KEVIN R. KOSAR Kevin R. Kosar, Ph.D., is a researcher and writer with broad interests in American government and politics, history and ideas, and food and drink. He is the author of Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education Standards (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005). His writings have appeared in scholarly and professional journals, such as Choice, History of Education Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Public Administration Review, and Teachers College Record; and popular media, including The American and The Weekly Standard magazines, the Chicago Sun-Times and New York Press newspapers, and a variety of online publications, such as History News Network.

Some Recent Writings Book: Failing Grades: The Federal Politics of Education Standards (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005). Chapter: "Government Role in Schooling" in Sandra Mathison and E. Wayne Ross, eds., Battleground Schools (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, December 2007). Chapter: "Government Public Relations or Propaganda?" in Mordecai Lee, ed., Government Public Relations: A Reader (Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis, December 2007). Blogging: "Muddled AYP Fixes," ThisWeekInEducation.com, May 30, 2007. Book review: Susan Levine, School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program (Princeton University Press, 2008), History News Network, April 7, 2008. Book review: Nancy Kriplen, The Eccentric Billionaire: John D. MacArthur, Empire Builder, Reluctant Philanthropist, Relentless Adversary, (New York: Amacom, 2008), The American, February 13, 2008. Book review: Peter Bowler, Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007), The Weekly Standard, February 11, 2008. The review may be accessed freely here. Book review: Kenneth Osgood, Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad, Presidential Studies Quarterly, September 2007. Interview: "There Was No Plan": An Interview with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Author of Imperial Life in the Emerald City, Public Administration Review, November/December 2007.