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| Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay |
| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
Public policy and child and adolescent development; family functioning; health disparities; consequences of poverty and welfare reform on children and families.
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PhD, Developmental Psychology , The University of Michigan , 1981
BA, Social Relations , Harvard University, Radcliffe College , 1974
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| Cook, Thomas |
| Joan and Sarepta Harrison Chair in Ethics and Justice |
| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Professor , Psychology |
| Professor , Sociology |
| Social science methodology, evaluation, educational policy. |
PhD , Stanford , 1967
BA , Oxford , 1963
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| Hedges, Larry |
| Board of Trustees Professor of Statistics and Social Policy |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
Development and application of statistical methods for the social, medical, and biological sciences; evaluation research.
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PhD, Mathematical Methods in Educational Research , Stanford University , 1980
MA, Statistics , Stanford University
BA, Mathematics , University of California at San Diego
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| Rapp, David |
| Associate Professor , Learning Sciences |
| Coordinator, Learning Sciences PhD Program |
| Associate Professor , Department of Psychology |
| Reading comprehension; narrative and expository experiences; updating prior knowledge; mental and situation models; translation of cognitive science research to educational settings; multimedia learning; visualizations as learning tools. |
PhD, Experimental Psychology , State University of New York, Stony Brook , 2000
MA, General Psychology , New York University , 1996
BA, Psychology , State University of New York, Albany , 1994
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| Rosenbaum, James |
| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Professor , Sociology, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Poverty and housing; welfare reform; high school to work transition. |
PhD, Sociology , Harvard University , 1973
MA, Sociology , Harvard University , 1968
BA, Culture and Behavior , Yale University , 1966
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| Sherin, Bruce |
| Associate Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Conceptual change in science; computational linguistics applied to natural language data; programming environments for learning; external representations in science and mathematics. |
PhD, Science and Mathematics Education , University of California, Berkeley , 1996
MA, Physics , University of California, Berkeley , 1989
BA, Physics , Princeton University , 1985
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| Spencer, Bruce |
| Professor, Statistics |
| Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Faculty Fellow , Institute for Policy Research |
| Statistics and public policy with a special focus on the design and evaluation of large-scale statistical data programs. |
PhD , Yale University , 1979
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| Spillane, James |
| Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Professor in Learning and Organizational Change |
| Chair and Professor, Human Development and Social Policy |
| Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Faculty Associate, Institute for Policy Research |
| Policy implementation; educational policy; organizational change; school leadership; relations between policy and teachers' and administrators' practice. |
PhD, Curriculum, Teaching and Education Policy , Michigan State University , 1993
BA, Education and Geography , St. Patrick's College, National University of Ireland , 1984
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| Urzua, Sergio |
| Assistant Professor, Economics |
| Labor economic, microeconometrics, the role of cognitive and noncognitive abilities, and uncertainty as determinants of schooling decisions, labor market outcomes and social behavior. |
PhD in Economics , The University of Chicago , 2005
Master of Arts in Economics , The University of Chicago , 2003
Master of Arts in Economics , Universidad de Chile , 2001
B.A. in Economics , Universidad de Chile , 2000
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| Uttal, David |
| Professor , Education |
| Professor , Psychology |
| Mental representation, cognitive development, spatial cognition, early symbolization. |
PhD , University of Michigan , 1989
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| Waxman, Sandra |
| Professor, Learning Sciences |
| Professor, Psychology |
| Language and conceptual development, early cognitive development, language and thought. |
PhD , University of Pennsylvania , 1985
MA , Johns Hopkins University , 1981
BS , University of Pennsylvania , 1976
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