W. Norton Grubb is David Gardiner Chair in Higher Education in the department of Policy, Organization, Measurement and Evaluation at the University of California at Berkeley, Graduate School of Education. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Grubb's research spans the role of schooling in labor markets, the flow of students into and through postsecondary education, the interactions among education and training programs, community colleges, and the institutional effects on teaching and social policy toward children and youth. In addition to his research, he spends a good deal of time with secondary and community college instructors and administrators, presenting different approaches to curriculum reform. He is also a site director for the National Center for Research in Vocational Education, which has supported some of his research on education and job training programs. Recent books include Learning to Work: The Case for Reintegrating Education and Job Training (1996), and Working in the Middle: Strengthening Education and the Training for the Mid-Skilled Labor Force (1996). He edited Education Through Occupations in American High Schools (1995), a two-volume work on the integration of academic and vocational education. He is also the author of Broken Promises: How Americans Fail Their Children (with M. Lazerson, 1988), a theoretical and historical analysis of the public treatment of children and youth; and Education and Vocationalism: Documents in Vocational Education, 1870-1970 (with M. Lazerson, 1974), a history of the movement for vocational education. He is currently working on books about the nature of teaching in community colleges, and the relationship between schooling and employment.