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back to members listDr. John Marks, OBEDirector, Educational Research Trust, UK
Dr. John Marks has degrees in Science and the History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from London University. He is currently co-Director with Baroness Cox of the Educational Research Trust and was formerly Administrator of the National Council for Educational Standards (NCES).
Marks has written extensively on education, often as a co-author with Baroness Cox; has been an elected parent governor of a comprehensive school since 1978; and has over 40 years teaching experience - physics, mathematics, electronics and history of science - in universities, polytechnics and schools. He has served on various national bodies on education - the Schools Examination and Assessment Council (1990-3); the National Curriculum Council, (1992-3); and the Schools Curriculum & Assessment Authority (1993-7) and has been awarded the OBE for services to education.
Marks' books include Relativity - a non-mathematical introduction to the classical, special and general theories of relativity in 1972, Science and the Making of the Modern World in 1983 and Fried Snowballs: Communism in Theory and Practice, in 1990.
Books
Cox, C. & Marks, J. 2006, This Immoral Trade: Slavery in the 21st Century, Monarch Books, Toronto.
Cox, C. & Marks, J. 2005, Islam, Islamism and the West: The Divide Between Ideological Islam and Liberal Democracy, American Foreign Policy Council, Washington.
Marks, J. 2001, The Betrayed Generations: Standards in British Schools 1950-2000, Centre for Policy Studies, London.
Marks, J. 1990, Fried Snowballs: Communism in Theory and Practice, Claridge Press, London.
Marks, J. 1984, Science and the Making of the Modern World, Heinemann, Oxford.
Marks, J. 1972, Relativity: A Non-Mathematical Introduction to the Classical, Special and General Theories of Relativity, Geoffrey Chapman, London.
Websites
The website of the Educational Research Trust of which John Marks is the co-Director
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