Marsh, David

Contact Information
Professor Emeritus
USC Rossier School of Education
E-mail: dmarsh@usc.edu

Dr. Marsh served on the new California High School Task Force and co-chaired the California High School Exit Exam Task Force for the California Department of Education. In 1999, he and co-author J.B. Codding published The New American High School: Educating for the 21st Century (Corwin Press). He co-authored Second to None: The report of the California High School Task Force (1992).

Dr. Marsh specialized in curriculum and instructional leadership, the process of change in educational organizations, teacher education and the continued professional development of teachers, program evaluation, qualitative research, administrators as instructional leaders, and the comprehensive reform of schools.

For five years, he was the "school coach" at Pasadena High School in California during its reform process. He has worked extensively with other schools and districts undergoing transformation. Recently, he has been involved with the National Alliance for Restructuring Education, especially in the area of high performance management.

An article about Dr. Marsh's Retirement is avaiable here.

Education:

• Ph.D., University of Wisconsin at Madison

Honors and Awards:

• Outstanding Alumnus from the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, 2000

• Fellow of the Australian-American Educational Foundation, 1997

• Fulbright Scholarship in India, 1993

• Senior Fellow, Central Ministry of Education

• Fellow of the Australian-American Educational Foundation