Eric Cooper

Child Rearing and Intelligence

Dr. James Comer, child psychiatrist, teaches at Yale University’s Child Study Center and is associate dean at the Yale School of Medicine.

The Shame of the Nation

Jonathan Kozol is a best selling author and advocate for reform of urban schools that date back to his time as a Boston schoolteacher in the 1960’s.

Teacher Development and How it Impacts School Redesign

Dr. Darling-Hammond holds a B.A. from Yale University and an Ed.D. from Temple University. She is the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University. She has been awarded seven honorary degrees and has been published more than 100 times. She is nationally recognized expert on the role that teacher development plays in school design.

Changing American Schools

Dr. Asa G. Hilliard III is the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Urban Education at Georgia State University, with joint appointments in the Department of Educational Policy Studies and the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education. He earned a B.A. in Educational Psychology, M.A. in Counseling, and Ed.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Denver, where he also taught in the College of Education and in the Philosophy colloquium of the Centennial Scholars Honors Program.

The Language of Discipline and Achievement

Dr. Jabari Mahiri holds a Ph.D. English, University of Illinois at Chicago. He is co-director of the Center for Urban Education and a principal investigator for the Diversity Project. An author and editor, he is also an Academy Instructor for the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTASC) and serves on the board of the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools (BAYCES).