RESEARCH ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
 Dr. A. Gary Dworkin is Professor in the Department of Sociology at the
University of Houston. Dr. Dworkin’s research covers sociology of
education public school teacher burnout, student dropout behavior,
racial and ethnic relations, applied sociology, and program evaluation.
Dr. Dworkin has published some 70 articles and chapters and seven
books, including Giving Up on School (Corwin/Sage, 1991, with Margaret
D. LeCompte) and a third edition of his race, ethnic, and gender
relations’ text,
The Minority Report (Wadsworth-Harcourt Brace, with Rosalind J.
Dworkin) published in 1999. Visit website
 Dr. Charles Hirschman is Boeing International Professor in the Department
of Sociology at the University of Washington. He is a fellow of
the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Hirschman is currently engaged
in the study of race and ethnic patterns in the transition from
high school to college in Washington State. He is the co-editor
of the Handbook of International Migration: The American Experience
and has authored more than 90 published articles and chapters.
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 Dr. Paul A. Jargowsky is Associate Professor
of Political Economy at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).
Current areas of research include racial and economic segregation,
the impacts of economic and spatial inequality, and the causes
and consequences of exclusionary suburban development patterns..
His book, Poverty and Place: Ghettos, Barrios, and the American
City (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1997), is a comprehensive
examination of poverty at the neighborhood level in U.S. metropolitan
areas between 1970 and 1990. The Urban Affairs Association named
Poverty and Place the "Best Book in Urban Affairs Published in 1997
or 1998." Jargowsky
has also been involved in policy development at both the state
and federal levels, and served as a consultant and expert witness
in fair housing and school desegregation litigation. Current areas
of research include racial and economic segregation, the impacts
of economic and spatial inequality, and the causes and consequences
of exclusionary suburban development patterns. Visit website
 Dr. Steve H. Murdock is Director of the Institute for Demographic and Socioeconomic
Research at UTSA. He is also Chief Demographer for the Texas State
Data Center. Formerly Professor and Chair of the Department of Rural Sociology
and a Regents Professor at Texas A&M University. Murdock has authored
ten books and more than 100 articles and technical monographs on
the implications of current and future demographic, socioeconomic and natural
resource change. Murdock was named as one of the 50 most influential Texans
by Texas Business. His most recent book is: The Texas Challenge: Population
Change and the Future of Texas.
 Dr. Gary Orfield is a
Professor at UCLA's
Graduate School of Education and Co-Director of The Civil Rights
Project at UCLA. He is also
Professor of Education & Social
Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is the
Co-Founder and Director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard.
Recent books include: Dropouts in America: Confronting the
Graduation Rate Crisis (Editor), Racial Inequity in Special
Education (with D. Losen), and Dismantling Desegregation
(with Susan Eaton).
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 Dr. Pedro Reyes is Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic
Planning and Assessment and Professor of Educational Administration
at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests focus
on three interrelated themes 1) the role of leadership in student
learning; 2) the social processes that relate to student learning;
and 3) the conditions that foster high academic success for children
in high-poverty schools. Visit website
 Dr. Richard A. Tapia is a mathematician and professor in
the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice
University in Houston, Texas. He is internationally known for his
research in the computational and mathematical sciences and is
a national leader in education and outreach programs. Tapia's current
Rice positions are Noah Harding Professor of Computational and
Applied Mathematics; Associate Director of Graduate Studies, Office
of Research and Graduate Studies; and Director of the Center for
Excellence and Equity in Education. Tapia has authored or co-authored
two books and over 80 mathematical research papers. He has delivered
numerous invited addresses at national and international mathematical
conferences and serves on several national advisory boards. Visit
website
 Dr. Gerald Torres, Esq. is H.O. Head Centennial Professor of Real Property
Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of
Texas School of Law. He has written and lectured extensively on
the intersection of race and politics and has recently co-authored
a book, The Miner's Canary, on these topics. He has also been involved
in the debate over the management and legal protection of Native
American land and religion, and more recently with school reform
and planning for diversity in the wake of the elimination of affirmative
action in Texas. He was a leader in the development of the field
of Agricultural Law and active in reforming farm finance law in
Minnesota. He received his J.D. from Yale and his LL.M. from the
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Visit website
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