The Future of Education

Professor, Department of Policy, Organizational, and Leadership Studies, Temple University, holds a BA from Northwestern University and a PhD from Boston College. An empirical sociologist she has taught statistics and quantitative and qualitative methodology for over 30 years and supervised over 100 quantitative and qualitative research projects and dissertations at the graduate and undergraduate level. Her research has focused on improving the educational achievement of students and the use of educational technology. She has been a co-PI on a U.S. Department of Education Community Technology Center Grant designed to improve math achievement in four Prince George’s County (MD) high schools; on a Pennsylvania Department of Education grant designed to evaluate the state of technology expectations and proficiencies in all of the state’s preservice teacher programs (92 institutions); and on five National Science Foundation multi-year, large-scale, quasi-experimental-design projects—one testing a model designed to improve science and math teaching resulting in improved K–16 student learning, another which was an out-of-school program for at-risk middle school students designed to improve interest in science and math careers and to improve the achievement in science and math, and lastly on a project to improve high school science and math teaching. She hold the copyright to a computer simulation that has proven successful with troubled adolescents. She has authored a book on computer applications and co-edited another on the state of education in the 21st century. In addition she has published or presented more than 50 articles in peer reviewed journals or conferences. She has also been project evaluator for multi-million-dollar US DoE and NSF programs.