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