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Vanderbilt University
H. Richard Milner, IV, PhD (also known as Rich,) is Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education and Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. His research, teaching, and policy interests concern urban education, teacher education, African American literature, and the social context of education. Professor Milner’s research examines practices and policies that support teacher effectiveness in urban schools. He has contributed significantly to the field of education in four interconnected ways: (1) Advanced conceptual and empirical understandings of what he calls “opportunity gaps”; (2) Constructed a Researcher Positionality Framework to challenge and support researchers in designing and enacting studies and programs of research that recognize, name, and work through what he describes as dangers “seen, unseen, and unforeseen” in studying race and culture in education science; (3) Developed the Teachers Race Talk Survey, one of the first survey instruments focused on teachers’ reported beliefs about race and discourse; and (4) Advanced stronger conceptual and definitional work of urban education. Professor Milner is President-Elect of the American Educational Research Association, the largest educational research organization in the world. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Education and a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association. His work has appeared in numerous journals, and he has published seven books. His most recent books include: Start Where You Are But don’t Stay There: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today’s Classrooms (Harvard Education Press, 2010 and 2020, Second Edition); Rac(e)ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms (Harvard Education Press, 2015); and These Kids Are Out of Control: Why We Must Reimagine Classroom Management for Equity (Corwin Press, 2018).
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021
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