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Benjamin (Ben) Levin (born 1952) was the Canada Research Chair in Education Leadership and Policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto. As a civil servant he served for three years in the Ontario provincial government as Liberal Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Education after having held a similar post in Manitoba.〔("Province Receives Levin Report" ). Department of Education, Ontario, 5 May 2011.〕 On March 3, 2015, Levin pleaded guilty to three charges relating to making and distributing child pornography. He was sentenced to three years imprisonment. == Career == Levin holds a B.A. from the University of Manitoba, an Ed.M. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from OISE, as well as an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa. As a civil servant, he first served for the Province of Manitoba as Deputy Minister of Advanced Education and as Deputy Minister of Education, Training and Youth from 1999 through 2002. He then served as the Deputy Minister for Education for the Province of Ontario for three years from 2004 to 2007 and again from 2008 to 2009.〔 As an academic, Levin has published eight books, including “Making a Difference in Urban Schools” (with Jane Gaskell, University of Toronto Press), "More High School Graduates" (Corwin Press) and "Breaking Barriers” (with Avis Glaze and Ruth Mattingley, Pearson Canada) and more than 200 other articles on education, conducted many research studies, and has spoken and consulted on education issues around the world,〔 including serving on the governing council of the National College for School Leadership in England.〔http://www.uottawa.ca/about/bio/citation-benjamin-levin-2011〕 Levin was academic director for Ontario’s new Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research (KNAER), funded by the Ministry of Education to improve the sharing of research findings and their use in policy and practice. The government of Ontario suspended him upon his arrest on child-pornography charges in July 2013. Levin headed the "Research Supporting Practice in Education" (RSPE), a program of research and related activities aimed at learning more about building strong linkages between research, policy and practice, referred to as Knowledge Mobilization (KM). RSPE is headquartered at OISE/University of Toronto and supported with core funds from the Canada Research Chairs program. Levin was the principal investigator working with academic colleagues and graduate students. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benjamin Levin (academic)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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