Bishop, John H., Research Materials, 0000-2999
Collection Number: /4353
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
John H. Bishop Research Materials, 0000-2999
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
/4353
Creator:
Bishop, John H.
Quanitities:
13 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
Prior to coming to Cornell in 1986, John was director of the Center for Research
on Youth Employability and Associate Director: Research at the National Center for
Research in Vocational Education. He has served on numerous advisory committees: the
Job Training Partnership Experiment Advisory Committee, the Advisory Panel for the
Office of Technology Assessment's study Training in the Workplace, Advisory Committee
on Federal Workforce Quality Assessment, and Education Committee of the Competitiveness
Policy Council. He chaired the Admissions and Incentives Subcommittee of the SUNY
Task Group on Public Education and Co-chaired the Goal 5 Technical Planning Subgroup
on International Workforce Skills of the National Education Goals Panel. He has testified
before Congressional Committees numerous times--most recently on February 2, 1995
before the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts and Humanities chaired by Senator
Jeffords.
(Biography taken from Cornell University web page: https://works.bepress.com/john_bishop/.
Accessed October 04, 2018.)
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John H. Bishop Research Materials #/4353. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Bishop, John H.
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