Feb 23, 2012 | 03:03
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Jan 05, 2012
Two faculty named among nation's most influential education scholars
Professors Gary Orfield and Eva Baker of the Graduate School of Education & Information Studies (GSE&IS) have been named among the nation’s most influential education scholars by the American Enterprise Institute, a public policy institute based in Washington, D.C.
The annual rankings recognize university-based academics who are contributing most substantially to public debate about schools and schooling. Criteria include the scholars' presence in Google searches, newspaper articles, blogs and other media, citations for their books and research papers, and other evidence of their public "footprint."
Among the list of 121 scholars is Orfield, who is also on faculty in UCLA’s School of Law, the Luskin School of Public Affairs and the Department of Political Science as well as co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles. Baker is Distinguished Professor at GSE&IS in the divisions of Psychological Studies in Education and Social Research Methodology. She is director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Evaluation and the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, a competitively awarded national institution funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
The American Enterprise Institute conducts the annual rankings "to push universities to encourage scholars to get their ideas and research to a lay audience and policymakers," according to its website.
