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ANTHONY ANTONIO’S latest article, “Faculty
of Color Reconsidered: Re-addressing Contributions to Scholarship,”
was published in the September/October 2002 issue of the Journal
of Higher Education.
MIKE ATKIN was recently appointed Chair of the Committee
on “Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning:
Bridging the Gap Between Large-Scale and Classroom Assessment,”
sponsored by the National Research Council and National Academies
of Science. |
His recent publications include Classroom Assessment
and the National Science Education Standards (co-edited
with Paul Black and Janet Coffey, 2001), and several book chapters.
ARNETHA BALL'S essay, “Three Decades of Research
on Classroom Life: Illuminating the Classroom Communicative
Lives of America’s At-Risk Students,” was commissioned
in celebration of the Spencer Foundation’s 30th anniversary.
It is the second essay in a series on “Traditions of Scholarship
in Education.” This summer
JOHN BAUGH gave keynote addresses
at both the annual conference of the National Fair Housing Alliance
and the annual Advanced Teacher Forum for the National Center
for Entrepreneurship. His research on linguistic profiling was
also featured in two stories on National Public Radio’s
Marketplace. |
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JO BOALER'S
book Experiencing School Mathematics: Traditional and
Reform Approaches to Teaching and Their Impact on Student Learning
(Revised and Expanded Edition, Lawrence Erlbaum Association)
was published in 2002.
WILLIAM DAMON recently received
two major grants for the Center on Adolescence. |
The Atlantic Philanthropies
foundation awarded a $375,000 grant to support the expansion
of “The Project on Good Work: Philanthropy in Contemporary
America” and the John Templeton Foundation awarded a $300,000
grant to study how young people learn to do the “right
thing” in today’s world.
LINDA DARLING-HAMMOND received funding from the Peninsula
Community Foundation for her project, “Developing a Teacher
Performance Assessment to Support the Development of Quality
Teaching.”
ELLIOT EISNER delivered the John
Dewey lecture at the American Educational Research Association
meeting in New Orleans. His recent publications include “The
Kind of Schools We Need,” published in Kappan
in April 2002 and “What Education Can Learn from the Arts
About the Practice of Education,” in the Journal
of Curriculum and Supervision, in press, among several
others.
DAVID FETTERMAN’S recent publications
include “Ethnography” in The Encyclopedia of
Social Science Research Methods, in press and “Web
Surveys to Digital Movies: Technological Tools of the Trade”
in Educational Researcher (Vol. 31, 2002), among
others.
SHELLEY GOLDMAN received funding
from the National Science Foundation for a project with SRI,
“Training and Resources for Assembling Interactive Learning
Systems.” Her PRIMES Project television special The
Family Angle aired on KTEH TV in September. The show
illustrates how mathematics is a part of everyday hectic lives
of children and their parents.
JIM GREENO and Melissa Sommerfeld
received funding from the Spencer Foundation for their project,
“Constructing mathematical identities in middle school.”
MICHAEL KAMIL received funding
from the Pacific Resources for Education and Learning for his
project, “Synthesis of Research and Learning.” In
May, MICHAEL KIRST published the Consortium for Policy Research
in Education Research Report “Mayoral Influence, New Regimes,
and Public School Governance.” The report examines the
recent shift in city governance structures to give mayors more
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JOHN KRUMBOLTZ
was awarded the American Psychological Association Award for
Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge in Chicago
in August. The November American Psychologist will
include the citation, his biography, and the award address.
TERESA LAFROMBOISE recently received
the American Psychological Association Division 45 Distinguished
Career Contributions to Research Award. |
In August, she traveled
to Africa to speak at the University of Botswana and the University
of Pretoria on Individual, Community, and School Influences
on American Indian Adolescent Resilience. She also met with
faculty and graduate students in Education and Psychology at
the University of Witwatersrand and the University of Cape Town.
This work, sponsored by the Spencer Foundation, was part of
the link between Stanford University and universities in Southern
Africa to enhance research-based training in Educational Policy.
DANIEL MCFARLAND was awarded $24,000
for his proposal to the 2001-2002 Stanford Office of Technology
Licensing Research Incentive Fund. The grant will support his
project, “Modeling Social Network Dynamics in Classrooms.”
NA’ILAH NASIR received a National
Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
for her project, “Learning On and Off the Court: African-American
high school basketball players constructing identities as ‘doers’
and ‘learners.’”
INGRAM OLKIN has been appointed a Fellow of Primary Care
Outcomes Research in the Department of Medicine.
In July, ROY PEA was selected as
a finalist for the 2002 World Technology Awards (Education)
and named a Fellow of the World Technology Network. He also
received several awards for research projects, including an
NSF award to complete the work of the distributed Center for
Innovative Learning Technologies, the NSF Major Research Instrumentation
award for “Development of a High Performance Digital Video
Collaboratory for Learning Sciences Research,” and a $400,000
Institutional Development Grant from the Hewlett Foundation
for the new Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning. He
has published several recent articles, including “Critical
Path Analysis of California’s Science and Technology Education
System: A report prepared by the California Council on Science
and Technology” (April 2002).
WOODY POWELL was invited to give
the annual Clarendon lectures at the University of Oxford. The
lecture series, tentatively entitled “Science, Innovation,
and Economic Growth,” will take place in 2003. He also
has received the Administrative Science Quarterly’s
2002 Award for Scholarly Contribution for his 1996 paper,
“Interorganizational Collaboration and the Locus of Innovation:
Networks of Learning in Biotechnology.” The award is presented
annually to the author of the paper published five years earlier
that had the greatest influence on subsequent theory and research.
FRANCISCO RAMIREZ is the principal
investigator in a new research project, “Expansion and
Impact of the World Human Rights Regime: Longitudinal and Cross-National
Analyses Over the Twentieth Century.” The project is supported
by grants from the Institute for International Studies and the
National Science Foundation.
RICHARD SHAVELSON was invited to
be a Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer from July 2003 to June
2005. The Distinguished Lectureship Program is designed for
Sigma Xi chapters to host visits from outstanding lecturers
who are at the leading edge of science or can address issues
at the intersection of science and society. |
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LEE SHULMAN
was among seven Stanford scholars elected to the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences last May.
DECKER WALKER’S book, Fundamentals
of Curriculum: Passion and Professionalism, was published
in July by Lawrence Erlbaum.
On May 14, HANS WEILER was given
an honorary doctorate of philosophy from Viadrina European University
at Frankfurt/Oder. |
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