Brown Bag Seminar

Cynthia E. Coburn is Chancellor’s Professor and Associate Professor in
Policy, Organization, Measurement, and Evaluation at the Graduate School
of Education, University of California at Berkeley. Coburn studies the
relationship between instructional policy and teachers' classroom
practices in urban schools. To date, Coburn has investigated this issue
in a series of studies that tackle critical issues facing public
schools: the relationship between reading policy and teachers' classroom
practice, the scale up of innovative mathematics curricula, data use at
the district level, and the relationship between research and practice
for school improvement. In 2011, Coburn was awarded the Early Career
Award from the American Educational Research Association in recognition
of her contributions to the field of educational research in the first
decade of her career. Coburn has a BA in philosophy from Oberlin
College, and a MA in sociology and a PhD in education from Stanford
University.