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149 matches found for How People Learn Brain,Mind,Experience,and School Expanded Edition. in Biographical Sketches of Committee Members

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...Deborah Stipek (Chair) is the dean of the School of Education at...
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...Stanford University. Stipek is a professor of education and her research and...
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...and classroom climate on student motivation, and issues related to child,...
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...family, and educational policy. Stipek earned a doctorate in developmental...
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...psychology from Yale University in 1977 and a bachelor's degree in psy-...
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...Stanford in 2000 she directed UCLA's laboratory elementary school, and...
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...Academy of Sciences Board on Children, Youth, and Families. Recent books...
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...include: Constructive and Destructive Behavior: Implications for Family,...
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...School, andt Society (with A. Bohart, 2001~; (with K. Seal, 2001~; Motiva-...
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...tion to Learn: Integrating Theory and Practice (4th edition, 2002~....
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...Carol Ames is a professor of educational psychology and dean of the...
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...development of social and academic motivation in children. Her research...
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...focuses on the effects of classroom structure, competition, and teaching...
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...practices on children's motivation to learn, and on school and family rela-...
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...tionships and specific strategies for increasing parental involvement in...
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...children's learning. Dr. Ames' areas of expertise include disadvantaged...
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...children and youth; motivation; motivation and learning in family/commu-...
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...nity/schools; motivation and social development; and parent involvement...
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...Thomas I. Berndt is professor and head of the Department of Psycho-...
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...on the faculty of both the University of Oklahoma and Yale University. His...
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...primary research interests are in friendships and peer influence in childhood...
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...and adolescence, but he has also published research on achievement moti-...
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...vation, self-esteem, social cognition, school adjustment, and other topics....
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...Psychology and as a consultant for the National Research Council and the...
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...Emily Cole served as the principal of Jefferson Davis High School in the...
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...Houston Independent School District from 1988 until the summer of 2001....
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...was initiated. This innovative program included all the schools in a K-12...
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...ation rates and a 74 percent increase in awarding of college scholarships. At...
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...convening on Hispanic Children and Youth and to join a select committee...
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...on the U.S. Department Forum on English Language Learner/Native Ameri-...
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...can/Dropout and selected to participate in Aspen Institute on High School...
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...tees on school reform initiatives. She received her formal education from...
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...Southwest Texas State University and the University of Houston, with...
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...sity, and the Ford Foundation's National Center for Urban Partnerships....
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...Yale University School of Medicine's Child Study Center and has been a...
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...on promoting a focus on child development as a way of improving schools....
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...Dr. Comer founded the Yale Child Study Center School Development...
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...and community to improve social, emotional, and academic outcomes for...
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...children that, in turn, help them achieve greater school success. Dr. Comer...
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...has authored a number of books and has been awarded a number of...
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...awards and honorary degrees. Tames Comer is a member of the Institute of...
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...lames Connell is a former special education teacher and associate...
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...professor at the University of Rochester and is currently the president of the...
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...Institute for Research and Reform in Education, based in Philadelphia. His...
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...work in youth development and education spans 25 years he has written...
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...numerous basic and applied research articles and helped design and support...
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...youth development and education projects across the country. Dr. Connell...
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...wide school reform in 1996. He has authored a White Paper commis-...
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...work and a recent report for the Department of Education, Getting Off the...
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...the Department of Education that Riverview Gardens, MO, Shaw and...
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...Greenville, MS, and Houston, TX, have joined (along with Kansas City,...
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...participating schools and districts involved in this project. Tim received his...
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...search focuses on small urban high schools, and more recently, on access to...
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...and T. Balin, 19971; and Charting Urban School Reform: Reflections on...
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...Public High Schools in the Midst of Change (19941. She has been awarded...
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...the Janet Helms Distinguished Scholar Award (1994) and a Spencer Foun-...
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...training program in adolescent medicine and directed the general pediatrics...
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...activities and was the national study director of the multisite clinical trial,...
