Ph.D., University of California–Los Angeles.
Associate Dean, Graduate School of Education, University of California–Los Angeles.
Author, Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality (1985) and Multiplying Inequalities: The Effects of Race, Social Class, and Tracking on Opportunities to Learn Mathematics and Science (1990); Co-Editor, Creating New Educational Communities (1995) and Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform (2000).