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Small Schools and Race
VUE Number 2, Fall 2003
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Author Biographies
Theresa Perry
Theresa Perry is Vice President for Community Relations and Associate Professor of Education at Wheelock College. Formerly, she was Undergraduate Dean at Wheelock, a position she held for eleven years. As Chief Academic Officer for the Undergraduate Division, she was responsible for faculty hiring, curriculum, academic policy and standards. Under her leadership, the College underwent a major curriculum revision which included introducing race, class and gender content throughout the curriculum. She also raised the number of full-time faculty of color in the undergraduate division to 25 percent.
Dr. Perry is one of the three authors of the recently published book, Young, Gifted and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African American Students. She has also edited several books: Freedom's Plow; Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom; Teaching Malcolm X, and, with Lisa Delpit, The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African American Children. She is the author of a monograph published by The Center for Family Schools and Community Learning, entitled "Toward a Theory of African American Achievement." Recently Dr. Perry developed and has taught a two-day institute for teachers, teacher educators and researchers on African American Achievement. She is currently working with the community engagement effort of the Boston High School Reform Initiative.
Dr. Perry's areas of expertise include teacher education, African American achievement, multicultural education and Black language.
> VUE 2 Article by Theresa Perry:
Reflections of an African American on the Small Schools Movement
Wendy Puriefoy
Wendy D. Puriefoy is president of the Public Education Network (PEN), the nation's largest network of community-based school-reform organizations, where she has helped establish numerous foundations and systemic reform initiatives. Ms. Puriefoy graduated from William Smith College and holds three master of arts degrees from Boston University, in African American Studies, American Studies, and American Colonial History. Prior to joining PEN, she worked on the desegregation of the Boston public school system and was executive vice-president and chief operating officer of the Boston Foundation, a community endowment supporting public health/welfare, educational, cultural, environmental, and housing programs.
> VUE 2 Article by Wendy Puriefoy:
Linking Communities and Effective Learning Environments: The Role of Local Education Funds
Robert Rothman
Robert Rothman is responsible for writing Institute publications and editing the Institute's quarterly journal Voices in Urban Education, a "roundtable-in-print" designed to air diverse viewpoints and share new knowledge on vital issues in urban education. He has written for numerous education publications and organizations and was a reporter and editor for Education Week. He was also a senior project associate for Achieve, a study director for the National Research Council, and the director of special projects for the National Center on Education and the Economy. Bob holds a BA in political science from Yale University. He is the author of Measuring Up: Standards, Assessment and School Reform and numerous book chapters and articles on testing and education reform.
> VUE 2 Article by Robert Rothman:
From the Editor
Warren Simmons
Warren Simmons is the executive director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. The Institute was established in 1993 to generate, share, and act on knowledge that improves conditions and outcomes in American schools, particularly in urban areas and in schools serving disadvantaged students. The Institute pursues its work through four initiatives: supporting educational leadership; rethinking accountability; redesigning school districts; and fostering community-centered approaches to education reform. In each of those areas, the Institute conducts applied research, provides professional development, and offers technical assistance designed to illuminate, share, and extend promising practices.
Before joining the Institute, Dr. Simmons was Executive Director of the Philadelphia Education Fund, a nonprofit organization that helped the School District of Philadelphia to fund, develop, and implement new academic standards, content-based professional development, standards-based curriculum resources, and comprehensive school reform, as part of the Children Achieving reform agenda.
> Biography of Executive Director Warren Simmons
> VUE 2 Article by Warren Simmons:
Small Schools: From Promise to Practice
Thomas Toch
Thomas Toch is writer-in-residence at the National Center on Education and the Economy in Washington, D.C. and the author of High Schools on a Human Scale: How Small Schools Can Transform American Education (Beacon Press, 2003)
He was a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution from 1999 to 2002, where he worked on a book about Edison Schools, Inc. and the market revolution in American education with the support of the Smith Richardson, Rockefeller, Spencer, and Achelis foundations.
Between 1989 and 1999 Toch was a writer and editor at U.S. News and World Report, where he specialized in education coverage. He was managing editor of the magazine's 1999 special report on American high schools.
Toch also has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, and The Washington Monthly. He has been a guest commentator on education on the ABC Nightly News, Good Morning America, the CBS Morning News, CNN, C-SPAN, and National Public Radio. He was the editorial consultant to the prime-time television series "Education on Trial," produced by MacNeil/Lerher Productions. In the early 1980's, he was a writer and an editor at Education Week.
> VUE 2 Article by Thomas Toch:
Spinning a Web of Relationships
Patricia Wasley
is the dean of the University of Washington College of Education. She was formerly the dean of the Graduate School of Education at Bank Street College in New York City. She has worked as a researcher for the Coalition of Essential Schools and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. She began her career as a high school English teacher.
