Closing the Opportunity Gap
What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance
Edited by Prudence L. Carter and Kevin G. Welner
Author Information
Prudence L. Carter is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stanford University.
Kevin G. Welner is Professor of Education at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Contributors:
W. Steven Barnett, Ph.D. is Director of the National Institute for Early Education Research and Board of Governors Professor of Education at Rutgers--The State University of New Jersey.
Clive Belfield is an Associate Professor of Economics at Queens College, City University of New York and a Research Fellow at Center for Postsecondary Education and Employment at Teachers College Columbia University.
Barnett Berry is the founder and CEO of the Center for Teaching Quality, a research & advocacy non-profit dedicated to improving student learning by advancing the teaching profession.
Prudence Carter is Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.
Linda Darling-Hammond is Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University and co-director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.
Patricia Gándara is Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California at Los Angeles.
Harvey Kantor is Professor and Chair of the Department of Education, Culture, and Society at the University of Utah.
Gloria Ladson-Billings is the Kellner Family Chair of Urban Education in the Departments of Curriculum & Instruction, Education Policy Studies, and Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Cynthia Espositio Lamy is Metrics Manager at the Robin Hood Foundation where she develops measures of the benefits of social programs.
Henry M. Levin is the William Heard Kilpatrick Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University and the David Jacks Professor of Higher Education and Economics, Emeritus, Stanford University.
Robert Lowe is a historian of education at Marquette University.
Michele S. Moses is Professor of Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Gary Orfield is Professor of Education, Law, Political Science & Urban Planning and Co-Director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at the University of California at Los Angeles.
John Rogers is an Associate Professor in UCLA's Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and the Director of UCLA's Institute for Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA).
Richard Rothstein is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute, and senior fellow at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy at the University of California (Berkeley) Law School.
Janelle Scott is an Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the Graduate School of Education and African American Studies Department.
Christopher H. Tienken is an assistant professor at Seton Hall University, Department of Education Leadership, Management and Policy.
Karolyn Tyson is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Amy Stuart Wells is a professor of Sociology and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and the Director of the Center for Understanding Race and Education (CURE).
Kevin G. Welner is a professor of education policy in Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice program area at the University of Colorado Boulder, and he is the director of the National Education Policy Center. .
Yong Zhao is Presidential Chair and Associate Dean at the College of Education, University of Oregon and a professor in the Department of Educational Methodology, Policy, and Leadership.
