The Power of Public Scholarship to Transform Policy and Practice: Five Award-Winning Books

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Five recent Grawemeyer Award winners articulate their theories of scholarship-in-action and discuss their experiences working with policymakers and practitioners to use their work to prompt educational change. The University of Louisville’s prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Education, celebrating its 30th anniversary, recognizes annually a work most likely to have an impact on practice worldwide. Each award-winning work provides a theoretical perspective, grounded in empirical evidence, and offers implications for reform in districts, schools, teacher education, and/or professional development. The session will be facilitated by an educational journalist who will frame questions that engage the scholars in discussing the impact of both their work and the award on their efforts to bridge research to policy and practice in communities and schools.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chairs

• Ann E. Larson, University of Louisville

• Valerie Strauss, Washington Post

Participants

• Linda Darling-Hammond, Stanford University

• Michael Fullan, OISE/University of Toronto

• Andy Hargreaves, Boston College

• Diane Ravitch, New York University