About: Alethea Frazier Raynor
Profile:
Alethea Frazier Raynor is a principal associate at the Annenberg Institute
for School Reform and co–guest editor of this issue of Voices
in Urban Education. Alethea Raynor rejoined the Institute staff to lead the New Orleans research team for the 2009 Emerging Knowledge Forum. She has worked on education issues in post-Katrina New Orleans since 2006, when she joined the National Coalition for Quality Education in New Orleans. Previously, she headed the Institute’s team in providing technical assistance to Carnegie Corporation’s Schools for a New Society initiative and, in collaboration with the technical support partners, in developing a final case study of the progress and challenges of systemic high school reform in three of the sites. Prior to coming to the Institute, she taught at Clark University and, most recently, founded the Risers Academy for Young Men, an all-male pilot program in the Savannah-Chatham County (SC) Public Schools designed to help young Black males achieve academic success. She has worked as a classroom teacher, guidance counselor, equity specialist, and central office administrator in Boston, Baltimore, and the District of Columbia public schools, and at the state education level providing professional development for principals and district leaders in Maryland. She holds a B.A. in sociology from Boston University, a M.Ed. in counseling from the University of Massachusetts–Boston, and a Ph.D. in education from Clark University.
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