> VUE 2 Article by Patricia Wasley:
In Search of Authentic Reform
Archives
Small Schools and Race
VUE Number 2, Fall 2003
| VUE Home | Archives | Order Print Copy |
Author Biographies
Theresa Perry
Theresa Perry is Vice President for Community Relations and Associate Professor of Education at Wheelock College. Formerly, she was Undergraduate Dean at Wheelock, a position she held for eleven years. As Chief Academic Officer for the Undergraduate Division, she was responsible for faculty hiring, curriculum, academic policy and standards. Under her leadership, the College underwent a major curriculum revision which included introducing race, class and gender content throughout the curriculum. She also raised the number of full-time faculty of color in the undergraduate division to 25 percent.
Dr. Perry is one of the three authors of the recently published book, Young, Gifted and Black: Promoting High Achievement among African American Students. She has also edited several books: Freedom's Plow; Teaching in the Multicultural Classroom; Teaching Malcolm X, and, with Lisa Delpit, The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African American Children. She is the author of a monograph published by The Center for Family Schools and Community Learning, entitled "Toward a Theory of African American Achievement." Recently Dr. Perry developed and has taught a two-day institute for teachers, teacher educators and researchers on African American Achievement. She is currently working with the community engagement effort of the Boston High School Reform Initiative.
Dr. Perry's areas of expertise include teacher education, African American achievement, multicultural education and Black language.
> VUE 2 Article by Theresa Perry:
Reflections of an African American on the Small Schools Movement
Wendy Puriefoy
Wendy D. Puriefoy is president of the Public Education Network (PEN), the nation's largest network of community-based school-reform organizations, where she has helped establish numerous foundations and systemic reform initiatives. Ms. Puriefoy graduated from William Smith College and holds three master of arts degrees from Boston University, in African American Studies, American Studies, and American Colonial History. Prior to joining PEN, she worked on the desegregation of the Boston public school system and was executive vice-president and chief operating officer of the Boston Foundation, a community endowment supporting public health/welfare, educational, cultural, environmental, and housing programs.
> VUE 2 Article by Wendy Puriefoy:
Linking Communities and Effective Learning Environments: The Role of Local Education Funds
Robert Rothman
Robert Rothman is responsible for writing Institute publications and editing the Institute's quarterly journal Voices in Urban Education, a "roundtable-in-print" designed to air diverse viewpoints and share new knowledge on vital issues in urban education. He has written for numerous education publications and organizations and was a reporter and editor for Education Week. He was also a senior project associate for Achieve, a study director for the National Research Council, and the director of special projects for the National Center on Education and the Economy. Bob holds a BA in political science from Yale University. He is the author of Measuring Up: Standards, Assessment and School Reform and numerous book chapters and articles on testing and education reform.
> VUE 2 Article by Robert Rothman:
From the Editor
Warren Simmons
Warren Simmons is the executive director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. The Institute was established in 1993 to generate, share, and act on knowledge that improves conditions and outcomes in American schools, particularly in urban areas and in schools serving disadvantaged students. The Institute pursues its work through four initiatives: supporting educational leadership; rethinking accountability; redesigning school districts; and fostering community-centered approaches to education reform. In each of those areas, the Institute conducts applied research, provides professional development, and offers technical assistance designed to illuminate, share, and extend promising practices.
Before joining the Institute, Dr. Simmons was Executive Director of the Philadelphia Education Fund, a nonprofit organization that helped the School District of Philadelphia to fund, develop, and implement new academic standards, content-based professional development, standards-based curriculum resources, and comprehensive school reform, as part of the Children Achieving reform agenda.
> Biography of Executive Director Warren Simmons
> VUE 2 Article by Warren Simmons:
Small Schools: From Promise to Practice
Thomas Toch
Thomas Toch is writer-in-residence at the National Center on Education and the Economy in Washington, D.C. and the author of High Schools on a Human Scale: How Small Schools Can Transform American Education (Beacon Press, 2003)
He was a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution from 1999 to 2002, where he worked on a book about Edison Schools, Inc. and the market revolution in American education with the support of the Smith Richardson, Rockefeller, Spencer, and Achelis foundations.
Between 1989 and 1999 Toch was a writer and editor at U.S. News and World Report, where he specialized in education coverage. He was managing editor of the magazine's 1999 special report on American high schools.
Toch also has contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Baltimore Sun, and The Washington Monthly. He has been a guest commentator on education on the ABC Nightly News, Good Morning America, the CBS Morning News, CNN, C-SPAN, and National Public Radio. He was the editorial consultant to the prime-time television series "Education on Trial," produced by MacNeil/Lerher Productions. In the early 1980's, he was a writer and an editor at Education Week.
> VUE 2 Article by Thomas Toch:
Spinning a Web of Relationships
Patricia Wasley
is the dean of the University of Washington College of Education. She was formerly the dean of the Graduate School of Education at Bank Street College in New York City. She has worked as a researcher for the Coalition of Essential Schools and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. She began her career as a high school English teacher.
> VUE 2 Article by Patricia Wasley:
In Search of Authentic Reform
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