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Pages 109-118
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A couple of illustra tive papers include "Tightening Up: Declining Class Mobility During Russia's Market Transition" (American Sociological Review, October 2004) , "The Demographic Imperative in Religious Change" (American Journal of Sociology, September 2001)
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He serves on the Maine Governor's Task Force on Ocean Energy, and is a member of the advisory board of Neptune Wind, an offshore wind development company. At Harvard Business School, Baker teaches in the MBA program, as well as in the doctoral program.
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He held the Spencer Chair in Organi zational Studies in the School of Education and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University from 2004 until assuming Carnegie's presidency in September 2008. Prior to Stanford, he held the Marshall Field IV Professor of Education post in the sociology department at the University of Chicago, where he founded the Center for Urban School Improvement which supports reform efforts in the Chicago Public Schools.
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Previously, he was a professor at Harvard Law School, where he was founding codirector of the Harvard Civil Rights Project. His areas of special interest are administrative law, education policy, and race.
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GENO FLORES is chief deputy superintendent of public instruction for the California Department of Education. He previously served as executive director of school improvement for the Los Angeles Unified School District, as chief academic officer for Prince George's County Public Schools in Maryland, and as deputy superintendent of the San Diego City Schools.
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His work has investigated a range of education policies: test score volatility and the design of school accountability systems, teacher recruitment and retention, financial aid for college, race-conscious college admissions and the economic payoff of a community college education. Recently, he has directed the Measures of Effective Teaching project at the Gates Foundation.
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Before joining Boston University, he spent a year at NBER as an Olin Foundation fellow and prior to that was an assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine. During his tenure at Boston University, he has twice held appointments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for a year, once as a visiting scholar and once as a visiting professor and has been a visiting scholar at the Collegio Carlo Alberto, the University of New South Wales, and the Center for Research and Analysis of Migration.
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His interests include social psychology, especially power and status processes, the reciprocal effects of evolution and physiology on social behavior, social factors that affect academic performance, theory construction, and the sociology of science. Current research projects involve power in exchange networks, group process effects on IQ scores, the effects of emotions on status processes, and explaining why more women than men now attend colleges and universities.
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She has received career awards from the National Council on Measurement in Education and from the American Educational Research Association. BRIAN STECHER is a senior social scientist and the associate director of RAND Education.
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