Education

About The Author

W. Norton Grubb is the David Pierpont Gardner Professor in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the faculty coordinator of the Principal Leadership Institute, a program to prepare principals for urban schools. In addition to conducting wide-ranging research, he provides workshops for secondary and community college instructors and administrators, presenting different approaches to reform. He has also participated in public policy efforts such as the California Master Plan Commission and National Research Council Committee on high school motivation. His recent books include The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling; Honored But Invisible: An Inside Look at Teaching in Community Colleges; and Learning to Work: The Case for Reintegrating Education and Job Training.

Lynda Tredway is the coordinator of the Principal Leadership Institute. Before going to Berkeley she spent almost 30 years working with urban schools in Washington, D.C. She was formerly on the faculty of George Washington University, where she was project director for the Urban Initiative, a school-university partnership for preparing preservice teachers for urban schools. She has also served as a program director and lead teacher in the Washington, D.C., public schools. Her publications include A Primer for Social Justice Educators and Community Mapping: A Curricular Guide for Teacher Educators, from the Contextual Teaching and Learning Project of USDOE (with M. Freund).

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