About Professor Jonathan T. Hughes...

Over the past thirty years, PROFESSOR JONATHAN T. HUGHES has been a mathematics teacher, department chair, director of management information systems, IBM system 34/36 programmer, assistant superintendent for personnel, finance and administration and university professor in several public and private educational settings in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut and New York.   He was an Associate Professor of Management Science at Teachers College, Columbia University and a Professor and Department Coordinator in the Department of Educational Leadership and Technology at Dowling College. He is now serving as Professor and Director for the Center for Educational Leadership and Accountability at St. John's University's Eastern Long Island Campus in Oakdale, New York.

He is a nationally known speaker and lecturer on technology and data analysis issues and he has a rich background in both the educational, financial and strategic planning components of school operations. He also concentrates on using technology to help create a strong public image for institutions through data analysis and presentation.

Professor Hughes has written extensively about school district management, planning and governance issues. He is author of The Multimedia Administrator (Cummings and Hathaway, 1997), the primary author of Understanding Educational Planning (Connolly-Cormack, 1997)  and  Multimedia Budget Presentations (International Association of School Business Officials Press, 1998) and the co-author of Boards at Their Best (Connolly-Cormack, 1995), all of which concentrate on merging new analytical skills with new technologies for both the current and future generation of educational leaders. He completed a book on resource sharing among school districts entitled From Cooperation to Collaboration (Cummings and Hathaway, 1999) and served as a contributing author and computer programmer for Chasing the American Dream (The NYC Community Service Society and the NY Conference of the NAACP, 1981). Most recently, using data gathered over a six year period and funded by the Marie and John Zimmermann Foundation, Dr. Hughes co-authored Mentoring for Success (Zimmermann, 2006), which is an on-going examination of an academic mentoring model for urban youth conducted on-site at Yale University, Wheelock College, Trinity College, and Sacred Heart University.

Given his strong commitment to Long Island schools, Dr. Hughes has recently completed the the fifth printing of the School District Almanac (2007), published across New York State for about 400 school districts. This longitudinal database project is intended to help provide educational decision-makers with an immediate and timely database of financial, instructional, achievement, and demographic data for decisions and planning. He recently published School District Vital Signs (2007) and The Budget Pulse (2007), both summary derivatives of a growing family of products from the School District Almanac database.

He is also the author of a number of published articles on school district management techniques including “Building new knowledge for school quality improvement”;, “Decision mapping leads to decision  making”; “The Digital Business Administrator”;  “Using benchmarking to analyze maintenance and operations efficiency”; “Getting to the handshake: A partnership  primer”;  “Multimedia school budget presentations”; “Using geographic information systems for administrative decision making”; “Multimedia caveats”;  “The Administratively effective school  district”; “Geographic information systems for the 21st century business office”, "The Digital Administrator for the New Age" and "The School Board Member as a Professional".

Dr. Hughes has been a lead researcher and consultant for a number of international, national and regional school systems and educational organizations including The British Patana School (Bangkok,Thailand),The Futures School (Cairo, Egypt), The International School ( Panama), The Baldwin School (Puerto Rico), The Caribbean Preparatory School(St. Thomas), Dallas(TX), San Francisco(CA), Nazareth(PA), Saucon Valley(PA), Summit(NJ), Westfield(NJ), Paterson(NJ), Pearl River(NY), Nyack(NY), Clarkstown(NY), South Orangetown(NY) and Nanuet(NY), and over fifty other school districts on Long Island(NY), in New Jersey and in Connecticut.

 Professor Hughes earned his bachelors degree (B.A.) in mathematics from Ithaca College, a masters in mathematics education (M.A.T.) from Harvard University and his M.Phil., M.Ed., and Ph.D. from Columbia University.