Two Johns Hopkins Educational Researchers Honored

Office of News and Information - Johns Hopkins University - 901 South Bond Street, Suite 540 - Baltimore, Maryland 21231 - Phone: 443-287-9960 | Fax: 443-287-9920 Johns Hopkins University research scientists Joyce Epstein and James McPartland are among 44 scholars who were recently named American Educational Research Association Fellows. The fellows were nominated by their peers in recognition of their exceptional scientific or scholarly contributions to education research or significant contributions to the field through the development of research opportunities and settings. The AERA Fellows are known both nationally and internationally. Through the fellows program, the association aims to convey its commitment to excellence in research and to underscore to new scholars the importance of sustained research contributions in the field. The fellows were inducted today at the association's 90th Annual Meeting in San Diego. James M. McPartland is director of the Center for Social Organization of Schools and a research professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins. Beginning with his participation in the influential 1964 Equality of Education Opportunities (known as the Coleman Report), he has conducted survey research and experimental studies of variations in school effectiveness for low-income and minority students.