Warner Norton Grubb III

Warner Norton Grubb III (1948 - 2015) was an American author, educational economist, and professor. His academic focus was inequality in society, particularly institutional sources of inequality.

Life

Grubb was born in Santiago, Chile while his father was on foreign assignment with the Eastern Standard Oil Company (ESSO). He was the grandson of U.S. Navy Commodore Warner Norton Grubb and a descendant of John Grubb, who came from Cornwall in 1677 and settled in Delaware. Grubb's father moved the family to Rhode Island several years before he died, when Grubb was eleven.

In 1969, after graduating from Harvard University with a major in economics, Grubb married Erica Black, known as Rikki.

His earliest work focused on school finance and later on other resources. Grubb contended that while sufficient budgets were necessary, money by itself is not enough. He called this the money myth. Putting his theories into practice, in 2000 Norton started the Principal Leadership Institute at Berkeley to train principals to lead urban schools. Leadership Challenges in High Schools: Multiple pathways to success (2010) Basic Skills in Education in Community Colleges: Inside and outside of classrooms (2012)