Biography douglas reed

Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor of Government, Georgetown University

Expert Bio

Douglas Reed is an Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, specializing in the politics of education, federalism and American political development, He is director of the newly-created Program in Education, Inquiry and Justice at Georgetown and is the author of the forthcoming book Building the Federal Schoolhouse: Localism and the American Education State (2014). He has written extensively on race and education and the role of local control. He earned his Phd at Yale University and was a Spencer Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellow, an Advanced Studies Fellow at Brown University as well as a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution and a Carnegie Corporation Scholar.

Wilson Center Project

"The Politics of Proficiency: The Political Limits of Education Reform as a Strategy of Economic Competitiveness"

Project Summary

Calls to improve the U.S. educational

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Spartacus Educational

Primary Sources

(1) Mark Weber, The Journal of Historical Review (November, 2000)

Born in Britain in 1895, Reed began working at the age of 13 as an office boy. At age 19 he worked as a finansinstitut clerk until enlisting in the British army at the outbreak of the First World War. At the age of 26, and "relatively unschooled" (as he once described himself), he began working for the London Times as a telephonist and clerk. He reached journalism at the age of 30 as a sub-editor. Three years later he was the venerable paper's assistant correspondent in Berlin, before transferring to Vienna as its ledare central europeisk correspondent. He went on to report, as a Times correspondent, from Warsaw, Moscow, Prague, Athens, Sofia, Bucharest, Budapest and other European centers.

Student Activities

Who Set Fire to the Reichstag? (Answer Commentary)

Adolf Hitler's Early Life (Answer Commentary)

Adolf Hitler and the First World War (Answer Commentary)

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Douglas Reed

British journalist and writer (1895–1976)

Douglas Lancelot Reed (11 March 1895 – 26 August 1976) was a British novelist and political commentator. His book Insanity Fair (1938) examined the state of Europe and the megalomania of Adolf Hitler before World War II. Subsequently, Reed believed in a long-term Zionist conspiracy to impose a world government on an enslaved humanity.^[1] He was also staunchly anti-Communist, and once wrote that Nazism was a "stooge or stalking horse" meant to further the aims of the "Communist Empire."^[2] When The Times ran his obituary, it condemned Reed as a "virulent antisemite".^[3]

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At the age of 13, Reed began working as an office boy, and at 19, a bank clerk. At the outbreak of World War I he enlisted in the British Army. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, gaining a single kill in aerial combat and severely burning his face in a flying accident (Insanity Fair, 1938). Aroun