Paul Manna

Assistant Professor, Department of Government, College of William and Mary

Jamestown Road, 10 Morton Hall, PO Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187
email: pmanna@wm.edu / phone: 757-221-3024 / fax: 757-221-1868

Welcome. I'm an assistant professor in the Department of Government at William and Mary, where I'm also affiliated with the Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy. I'm interested in American politics, public policy, federalism, and applied research methods.  My work focuses primarily on education policy and politics. Here's my vita.

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Current and recent teaching

Spring 2008
GOVT 351 Intro to Public Administration
GOVT 496 Honors Seminar in Government

Fall 2007
GOVT 455 Education Policy and Politics in the U.S.
GOVT 495 Honors Seminar in Government
PUBP 602 Quantitative Methods I

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Research

Book

Paul Manna. 2006. School's In: Federalism and the National Education Agenda. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. Part I. Review in Perspectives on Politics, March 2007. Review in Political Science Quarterly, Spring 2007. Review in Education Next, Spring 2007. Review in Teachers College Record, November 2006.

Peer-reviewed articles

John J. Coleman and Paul Manna. 2007. Above the fray? The use of party system references in presidential rhetoric. Presidential Studies Quarterly. 37(3): 399-426.

Arnold F. Shober, Paul Manna, and John F. Witte. 2006. Flexibility meets accountability: State charter school laws and their influence on the formation of charter schools in the United States. Policy Studies Journal 34(4): 563-587.

Paul Manna. 2006. Control, persuasion, and educational accountability: Implementing the No Child Left Behind Act. Educational Policy 20(3): 471-494.

Sally Roever and Paul Manna. 2005. Could you explain my grade? The administrative and pedagogical virtues of grading sheets. PS: Political Science and Politics 39(2): 317-320.

Paul F. Manna. 2002. The signals parents send when they choose their children's schools. Educational Policy 16(3): 425-447.

John J. Coleman and Paul F. Manna. 2000. Congressional campaign spending and the quality of democracy. Journal of Politics 62(3): 757-789.

Paul F. Manna. 2000. How do I know what I say I know? Thinking about Slim's Table and qualitative research design. Endarch: Journal of Black Political Research, Spring: 19-29.

Book chapters

Paul Manna and Michael J. Petrilli. 2008. Double standard? "Scientifically based reasearch" and the No Child Left Behind Act. In Frederick M. Hess (ed.) When Research Matters: How Scholarship Influences Education Policy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Paul Manna. 2007. NCLB in the states: Fragmented governance, uneven implementation. In Frederick M. Hess and Chester E. Finn, Jr. (eds.) No Remedy Left Behind: Lessons from a Half-Decade of NCLB. Washington, DC: AEI Press.

Paul Manna. 2006. Teachers unions and No Child Left Behind. In Jane Hannaway and Andrew J. Rotherham (eds) Collective Bargaining in Education: Negotiating Change in Today's Schools. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.

Paul Manna. 2004. Leaving no child behind. In Christopher T. Cross, Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age. New York: Teachers College Press.

Paul Manna. 2002. Issue Briefs on "Education" and "Economy, budget, and taxes." In The Reporter's Source Book: 2002 Election Edition. Philipsburg, MT: Project Vote Smart.

Other publications

Paul Manna. 2007. Starting Fresh in Low-Performing Schools: Empowering Teachers. Chicago: National Association of Charter School Authorizers.

Paul Manna. 2007. The Great Society in education: A persistent national consensus? Review of Gareth Davies, See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan (University Press of Kansas, 2007). The Forum 5(3): on-line.

Paul Manna. 2007. Review of The Era of Education: The Presidents and the Schools 1965-2001, by Lawrence J. McAndrews (University of Illinois Press, 2006). Presidential Studies Quarterly 37(2): 372-373.

Paul Manna. 2007. Review of No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2001, by Patrick J. McGuinn (University Press of Kansas, 2006). Political Science Quarterly 122(1): 176-177.

Paul Manna. 2006. Review of Government Matters: Welfare Reform in Wisconsin, by Lawrence Mead (Princeton University Press, 2004). Governance 19(4): 682-684.

Paul Manna and Teresa Gorbett. 2005. We are all accounable. Virginia Gazette. October 5, 20A.

Paul Manna. 2005. States set school standards. Virginia Gazette. July 9, 18A.

Paul Manna. 2003. Student strike or activism lite? Badger Herald. March 3, 6.

Paul Manna. 2002. Charities not limitless. Capital Times. March 11, 6A.

John J. Coleman and Paul F. Manna. 1999. Study shows campaign spending is a silver lining in the fund-raising cloud. Wisconsin State Journal. October 31, p. 3B.

Paul F. Manna. 2001. Researcher's notes. Data Program and Library Service (DPLS) News. February.

Wendy Houlihan, Cathy Annelin, Nancy Ayres, Foy Baillie, and Paul Manna. 1996. Interdisciplinary Core Program at the Traverse City Senior High. Proceedings of the Third Annual Model Schools Conference. Schenectady, NY: International Center for Leadership in Education.

Recent conference papers and presentations

Paul Manna and Amanda Guthrie. 2008. Leadership continuity and educational performance in the American states. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago.

Paul Manna and K.C. Tydgat. 2008. Gatekeepers to the classroom: The influence of state teacher standards boards on state teacher policy. Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans.

Paul Manna and Anneliese Dickman. 2006. Parent feedback and the behavior of private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. Presented at the 28th Annual Research Conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management,  Madison, WI, November.

Paul Manna. 2006.  How governance of K-12 education influences policy outputs and student outcomes in the United States.  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, September.

Paul Manna. 2006. Conductor, schoolmarm, or struggling substitute teacher? Explaining the changing federal role in education. Presented at the Policy History Conference, Charlottesville, VA, June.

Paul Manna and Diane O'Hara. 2005. State governance and educational outcomes in the United States. Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April.

Paul Manna. 2004. State governance, policy, and education performance in the United States. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September.

Paul Manna. 2004. Management, control, and the challenge of leaving no child behind. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April. Full results.

Grading sheets examples

American politics examples

• Short paper from a graduate public management class. Assignment. Grading sheet.Short paper from an undergraduate public policy class. Assignment. Grading sheet.Midterm exam from an undergraduate public administration class. Exam. Grading sheet.
• Short case assignment from an undergraduate public administration class. Case assignment. Grading sheet.

Comparative politics examples

• Midterm exam from an undergraduate introduction to comparative politics class. Grading sheet.Short paper from an undergraduate introduction to comparative politics class. Assignment. Grading sheet.
• Literature review from an undergraduate seminar on comparative politics. Assignment. Grading sheet.