I am a former high school social studies teacher (14 years), district superintendent (7 years) and university professor (20 years). I have published op-ed pieces, scholarly articles and books on classroom teaching, history of school reform, how policy gets translated into practice, and teacher and student use of technologies in K-12 and college. Recent research projects have been a study of school reform in Austin (TX) 1954-2009, a large comprehensive high school in Mapleton (CO) being converted into several small ones between 2001-2009, and how structural change in U.S. schools over the past century have had little effect in altering how teachers teach. The Austin book was As Good As It Gets (2010. The Mapleton study written with Gary Lichtenstein, Arthur Evenchik, Martin Tombari, and Kristen Pozzoboni was Against the Odds (2010), and the book on structural change and teaching is Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice: Change without Reform in American Education (2013).I currently blog at:http://larrycuban.wordpress.com