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VUE Number 13, Fall 2006

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Author Biographies

    Emma Fuentes

Emma Fuentes worked with parents in Berkeley Organizing Congregations for Action and the Coalition for Excellence and Equity and is now an assistant professor in teacher education at the University of San Francisco.

> VUE 13 Article: Creating Demand for Equity: Three Theories for Transforming the Role of Parents in Schools  
Norm Fruchter Norm Fruchter

Norm Fruchter directs the work of the Community Involvement Program at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, formerly part of New York University's (NYU) Institute for Education and Social Policy (IESP), and is a clinical professor of education policy at New York University. Previously, he was director of IESP, which he formed in 1995, in collaboration with the deans of NYU's Steinhardt School of Education and Wagner School of Public Service, with the mission of improving public education so that all students, particularly in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color, obtain a just and equitable education and can participate effectively in a democratic society.

> VUE 13 Article: Community Engagement: Mobilizing Constitutents to Demand and Support Educational Improvement

 
    Richard Gray

Richard Gray is a principal associate of the Community Involvement Program at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. He has been a co-leader of the CIP since 1998 and is instrumental in helping to shape CIP's direction, with an emphasis on the eight-city national program. His work includes giving presentations, facilitating strategic plans, and conducting site visits in support of community school reform groups in Boston, Baltimore, Detroit, and Kansas City. He was involved with New York University's Institute for Education and Social Policy (IESP), from its inception in 1995, including consulting to the director on community organizing for education reform.

> VUE 13 Article: Community Engagement: Mobilizing Constitutents to Demand and Support Educational Improvement 
Don McAdams Don McAdams

Donald R. McAdams is president of the Center for Reform of School Systems whose mission is to teach school board members and superintendents how to transform their districts for high student achievement. From 1990 to 2002, McAdams served as a member of the Houston Independent School District Board of Education, a tenure that included two terms as board president. In 2002, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige appointed McAdams to the National Advisory Council on Institutional Quality and Integrity, and in 2003 Texas Governor Rick Perry appointed him to a Select Committee charged with preparing legislative proposals for a new public school finance system for Texas. McAdams has served as a member of the National Commission on Governance, Education Commission of the States, the Educational Leadership Advisory Council of the Wallace-Readers Digest Funds, and as a consultant to the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.

> VUE 13 Article: Urban School Boards and Their Communities

 
Jeremiah Newell Jeremiah Newell

Jeremiah Newell is a junior at the University of South Alabama and director of student engagement for the Mobile Area Education Foundation. Jeremiah Newell graduated with honors from John L. LeFlore High School in 2004. He is in his junior year of college at the University of South Alabama where he is pursuing a degree in Secondary Education/ Language Arts. Jeremiah has served in his capacity as Director of Student Engagement at MAEF for over two years. His primary field of research involves defining the role high school students play in public school reform. He also currently serves on the Governor's Commission on Quality Teaching where he helps to identify policy and practice changes that will bring more individuals into the teaching profession and train them to be effective teachers of the 21st Century. In addition to professional interests, Jeremiah is extremely active on the USA campus serving as a member of the African-American Student Association, Men of Excellence, Abeneekoo Fuo Honor Society, and various other clubs and organizations.

> VUE 13 Article: Placing Students at the Center of Education Reform

 
Pedro Noguera Pedro Noguera

Pedro Noguera is a professor of sociology at New York University, executive director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education and the co-Director of the Institute for the study of Globalization and Education in Metropolitan Settings (IGEMS). An urban sociologist, Noguera's scholarship and research focuses on the ways in which schools are influenced by social and economic conditions in the urban environment. Noguera has served as an advisor and engaged in collaborative research with several large urban school districts throughout the United States. He has also done research on issues related to education and economic and social development in the Caribbean, Latin America and several other countries throughout the world. From 2000 - 2003 Noguera served as the Judith K. Dimon Professor of Communities and Schools at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

> VUE 13 Article: Creating Demand for Equity: Three Theories for Transforming the Role of Parents in Schools

 
    Anne K. Okahara

Anne K. Okahara was co-chair of the Diversity Projects Parent Outreach committee and is now community engagement specialist for the Oakland Unified School District.

> VUE 13 Article: Creating Demand for Equity: Three Theories for Transforming the Role of Parents in Schools  
Bill Purcell Bill Purcell

Bill Purcell is mayor of Nashville, Tennessee. Bill Purcell is the fifth mayor of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, elected first in 1999 and reelected to a second term in 2003 with a record setting 84.8 percent of the vote. As mayor his priorities are good schools in every neighborhood, safe neighborhoods in every part of the city and a quality of life shared by all Nashvillians. His efforts on behalf of schools have drawn national attention as a model for mayors across the country. The Mayor's First Day Festival kicks off the opening of each school year and brings the attention of the whole city and region to the importance of education. Under his administration school funding rose from $397 million to $563 million—a 42% increase over seven years.

> VUE 13 Article: Engaging a City: Building Public Confidence and Support for Schools

 
    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 13 Article: A Citywide Partnership

 
    LaShawn Routé-Chatmon

LaShawn Routé-Chatmon was Diversity Project co-director and is now director of the Oakland Unified School District High School Redesign Initiative for the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools.

> VUE 13 Article: Creating Demand for Equity: Three Theories for Transforming the Role of Parents in Schools 
    Katrina Scott-George

Katrina Scott-George, after working as a parent activist for equitable and thus excellent education for all children, moved her son from Berkeley to Oakland public schools and took a job with the Oakland Unified School District trying to reform that system.

> VUE 13 Article: Creating Demand for Equity: Three Theories for Transforming the Role of Parents in Schools  
    Jean Yonemura Wing

Jean Yonemura Wing served as co-chair of the Diversity Project's Class of 2000 study and is now manager of research and best practices for the New School Development Group of Oakland Unified School District.

> VUE 13 Article: Creating Demand for Equity: Three Theories for Transforming the Role of Parents in Schools


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