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Fall 2007

Jennifer Adams and her colleague, Scott Rozelle of the Freeman Spogli Institute, received corporate donations from The Gap Foundation, the Cyrus Tang Foundation, the International Engineering Technology Foundation, and the Ford Foundation to support their new project in China, the Rural Education Action Project (REAP).

Arnetha Ball was promoted to full professor of education.

Professor Emeritus Ed Bridges published Retirement Roulette: May the Odds Be with You (iUniverse, 2007), which offers a comprehensive retirement plan and pragmatic answers to questions facing pre-retirees and retirees, as well as frank discussions of personal experiences with financial planners.

Prudence Carter was awarded an honorable mention in August for her book Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White (Oxford University Press, 2005), by the American Sociological Association's Race, Gender, and Class Section's 2007 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award.

Linda Darling-Hammond testified on the lead panel before the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee regarding the draft bill to re-authorize the No Child Left Behind Act. She focused on the need to invest in improving teacher quality and developing a multiple-measures approach to accountability.

Edward Haertel received the California Educational Research Association's (CERA) Lifetime Achievement Award in November for his exemplary research and contributions to the California educational research community. This award is given to an individual who has contributed greatly to research in education in the field of assessment, accountability, instructional practices, educational policy, or another area. Haertel is honored to follow in the footsteps of Richard Shavelson, who was the 2004 recipient of this award.

Kenji Hakuta was awarded a research fellowship by the Council of the Great City Schools for his project, "Technology-Supported Tools to Enhance Science Instruction and Learning for English Language Learners in Middle Schools: A Collaborative Project with the San Francisco Unified School District." His project seeks to improve middle school science instruction by providing technology-based tools that will help teachers analyze the academic language in the curriculum and adapt instructional support to match the language proficiency of students.

Michael Kamil has been named committee chair for the Adolescent Literacy Practice Guide to be published by the Institute for Education Sciences (IES). The committee is charged with creating a set of practice guides based on available research.

Aki Murata has been awarded a Wallenberg Global Learning Network research grant for her research project, "Curricular Design Framework Implementation: Teacher Thinking and Student Learning of Place Value and Multi-digit Subtraction. "The School of Education Student Guild awarded Murata the Advising Excellence Award at Commencement in June.

Ann Porteus received the Teaching Excellence award by the School of Education Student Guild at Commencement in June.

Woody Powell won the 2007 Viviana Zelizer Distinguished Scholarship Award from the American Sociological Association for his article, "Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences." Co-authored by Douglas White, Kenneth Koput, and Jason Owen-Smith, the article analyzes how changing organizational affiliations and evolving field structures shape the network ties and field formation of the volatile biotech industry.

Sean Reardon was reappointed with tenure.

Dan Schwartz received a National Science Foundation grant in August for his study, "The Educational Neuroscience of Integer Understanding," with Associate Professor (Research) of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Vinod Menon and Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning post-doctoral student Sashank Varma. In an effort to develop the field of educational neuroscience, Schwartz's team will examine the question, "How do people build upon a mature system of knowledge so they can go beyond that system?" in the context of mathematics learning.

Sam Wineburg delivered the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecture in August at the Arizona Historical Society. The lecture, co-sponsored by Arizona State University, was titled, "Forrest Gump and Other Keys to Students' Historical Understanding."