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The Evolving Federal Role
VUE Number 24, Summer 2009
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The Evolving Federal Role
VUE Number 24, Summer 2009
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Author Biographies
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Suzanne M. Bouffard Suzanne Bouffard is a research fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work focuses on integrated approaches to education and development, including family-school-community collaborations, whole-school professional development and support systems, and interventions that simultaneously build academic and social-emotional skills. She has provided professional development for diverse practitioners, including the national Parental Information and Resource Centers and the Statewide Afterschool Networks, and has written numerous policy briefs and research reports. She is currently working on the School Reform and Beyond project, which aims to build integrated and synergistic approaches to learning by creating, piloting, and taking to scale a set of effective and efficient interventions from birth through adolescence. > VUE 24 Article: The Federal Role in Out-of-School Learning: After-School, Summer Learning, and Family Involvement as Critical Learning Supports |
 | Linda Darling-Hammond Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University where she has launched the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute and the School Redesign Network. She has also served as faculty sponsor for the Stanford Teacher Education Program. She is a former president of the American Educational Research Association and member of the National Academy of Education. Her research, teaching, and policy work focus on issues of school restructuring, teacher quality and educational equity. Darling-Hammond is author or editor of more than a dozen books and more than 300 articles on education policy and practice. > VUE 24 Article: Steady Work: How Finland Is Building a Strong Teaching and Learning System |
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Sarah N. Deschenes, Sarah Deschenes, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher at Harvard Family Research Project, focusing on out-of-school time research. Her current projects include a study of youth participation in out-of-school time programs located in cities with after school systems. Before joining HFRP, Sarah was a consultant conducting education and youth policy research and, prior to that, a postdoctoral fellow at the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University. Her previous research includes a multiyear study of organizations advocating for and with youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, an examination of the efforts of youth organizations to create learning environments, and a study of the role of neighborhoods in developing and connecting various supports for youth. > VUE 24 Article: The Federal Role in Out-of-School Learning: After-School, Summer Learning, and Family Involvement as Critical Learning Supports |
| Priscilla M. D. Little Priscilla Little is Associate Director of Priscilla Little is Associate Director of HFRP and Project Manager for HFRP's Out-of-School Time (OST) Learning and Development Initiative focused on building the field of out-of-school time through the timely development and dissemination of quality evaluation information and tools. She is a national expert on research and evaluation of out-of-school time programs and how they can complement in-school learning and development. Her particular areas of expertise within the OST arena are program quality and program participation; her newest research study is a multi-city study of recruitment and retention strategies to improve middle and high school student participation in OST programs. > VUE 20 Article: The Federal Role in Out-of-School Learning: After-School, Summer Learning, and Family Involvement as Critical Learning Supports |
 | Helen Janc Malone Helen Janc Malone is an advanced doctoral candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a graduate research assistant at the Harvard Family Research Project. Over the years, she has worked in Washington, DC on issues related to youth development and transitions, out-of-school time learning, and comprehensive school reform. She holds masters degrees from Harvard University and University of Maryland, College Park. > VUE 24 Article: The Federal Role in Out-of-School Learning: After-School, Summer Learning, and FamilyInvolvement as Critical Learning Supports |
 | 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 24 Article: The Evolving Federal Role |
 | Warren Simmons Warren Simmons directs the work of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. Before joining the Institute in 1998, he was executive director of the Philadelphia Education Fund, where he supported districtwide efforts to enact standards-based reform. He received a B.A. in psychology from Macalester College and a PhD in psychology from Cornell University. He serves on the boards of several national and local education organizations including the Public Education Network, the National Center on Education and the Economy, and the Rhode Island Children's Crusade. > More > VUE 24 Article: Urban Education Reform: Recalibrating the Federal Role |
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Gail L. Sunderman Gail L. Sunderman is Senior Research Scientist at The George Washington University Center for Equity and Excellence in Education where she directs the Mid-Atlantic Equity Center (MAEC). Her research focuses on educational policy and politics, and urban school reform, including the development and implementation of education policy and the impact of policy on the educational opportunities for at-risk students. Prior to joining MAEC, she directed a five-year study examining the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 at The Civil Rights Project. She is coauthor of the book, NCLB Meets School Realities: Lessons from the Field and editor of Holding NCLB Accountable: Achieving Accountability, Equity, & School Reform. She is a former Fulbright scholar and received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago. > VUE 24 Article: The Federal Role in Education: From the Reagan to the Obama Administration |
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Heather B. Weiss Dr. Heather Weiss is the Founder and Director of the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) and is a Senior Research Associate and Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. From its beginning in 1983, HFRP’s mission has been to support the creation of more effective practices, interventions and policies to promote children’s successful development from birth to adulthood. A key emphasis of HFRP’s work is the promotion, documentation and assessment of complementary learning-strategies that support children’s learning and development in nonschool as well as school contexts. > VUE 24 Article: The Federal Role in Out-of-School Learning: After-School, Summer Learning, and Family Involvement as Critical Learning Supports |
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