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SCHOLARS BOARD
Communities for Public Education Reform (CPER)

CPER’s important work is endorsed by leading scholars in the fields of education and youth engagement. The CPER Scholars Board enhances the visibility of community engagement for school reform and strengthens CPER grantees’ awareness and application of high quality educational research in equity-focused reform campaigns. CPER Scholars Board members are:

Linda Darling-Hammond

Charles Ducommun Professor of Education
Stanford University
School of Education

Lisa Delpit*

Felton G. Clark Distinguished Professor
Southern University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Michelle Fine

Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Women’s Studies, and Urban Education
The Graduate Center
City University of New York

Janice Jackson

Executive Director
Stanford University
Center for Opportunity Policy in Education

Joe Kahne

Professor of Education and John and Martha Davidson Chair
Mills College

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot*

Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education
Harvard University
Graduate School of Education

Ethan Lowenstein

Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction
Eastern Michigan University, College of Education

Deborah Meier*

Senior Scholar
New York University
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Pedro Noguera

Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education
New York University
Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development

Charles Payne

Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor
University of Chicago
School of Social Service Administration

Diane Ravitch

Research Professor of Education
New York University

John Rogers

Associate Professor of Education
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Penny Sebring

Founding Director
Consortium on Chicago School Research
University of Chicago

Mark Warren

Associate Professor of Education
Harvard University
Graduate School of Education

Roger P. Weissberg

NoVo Foundation Endowed Chair in Social and Emotional Learning
and Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Education
University of Illinois at Chicago

Joel Westheimer

University Research Chair in Democracy and Education
University of Ottawa