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...the Infant Health and Development Program. In 1979, she was elected to...
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...the Institute of Medicine and is a member of numerous academic societies....
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...Mental Health and Behavior Board, the Board on Health Promotion and...
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...Disease Prevention, and the Board on Children, Youth, and Families. She...
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...has an M.D. from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons....
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...W. Norton Grubb is a professor and the David Gardner Chair in...
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...Higher Education at the School of Education, the University of California,...
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...education, public finance, education policy, community colleges and "sec-...
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...ond chance" programs, and social policy for children and youth. He is also...
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...prepare urban school principals in the Bay Area. He is currently working on...
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...a book about the development and consequences of occupational roles for...
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...schools and colleges, The Vocational Roles of American Schooling: Believ-...
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...ers, Dissenters, and the Education Gospel. He is the author most recently of...
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...leges (Routledge, 19991; Learning to Work: The Case for Re-integrating...
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...Education and Job Training (Russell Sage Foundation, 19961; Working in...
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...the Middle: Strengthening the Education and Training of the Middle-...
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...Skilled Labor Force (Tossey-Bass, 19961; and Education for Occupations in...
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...American High Schools (Teachers College Press, 1995), a two-volume ed-...
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...ited work on the integration of academic and occupational education....
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...lum and Instruction, College of Education and in Latina/Latino Studies,...
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...College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-...
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...Champaign. She currently serves as an invited member on OERI-RAND's...
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...fellow with the National Academy of Edcuation/Spencer Foundation, and a...
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...cerned with the sociocultural and organizational factors that play out in the...
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...teaching of mathematics to Latina/Latino and African American students....
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...versity, and her master's and Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the...
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...Carol Lee is associate professor of education in the Learning Sciences...
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...program at Northwestern University's School of Education and Social...
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...literacy expertise within specific ethnic speech communities and their impli-...
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...cations for learning and teaching processes; and cultural models for knowI-...
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...National Science Foundation, and the National Council of Teachers of...
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...Language and Literacy (NCRLL) and is a fellow of NCRLL. She has also...
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...schools, and a school principal in addition to her university based research....
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...tional Council of Teachers of English) and co-editor of Vygotskian Perspec-...
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...Hopkins University and principal research scientist at the Center for Social...
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...Organization of Schools (CSOS). He is founding director (1966-1969) and...
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...the sociology of education, with a focus on how the formal and informal...
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...organizational properties of schools influence the cognitive and affective...
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...movement on the academic and personal development of disadvantaged...
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...students. His primary publication in this area is (with G. Natriello and...
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...A.M. Pallas) Schooling Disadvantaged Students: Racing Against Catastro-...
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...fornia, Santa Barbara, and was appointed director of the University of...
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...interest in decreasing high school drop-out rates has led him to examine...
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...such issues as student mobility and school effectiveness. He has published...
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...widely on education and work; the education of disadvantaged students,...
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...particularly school drop-outs; and education policy. His research on educa-...
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...tion policy has focused on school performance, school segregation, and...
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...Public School System. Her career in urban education spans 3 decades dur-...
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...ing which she has held positions as teacher, principal, director, and super-...
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...intendent in New York and Florida. She most recently served as associate...
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...superintendent in Broward County Public Schools in Fort Lauderdale,...
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...Florida, where she was in charge of technology, strategic planning, and...
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...school accountability....
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...and director of the Project on Effective Interventions at Harvard University....
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...She heads the Project's Pathways Mapping Initiative and co-chairs the Aspen...
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...dren and Families. Ms. Schorr has woven many strands of experience with...
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...social policy, community building, education, and human service programs...
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...future of disadvantaged children and their families and neighborhoods. She...
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...is a member of the Brookings Children's Roundtable and the National...
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...Selection Committee of the Ford Foundation/Kennedy School Awards for...
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...Within Our Reach: Breaking the Cycle of Disadvantage (1988), and Com-...
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...mon Purpose: Strengthening Families and Neighborhoods to Rebuild...

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