between Extremist and Moderate Protestant Elites," Review of Religious Research, June 1989.

Martha Abele Mac Iver, "Ian Paisley and the Reformed Tradition," Political Studies, September 1987.

BOOK REVIEWS

Mac Iver, M. Review of Privatizing Education: Can the Marketplace Deliver Choice, Efficiency, Equity, and Social Cohesion? Edited by Henry M. Levin, Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. Forthcoming in Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk 8(1).

MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW

Mac Iver, M. Systemic supports for comprehensive school reform: The "institutionalization" of Direct Instruction in the Baltimore City Public School System. Under review at Educational Administration Quarterly.

Mac Iver, M. & Farley, E. Bringing the district back in: The role of the central office in improving instruction and student achievement. Under review at Review of Educational Research.

OTHER CSOS EVALUATION REPORTS
List provided upon request.

USIA REPORTS
Author of more than 100 government reports on public opinion in Europe, 1989-95. List provided upon request.

PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

Choi, R. & Mac Iver, M. On faith-based community development "going public": Case studies from Baltimore. Presented at Bethel College, St. Paul, MN, June 2003.

Mac Iver, M., Farley, E., & Wayman, J. Let a thousand flowers bloom: High school reform in Baltimore. Presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April 2003.

Mac Iver, M. Systemic supports for comprehensive school reform: The "institutionalization" of Direct Instruction in the Baltimore City Public School System. Presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, April 2003.

Mac Iver, M. & Amoa, M. Partnering for educational progress in the inner city: A high school-university partnership to promote health careers preparation. Presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 2002.

Mac Iver, M. & Legters, N. "Partnerships for Career-Centered Educational Reform at the High School Level: The Intersection of Multiple School-to-Work Models in One Urban School System," presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, April 2001.

Mac Iver, M. & Kemper, E. "Reforming from the Outside In: Attempting to Institutionalize a Combination of Direct Instruction and Core Knowledge as a Whole-School Reform in an Urban School District," presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, April 2001.

Mac Iver, M., Kemper, E., & Stringfield, S. "Joining Direct Instruction and Core Knowledge for Whole School Reform: Implementation and Impact of the Baltimore Curriculum Project," presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 2000.

Mac Iver, M. "The Politics of Privatization in Urban School Systems: The Case of Baltimore," presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Montreal, September 1999.

Mac Iver, M. "Seeking Justice in Educational Opportunity: An Analysis of the Evidence on School Vouchers and Disadvantaged Children," presented at Calvin College, June 1999.

Mac Iver, M., Stringfield, S., Rafferty, E., & Stevenson, Z. "The Impact of Sylvan Instruction on Urban Students Placed at Risk: Evaluation of a Privatization Experiment," presented at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, April 1999.

Mac Iver, M., "The Christian in the Political Arena: Reflections on the Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr," presented at Furman University, Greenville, S.C., June 1997.

McIntosh, M. & Mac Iver, M. "The Structure of Foreign Policy Attitudes in East and West Europe: Does the American Model Apply?," presented at the annual meetings of the International Studies Association, March 1994.

McIntosh, M., Abele, D. & Mac Iver, M. "The Dynamics of Nationalism among East and West European West Publics," presented at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1993.

McIntosh, M. & Mac Iver, M. "Building Democracy and Capitalism in Central and East Europe: The Micro-Level Linkages," presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological Association, Miami Beach, FL, August 1993.

McIntosh, M., Mac Iver, M., Dobson, R. & Grant, S. "The Meaning of Democracy in a Redefined Europe," presented at the annual meetings of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, St. Charles, Illinois, May 1993.

McIntosh, M., Mac Iver, M., Abele, D., & Nolle, D. "Minority Rights and Majority Rule: Ethnic Tolerance in Romania and Bulgaria," presented at the meetings of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 1992.

Mac Iver, M. "A Christian Rainbow Coalition? Liberation Theology and Marginalized Americans," presented at the meetings of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, Washington, D.C., August 1990.

Mac Iver, M. & Crighton, E. "Testing a Theory of Protracted Conflict," presented at the meetings of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, September 1989.

Crighton, E. & Mac Iver, M. "A Theory of Protracted Conflict: Comparing Northern Ireland and Lebanon," presented at the meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1988.

Mac Iver, M. "Mirror Images? Conceptions of God and Political Duty on the Left and Right of the Political Spectrum," presented at the meetings of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 1988.

Mac Iver, M. & Bauermeister, E. "Bridging the Religious Divide: Mobilization for Reconciliation in Northern Ireland," presented at the International Political Science Association World Congress, Washington, D.C., August 1988.

Mac Iver, M. "A Clash of Symbols in Northern Ireland: Moderate and Extremist Protestant Elites," presented at the Western Political Science Association Convention, Anaheim, March 1987 and at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Convention, Louisville, October 1987.

Mac Iver, M. "Integrating Faith and Politics in Western Europe: The Influence of Religious Convictions on Political Attitudes," presented at the American Political Science Association Convention, Washington D.C., September, 1986.

Mac Iver, M. "Bridging the Religious Divide in Northern Ireland," an invited address in the "Religions at War" lecture series at Mira Costa College, March, 1986.

Mac Iver, M. "Militant Protestantism in Northern Ireland: Ian Paisley and the Apocalyptic Tradition," presented at the Western Conference on British Studies, San Antonio, TX, 1985.

Mac Iver, M. "Ian Paisley and the Reformed Tradition," presented at the American Political Science Association Convention, Washington, D.C., 1984.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Associate Editor, Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk, 2002 to present.

Reviewer for Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and National Research Center for Career and Technical Education.

Discussant for panel on "Political Theory and the Bible" at the conference of Christians in Political Science, Furman University, Greenville, S.C., June 1997.

Discussant for panel on "Contemporary Religion and Political Inquiry," American Political Science Association Convention, Atlanta, August 1989.

Discussant for panel on "The Northern Ireland Problem," Western Political Science Association Convention, San Francisco, March 1988.

Participant in Roundtable Panel on "The 1984 Election in Comparative Perspective," American Political Science Association Convention, New Orleans, August 1985.

SPECIAL SKILLS
Extensive training in multivariate data analysis. Fluency in French, reading knowledge of Spanish.

HONORS AND AWARDS
MacArthur Foundation Fellowship from Occidental College, 1988.
American Political Science Association Research Grant, 1986-87.
Haynes Foundation Summer Fellowship, 1986.
Rackham Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1983-84.
Rackham Dissertation Grant, University of Michigan, 1982.
H. B. Earhart Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1980-81.
First-Year Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1978-79.