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Saturday Feb 06, 2016
Saturday Feb 06, 2016
As we recognize and celebrate Black History Month, this episode of In the CLEar features Dr. James D. Anderson, renown educator, historian, and author.
SOURCE: http://education.illinois.edu/faculty/janders:
James D. Anderson is the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutsgell Professor
of Education; the Head of the Department of Education Policy,
Organization and Leadership; the Executive Associate Dean for the
College of Education and affiliate Professor of History. His scholarship
focuses broadly on the history of U.S. education, with specializations
in the history of African American education in the South, the history
of higher education desegregation, the history of public school
desegregation, and the history of African American school achievement in
the 20th century. His book, The Education of Blacks in the South,
1860-1935, won the American Educational Research Association outstanding
book award in 1990. He is senior editor of the History of Education
Quarterly. Anderson has served as an expert witness in a series of
federal desegregation and affirmative action cases, including Jenkins v.
Missouri, Knight v. Alabama, Ayers v. Mississippi, Gratz v. Bollinger,
and Grutter v. Bollinger. He served as an adviser for and participant in
the PBS documentaries School: The Story of American Public Education
(2001), The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow (2002) and Forgotten Genius: The
Percy Julian Story. He was elected to the National Academy of Education
in 2008. In 2012, he was selected as a Fellow for Outstanding Research
by the American Educational Research Association and received the
Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Association of Colleges for
Teacher Education. In 2013, he was selected Center for Advanced Study
Professor of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership at the
University of Illinois.
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