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Equity After Katrina
VUE Number 10, Winter 2006

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Jonathan Kozol Jonathan Kozol

Jonathan Kozol is a nonfiction writer, educator, and activist, best known for his award-winning books on the plight of disadvantaged children in the United States. After being fired from his teaching job for reading a Langston Hughes poem to his students, Jonathan Kozol wrote Death at an Early Age, which put urban schools on America's political agenda. He has since tackled illiteracy, homelessness, and educational equality, earning himself the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award and the Conscience in Media Award for his efforts. Kozol is an eloquent spokesperson for the disenfranchised, and explores the reflections of children surviving and thriving in America's most violent communities.

> VUE 10 Article: Segregation and Its Calamitous Effects: America's "Apartheid" Schools

 
Gloria Ladson-Billings Gloria Ladson-Billings

Gloria Ladson Billings is the Kellner Family Professor of Urban Education in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She is president of the American Educational Research Association. Ladson-Billings's research examines the pedagogical practices of teachers who are successful with African American students. She also investigates Critical Race Theory applications to education. Gloria is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Dreamkeepers: Successful teachers of African American children and Crossing over to Canaan: The journey of new teachers in diverse classrooms, and numerous journal articles and book chapters.

> VUE 10 Article: Now They're Wet: Hurricane Katrina as Metaphor for Social and Educational Neglect

 
    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 14 Article: Educational Equity, after Katrina

 
    Hal Smith

Hal Smith is a senior research associate at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. Hal's work focuses on developing partnerships – between the community and the university, among community development corporations, and between community education providers and schools – as well as on evaluating alternative education programs and services for court-involved youth. He has participated in public engagement projects with the U.S. Department of Education and low-income communities around education reform and parental involvement. He has held teaching, administrative, and research positions with City College of New York, College of the Holy Cross, Northern Illinois University, and Harvard University. He holds an M.A. in Africana studies from the State University of New York at Albany and an Ed.M. and Ed.D. in Community Education and Lifelong Learning from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

> VUE 10 Article by Hal Smith and Dennie Palmer Wolf: Transformation, Not Tinkering: School Reform after Hurricane Katrina

 
 
Charles Willie Charles Willie

Charles V. Willie is the Charles William Eliot professor of education, emeritus, at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Charles Willie is a sociologist whose areas of research include desegregation, higher education, public health, race relations, urban community problems, and family life. Before coming to the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he was chairman of the Department of Sociology and vice president of Syracuse University. He was appointed by President Carter to the President's Commission on Mental Health and has been a member of the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council. He has served as vice president of the American Sociological Association and president of the Eastern Sociological Society. He has also served as a consultant, expert witness, and court appointed master in major school desegregation cases in larger cities such as Boston, Hartford, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City, Little Rock, Milwaukee, San Jose, Seattle, and St. Louis; and in other municipalities such as St. Lucie County and Lee County, Florida, and Somerville, Cambridge and Brockton, Massachusetts. Willie is the author of over one hundred articles and twenty-five books on issues of race, education, and urban communities.

> VUE 10 Article: The Real Crisis in Education: Failing to Link Excellence and Equity

 
 
Dennie Palmer Wolf Dennie Palmer Wolf

Dennie Palmer Wolf is director of Opportunity and Accountability. She heads a team that examines excellence and equity issues related to opportunity to learn and outcomes for students in K-12 urban systems. Prior to coming to the Institute, she taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and codirected the Harvard Institute for School Leadership. Her areas of interest include standards, assessment, and school reform and cultural policy for youth. She has served three terms as a member of the National Assessment Governing Board. Dennie is the recipient of numerous awards and grants and has published extensively in the field of education. She received an Ed.D. and Ed.M. from Harvard University.

> VUE 10 Article by Dennie Palmer Wolf and Hal Smith: Transformation, Not Tinkering: School Reform after Hurricane Katrina


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