Rate My Professor Robert Maranto

Robert Maranto is Professor and Twenty-First Century Chair in Leadership in the Department of Education Reform, College of Education and Health Professions, at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. He earned a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in government from the University of Maryland. Appointed to the endowed chair in 2008, Maranto previously served as professor of political science at Villanova University and taught at Bryn Mawr College, Arizona State University, the University of Virginia, Lafayette College, James Madison University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Southern Mississippi. With over two decades of research, writing, and teaching on education and leadership, he has conducted fieldwork in more than 200 schools, served five years on his local school board, and more than ten years on a cyber charter school board. His research interests include the role of leaders in education, developing effective school leaders, incentives for working in low-performing schools, charter schools, civil service reform, political correctness in universities, and reforming urban schools.