Biography

About the author: Dr. James J. Van Patten is Emeritus Professor at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and serves as adjunct professor at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. He has published extensively in the educational literature and edited Challenges and Opportunities for Education in the Twenty-First Century for The Edwin Mellen Press in 1999. He is active in a number of professional education societies including The American Educational Research Association and The Education Law Association.