Ed.D., Harvard University.
Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Urban Educational Leadership, Georgia State University; Founder and Director, Center for Urban Educational Excellence; Senior Research Associate, Institute for Urban Research, Morgan State University.
Author, Other People's Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom (1995); Co-Editor, The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African American Children (1998) and The Skin That I Speak: Language, Culture, and Identity (in press).