About the Board

John Sipple has served as the Director for the New York State Center for Rural Schools since 2008, and has been a member of the Cornell Department of Education since 1998. He has focused his research interests on the responses of public school districts to changes in state and federal policy. Central to his work are issues of leadership and organizational change and how they relate to learning opportunities for students across racial, socioeconomic, and geographic lines. He teaches courses on the organizational, social, and political contexts of American education and school reform. Dr. Sipple's primary focus of outreach serves the Rural Schools Association (RSA) of New York State. He has a lengthy and productive relationship with the RSA and serves as the research arm of the organization.

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