Ernest R. House

Ernest R. House is an American academic specializing in program evaluation and education policy. He has been a Professor Emeritus of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder since 2002. House was a faculty member at the University of Colorado Boulder from 1985 to 2001. Before that, he was a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1969 to 1985. He has been a visiting scholar at UCLA, Harvard, University of New Mexico, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (1999-2000), and also in England, Australia, Spain, Sweden, Austria, and Chile.

With Ronald Wooldridge, he was editor-in-chief of the journal New Directions for Program Evaluation (the journal of the Evaluation Research Society) from 1982 to 1985.

Education
House graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a bachelor's degree in English in 1959. He earned a master's degree in secondary education from Southern Illinois University in 1964, and completed a doctorate (Ed. D.) from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1968.

Awards and honors

 * Phi Beta Kappa
 * Ford Foundation Fellow (England), 1975.
 * Harold E. Lasswell Prize (with William Madura) presented by Policy Sciences (1989).
 * Paul Lazarsfeld Award for Evaluation Theory, for lifetime contributions to evaluation research and theory, awarded by, 1990.
 * Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, CA, 1999-2000

Books

 * The Politics of Educational Innovation (1974)
 * Survival in the Classroom (with S. Lapan, 1978)
 * Evaluating with Validity (1980, re-issued 2010)
 *  Jesse Jackson and the Politics of Charisma: The Rise and Fall of the Push/Excel Program (1988)
 * Professional Evaluation: Social Impact and Political Consequences (1993)
 * Schools for Sale: Why Free Market Policies Won't Improve America's Schools, and What Will (1998)
 * Values in Evaluation and Social Research (with K. Howe, 1999)
 * Regression to the Mean: A Novel of Evaluation Politics (2007)
 * Cherry Street Alley (2015)
 * Evaluating: Values, Biases, and Practical Wisdom (2014)