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Center for Educational Leadership: Summer Leadership Institute VI

Pushing Past the Achievement Gap

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Gloria Ladson-Billings

Kellner Family Chair in Urban Education and Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies

At the University of Wisconsin's School of Education, Dr. Ladson-Billings, who also serves as a project director at the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), has concentrated her research on multicultural education, social studies, critical race theory and education, and culturally relevant pedagogy. At WCER, she and colleagues developed Teach for Diversity, a graduate program for teachers who want to teach in diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic settings. In 2003-2004, she was a visiting scholar at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California.

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