Patricia Lines
Patricia M. Lines (J.D., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., Catholic University of America) is a free-lance writer and a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute in Seattle. As a visiting professor, she held the Haynes Chair in Education Policy at Catholic University of America. She also served on the faculties at the University of Washington and Harvard University.
In 1999 she left the National Institute on Student Achievement, Curriculum and Assessment, in the U.S. Department of Education (ED), where she was a senior research analyst. In this capacity, she had initiated and managed ED's charter-school research program from its inception in 1995 until late 1999. She also monitored and conducted research on issues relating to the role of families in learning, educational choice, and related policy issues.
Other past positions include that of director of the Law and Education Center at the Education Commission of the States (ECS) where she worked extensively with state education officials. In her earlier career, she practiced law with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Center for Law and Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Her work focuses on equity and law, desegregation, student rights, school choice, private education, homeschooling, decentralization, and related topics. This work appears in the Public Interest, Humanitas, Peabody Education Journal, Ripon Forum, Phi Delta Kappan, Educational Studies, Journal of Law and Education, Loyola Law Review, Journal of College and University Law, Texas Law Review, Family Law Journal, Metropolitan Review, Equity and Choice, Inequality, Education Leadership, and other periodicals. Approximately two dozen of her articles or working papers have been republished in anthologies or as monographs. One has been the subject of a published debate.
Linda Lumsden
Linda Lumsden is associate editor and writer for the ERIC Clearinghouse on Educational Management at the University of Oregon.
