Contributors

June Ahn is a graduate student and Dean’s Fellow in Urban Education in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California.

Bruce D. Baker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Kansas.

David P. Baker is a Professor of Education and Sociology in the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University.

Eva L. Baker is a Distinguished Professor of Education at UCLA, Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. Dr. Baker was recently the president of the American Educational Research Association and is currently a member of the National Academy of Education.

Nina Bascia is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Theory & Policy Studies at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT).

Clive Belfield is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Queens College, City University of New York.

Mark Berends is a Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity at the University of Notre Dame.

Tara Béteille is a doctoral candidate in the Economics of Education program at Stanford University and a Stanford Graduate Fellow.

Geoffrey D. Borman is a Professor of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Senior Researcher with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, and the lead analyst for the Center for Data-Driven Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University.

Kathryn Borman is a Professor of Anthropology and lead researcher at the Alliance for Applied Research in Anthropology and Education, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida.

Dominic J. Brewer is the Clifford H. and Betty C. Allen Professor in Urban Leadership and a Professor of Education in Economics and Policy at the University of Southern California.

Mary Alice Callahan is currently a doctoral student at U.C. Berkeley studying educational policy.

Eric Camburn is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin and a Senior Researcher at the Consortium of Policy Research in Education.

Steve Cantrell is a Senior Program Officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Previously he directed the Regional Educational Laboratory-Midwest and was Chief Research Scientist for Los Angeles Unified School District.

Martin Carnoy is the Vida Jacks Professor of Education at Stanford University.

Tino A. Castañeda is a doctoral student in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Lora Cohen-Vogel earned her Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University and is currently an Assistant Professor at Florida State University.

Richard Correnti is an Assistant Professor and a Research Scientist at the Learning Research Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh.

Bridget Cotner is a graduate student in the Measurement, Research and Evaluation Program in the College of Education, University of South Florida.

Linda Darling-Hammond is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of teaching quality, school reform, and educational equity. She is former president of the American Educational Research Association and a member of the National Academy of Education.

Amanda Datnow is Professor and Director of Education Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

Laura M. Desimone is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.

Maressa Dixon is a graduate student in Applied Anthropology at the University of South Florida.

George Farkas is a Professor in the Department of Education at University of California, Irvine.

Michael J. Feuer is the executive director of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education in the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies.

Robert Floden is a University Distinguished Professor of Teacher Education, Measurement and Quantitative Methods, Educational Psychology, and Educational Policy at Michigan State University. He is associate dean for research, director of the Institute for Research on Teaching and Learning and co-director of Teachers for a New Era (TNE).

Barbara Foorman is the Francis Eppes Professor of Education and Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research at Florida State University.

Timothy G. Ford is a doctoral candidate and Erickson Research Fellow in the Curriculum, Teaching, and Educational Policy program at Michigan State University.

Rachel Fulcher-Dawson is a graduate student in educational policy at Michigan State University.

Bruce Fuller is Professor of Education and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley.

Adam Gamoran is a Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies and the director of Wisconsin Center for Education Research at University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Patricia Gándara is Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, and co-director of The Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA.

Mona Ghali is a graduate student at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Louis M. Gomez is the Aon Professor of Learning Sciences and co-director of the National Science Foundation-sponsored Center for Learning Technologies in Urban Schools (LeTUS) at Northwestern University.

M. Cecilia Gómez is a doctoral student in the School of Education at the University of California, Davis.

Preston C. Green, III is an Associate Professor of Education and Law in the College of Education and Dickerson School of Law at Pennsylvania State University.

Bridget Hamre is the Research Coordinator in the National Center for Research on Early Childhood Education at the University of Virginia.

Jane Hannaway is currently Principal Research Associate and Director of the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute. She is also the overall Principal Investigator of the National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) project.

Eric Hanushek is the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University

James C. Hearn is a Professor of Higher Education in the Institute of Higher Education at University of Georgia.

Thomas Hehir is Professor and Director of the School Leadership Program in the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Joan L. Herman is Director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) at UCLA.

Carolyn D. Herrington is a Professor of Educational Policy and Director of the Learning Systems Institute Center on Educational Policy at Florida State University.

Frederick M. Hess is Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He is a faculty associate at the Harvard University Program on Education Policy and Governance.

Meredith Honig is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Washington.

Rebecca Jacobsen is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at Michigan State University.

Nathan Jones is a doctoral candidate at Michigan State University pursuing a joint degree in Education Policy and Special Education.

David Kaplan is a Professor of Quantitative Methods in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and holds an affiliate faculty appointment in the interdisciplinary Prevention Sciences Program.

Venessa Keesler is a graduate student in the Measurement and Quant