Professor Cynthia Garcia-Coll and Assistant Professor Deborah Rivas-Drake presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, March 11-13, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA. 

Professor Kenneth Wong joined U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at a symposium on "Transforming Public Education" in the Peoria (IL) Civic Center on April 21, 2010.

At the Conference on The Role of Family in Child Education, April 2nd - 19th, Professor Garcia Coll is speaking on the following topics:

April 2nd- Role of the parents in educating children.

At the annual meetings of the American Education Research Association on May 2, 2010, Professor Kenneth Wong was presented the David Colton Award for his significant contributions to the development of the Politics of Education Associat

Professor Kenneth Wong's research on school board and urban district governance was cited in a report by WBEZ, the Chicago Public Radio. The report is entitled, "Controversial school decisions, with little public discussion Chicago's school board members almost never vote 'no' " by education news reporter Linda Lutton on April 27, 2011.

The state of Indiana is considering taking over some of its public schools that are performing poorly and turning them over to be run by private companies or nonprofits. Kenneth Wong, chair of the education department, says that state takeover of schools has rarely been tried and when it is done, it’s usually for financial mismanagement, not academic performance. "It’s a relatively new undertaking," Wong says. "The jury is still out."

It is with great sadness that I report to you the death of Kolajo Paul Afolabi, adjunct lecturer of education in the fall semester. Our thoughts are with his family and his friends.

Kolajo suffered from a severe head injury during his morning jog and passed away at the hospital yesterday morning, September 22. He was a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and was working on his dissertation on college access. Kolajo earned his BA with Honors in Public Policy at Brown in 2003.

Assistant Professors Deborah Rivas-Drake and Rosa Cho have been awarded a grant from the American Educational Research Association to study how community, school, and family resources influence Latino adolescents' postsecondary motivations and choices. The announcement is in the August/September issue of Educational Researcher.