RSF Visiting Scholar Prudence Carter has been appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. Her new position will begin on June 30, 2016.

Carter is currently the Jacks Family Professor of Education and Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, where she teaches a range of courses on racial and ethnic relations, social and cultural inequality, the sociology of education, urban schooling, and research methods. She is also the Faculty Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities and a former co-director of the Stanford Center for Opportunity in Policy in Education. Carter is the author of Keepin’ It Real: School Success beyond Black and White (2005) and Stubborn Roots: Race, Culture, and Inequality in U.S. and South African Schools (2012), and co-editor of Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give All Children an Even Chance (2013).

During her time in residence at the Foundation, Carter is researching the belief systems that shape educational policy‐making. Using the results of a multi-method qualitative study, she is investigating how student success is framed in public discourse by the mainstream media and how policymakers use research to shape policies designed to enhance student and school success. Carter is also examining how policymakers’ social backgrounds relate to their educational policy decision‐making.

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