In March, Mike (Myron) Atkin retired after 25 years at SUSE, including serving as dean from 1979-86. In 2003, he was co-editor of the book Everyday Assessment in the Science Classroom (National Science Teachers Association Press) and co-author of Inside Science Education Reform: A History of Curricular and Policy Change (Teachers College Press). For the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, he served as 2002-2003 Chair of the Committee on Assessment in Support of Instruction and Learning and currently serves on the Committee on Test Design for K-12 Science Achievement.

Arnetha Ball co-edited the book Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning, published in September by Cambridge University Press. Black Linguisitcs: Language, Society, and Politics in Africa and the Americas, also coedited by Ball, was published by Routledge Press last winter.

John Baugh received the Pioneer of Fair Housing Award from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in April for his ongoing project on linguistic profiling.The award is given to people demonstrating a “long-term commitment and dedication to civil rights.”

Last spring, Eamonn Callan was elected to the National Academy of Education as a member.

Whitewashing Race: The Myth of a Color-Blind Society, a book authored by Martin Carnoy, along with six other professors, won the Benjamin Hooks Outstanding Book Award and is a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award. He also received an honorary doctorate from the University of San Marcos in Lima, Peru. Bill Damon gave the keynote address to the President’s Institute of the Council of Independent Colleges in January.

Linda Darling-Hammond was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from the University of Connecticut in May. Her articles have recently appeared in The New Educator, Teachers College Record, and W.E.B. DuBois Review. She wrote the concluding chapter in Letters to the Next President: What We Can Do About the Real Crisis in Public Education, which was presented to all of the presidential candidates last spring. Darling-Hammond received a $1.25 million grant from the Wallace Foundation to study leadership development programs across the nation, a $300,000 grant from the Goldman-Sachs Foundation for the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute (SELI), and a $210,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for a study on the design and consequences of accountability policies.

Stephen Davis’ article “The Myth of the Rational Decision Maker” was published in the spring issue of the Journal of School Leadership. His article “Twelve Principles for Surviving the Principalship: How to Stay Afloat in Turbulent Waters” appears in the September/October 2004 issue of Leadership Magazine. He was named the Faculty Project Director of a Wallace Foundation grant to study effective principal preparation.

In March, Elliot Eisner was one of two scholars appointed to an honorary fellowship at the Institute of Education at the University of London. A book about his work, entitled Intricate Palette: Working the Ideas of Elliot Eisner, was published by Prentice-Hall in May. His book The Arts and the Creation of Mind was recently translated into Spanish and published in Spain. He has recently published articles in The Educative Experience: Teachers Respond to the Writings of John Dewey, Evaluation Roots: Tracing Theorists’ Views and Influences, Teachers College Record, and Educational Leadership. Eisner delivered the John Landrum Bryant lecture at Harvard University.

Edward Haertel recently published an article with W.A. Lorié entitled “Validating Standards- Based Test Score Interpretations,” which appeared in the 2004 Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives.

Mike Kirst’s new book From High School to College: Improving Opportunities for Success in Postsecondary Education was published by Jossey Bass in April. He was also featured in the PBS Frontline documentary “California Education: From First to Worst,” which premiered in January.

John Krumboltz received the 2004 Living Legend in Counseling Award from the American Counseling Association. His book Luck is No Accident: Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life and Career was published by Impact Publishers last spring.

David Labaree is currently serving a three-year term as vice president of Division F (History of Education) for AERA, and he was elected to serve on the AERA Executive Board for 2004-2005. He is also currently vice president of the History of Education Society and will take office as president in November. He has recently published the book The Trouble with Ed Schools (Yale University Press) and the abstract, “The Ed School’s Romance with Progressivism” in Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2004 (Brookings Institution Press).

Teresa LaFromboise gave a series of lectures at Teachers College at Columbia University as a Mellon Foundation Visiting Scholar in March.

In March, Milbrey McLaughlin was awarded the Miriam Aaron Roland Volunteer Service Prize, given annually to a Stanford faculty member who demonstrates a commitment to community service and engages students in integrating volunteer service with academic scholarship.

Debra Meyerson will serve as co-principal investigator on a grant from the Wallace Foundation entitled “Learning from Efforts to Strengthen Education Leadership: Principals’ Professional Preparation and Development.” She gave the Provost’s Distinguished Scholar Series Lecture at the University of Texas in March.

Ingram Olkin’s book The Nation’s Report Card: Evolution and Perspectives was published in March by Phi Delta Kappan International. Last November he was honored with the 2003 Townsend Harris Medal for outstanding postgraduate achievements from the City College of New York, where he received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1947.

Roy Pea recently became President of the International Society of the Learning Sciences. He also was appointed as a fellow at the California Council of Science and Technology and serves on the Advisory Board at the Stanford Center for Studies of Language and Information. His recent publications include four books and an article in The Journal of the Learning Sciences.

Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization, a book co-authored by Francisco Ramirez, received an Honorable Mention from the Section on Comparative and Historical Sociology of the American Sociological Association.

Nadeen Ruiz was the Distinguished Lecturer at Claremont Graduate University in Teacher Education in April. In June, she was honored by STEP students with the LaBoskey Award for Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education.

Richard Shavelson received the SUSE Student Advising Award for 2004 at the June commencement ceremony. In July, he received the Career Achievement Award for Outstanding Achievements in Self- Concept Research from the Self Centre of Australia jointly with the Max Planck Institute in Berlin. He recently authored the editor’s preface to Lee J. Cronbach’s “My Current Thoughts on Coefficient Alpha and Successor Procedures,” which he also co-edited for Educational and Psychological Measurement.

In July, Myra Strober became a member of the Mills College Board of Trustees.

Guadalupe Valdés was elected to the Executive Council of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) for a three-year term.

Hans Weiler has been appointed to the Governing Board of the new Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and as the sole U.S. member to UNESCO’s Global Scientific Committee. In April, he received the “Reformer of the Decade” award by the Center for Higher Education Development in Berlin.

Sam Wineburg’s article “Crazy for History” was published in the March issue of Journal of American History. The article was also featured in the Washington Post and was the topic of his appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Week.The American Association of State and Local History selected his book Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past as its “Book of the Season” for Winter 2003.

Sean Reardon joined the SUSE faculty this fall as a new statistician and quantitative research methodologist in SSPEP. Previously an Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology at Pennsylvania State University, his research interests are broadly focused on the evaluation of educational and social policy, with an emphasis on the implications of such policies for educational and social inequality. He received his doctorate in Educational Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University in 1997.