Communities and Schools
VUE Number 23, Spring 2009

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Maia Cucchiara Maia Cucchiara is an assistant professor in the Education and Policy Studies Program at Temple University and a research consultant at Research for Action. Her research focuses on education policy in urban contexts, particularly in the connections between education policy and practices and broader social, economic, and political processes, such as urban deindustrialization and “revitalization.”Maria is currently working on two projects: a multisite examination of policies and practices designed to promote urban revitalization by attracting middle-class parents to public schools and a study of economic integration in urban settings. > VUE 23 Article: Market-Oriented Education Reforms: The Cost to Civic Capacity in Philadelphia

 

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Sabina Deitrick Sabina Deitrick is associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and co-director of the Urban and Regional Analysis Program of the University Center for Social and Urban Research at the University of Pittsburgh. > VUE 23 Article: City Schools and Civic Capacity: Another Look at Pittsburgh, Boston, and St. Louis

 

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Eva Gold Eva Gold is co-founder and principal at Research for Action and research director of the Learning from Philadelphia’s School Reform project. She has served as primary investigator for numerous local and national studies examining the dynamics of parent, community, school relations, including a national study which presents a process for documenting the contributions of parent/community organizing groups to strengthening communities and improving schools (see below). Gold’s other research interests include home and school literacies, civic capacity for school reform, and the politics of urban education. She is a Guest Lecturer in the Urban Studies Program and Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on community activism and school reform and methods of data analysis and reporting. > VUE 23 Article: Market-Oriented Education Reforms: The Cost to Civic Capacity in Philadelphia

 

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Anne T. Henderson Anne T. Henderson is a senior consultant, at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. Anne has worked with organizations that represent or serve parents and community members. Her clients include the Tellin' Stories Project in Washington, DC; the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence in Lexington, Kentucky; the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region in Washington, DC; the Alexandria, Virginia Public Schools; and the Parent Institute for Quality Education in California. She is a co-founder of the National Coalition for Parent Involvement in Education. > VUE 23 Article: South Central Youth Empowered thru Action: The Power of Intergenerational Organizing

 

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Rodney E. Hero Rodney E. Hero is the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy in the department of political science at the University of Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters. Hero specializes in U.S. Democracy and Politics, especially as viewed through the analytical lenses of Latino and Ethnic/Minority Politics, State/Urban Politics, and Federalism. He has published a number of research articles on these topics. He has served on the editorial boards of several prominent political science journals. Hero also served as a Vice President of the American Political Science Association during 2003-2004 and is President-elect of the Midwest Political Science Association (2006-07). > VUE 23 Article: Multiethnic Moments: A Further Look

 

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John Portz John Portz is chair and professor of the political science at Northeastern University. > VUE 23 Article: City Schools and Civic Capacity: Another Look at Pittsburgh, Boston, and St. Louis

 

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Robert Rothman Robert Rothman is responsible for writing Annenberg 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 22 Article: The New “Central Office”

 

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Zakiyah Shaakir-Asari Zakiyah Shaakir-Ansari is a parent leader in the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice. > VUE 23 Article: Parent Power in New York City: The Coalition for Educational Justice

 

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Seema Shah Seema Shah is a principal associate in community organizing and engagement at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. Seema co-directs a national study on community organizing and school reform. Over the years, Seema has worked extensively with public schools and nonprofit organizations as an evaluator and researcher. Prior to her work at the Institute, Seema completed a post-doctoral fellowship in mental health policy at the Consultation Center, Yale University School of Medicine. She earned a BA in Psychology from Duke University and a PhD in clinical-community psychology from DePaul University, where her dissertation research focused on the acculturation experiences of immigrant and refugee youth. > VUE 23 Article: South Central Youth Empowered thru Action: The Power of Intergenerational Organizing

 

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Mara S. Sidney Mara S. Sidney is an assistant professor in the department of political science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. > VUE 23 Article: Multiethnic Moments: A Further Look

 

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Elaine Simon Elaine Simon is co-director of the Urban Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior research consultant at Research for Action. Elaine Simon is an anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research and evaluation in the fields of education, employment and training, and community development. She is Co-Director of Urban Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences and adjunct Associate Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Elaine’s perspective on education is informed by her background in urban studies and community development. She studied the early 1990s Chicago education reform that devolved power to communities and parents and later the ambitious systemic school reform effort in Philadelphia. Her current research, which focuses on high schools and community organizing for school reform, benefits from her broad perspective on urban life and urban school reform. > VUE 23 Article: Market-Oriented Education Reforms: The Cost to Civic Capacity in Philadelphia

 

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Lana Stein Lana Stein is chair and professor of political science and professor of public policy administration at the University of Missouri — St. Louis. > VUE 23 Article: City Schools and Civic Capacity: Another Look at Pittsburgh, Boston, and St. Louis

 

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Ocynthia Williams Ocynthia Williams is a parent leader in the New York City Coalition for Educational Justice. > VUE 23 Article: Parent Power in New York City: The Coalition for Educational Justice