January 2008

RUSSELL W. RUMBERGER

Gevirtz Graduate School of Education Voice: (805) 893-3385

University of California FAX: (805) 893-7264

Santa Barbara, CA 93106 Email: russ@education.ucsb.edu

Web site: http://education.ucsb.edu/rumberger/

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

School Dropouts and Student Mobility

Ethnic and Language Minority Student Achievement

Education and Labor Markets

Economics of Education

Education Policy

Survey Design and Large-scale Data Analysis

EDUCATION

B.S. Electrical Engineering (Computer Systems)

Carnegie-Mellon University, May 1971

M.A. Economics

Stanford University, June 1978

Ph.D. Education (Administration and Policy Analysis/Economics of Education)

Stanford University, August 1978

Thesis Overeducation in the U.S. Labor Market

Advisors: Henry Levin, Martin Carnoy, Lewis Mayhew

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

October 1998- Director, Linguistic Minority Research Institute

present University of California

July 1993- Professor of Education

present University of California, Santa Barbara

October 1999 Visting Scholar, Peking University, China

February 1997- Visiting Scholar, Monash University, Australia

March 1997 Visiting Scholar, Australian Council for Educational Research

April 1987- Associate Professor of Education

June 1993 University of California, Santa Barbara

July 1991- Director, Educational Leadership Institute

July 1992 University of California

September 1988- Program Leader, Educational Policy and Organization

June 1991 Department of Education, UC Santa Barbara

April 1990- Visiting Research Fellow

August 1990 Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh

March 1983- Senior Research Associate

March 1987 School of Education, Stanford University

April 1986- Acting Associate Professor of Education , Stanford University

August 1986 (nominated for School's Outstanding Teacher Award)

March 1981- Research Associate

February 1983 School of Education, Stanford University

January 1979- Senior Research Associate

December 1980 Center for Human Resource Research, Ohio State University

September 1978- Consultant

December 1978 International Institute for Educational, UNESCO, Paris Planning, UNESCO, Paris

September 1974- Research Associate

June 1978 Center for Economic Studies, Palo Alto, California

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Student’s Motivation to Learn (contributor). Committee on Increasing High School Student’s Engagement and Motivation to Learn, National Research Council. Washington, D.C. The National Academy Press, 2003.

The Future Impact of Technology on Work and Education (editor, with Gerald Burke). Philadelphia: Falmer Press, 1987.

A New Social Contract: The Economy and Government After Reagan (with Martin Carnoy and Derek Shearer). New York: Harper and Row, 1983.

Overeducation in the U.S. Labor Market. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1981.

MONOGRAPHS:

Preschool Participation and the Cognitive and Social Development of Language Minority Students (with Loan Tran). Los Angeles: National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing, UCLA and Santa Barbara: UC Linguistic Minority Research Institute, January 2006. Available at: http://lmri.ucsb.edu/publications/06_rumberger-tran.pdf.

Understanding and Addressing the Latino Achievement Gap in California (with Brenda Arellano). Berkeley: University of California, California Policy Research Center, Latino Policy Institute, 2004. Available at: http://lmri.ucsb.edu/publications/04_rumberger-arellano.pdf.

Final Report (member). National Institute of Statistical Sciences/Education Statistics Services Institute Task Force on Graduation, Completion, and Dropout Indicators. Washington, D.C.: National Center for Education Statistics, 2004. Available at: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2005/2005105.pdf.

Staying on at School: Improving Student Retention in Australia (with Stephen Lamb, Anne Walstab, Richard Teese, and Margaret Vickers). Center for Post-compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Melbourne, August 2004.

School Performance in Australia: Resuls from Analyses of School Effectiveness (with Stephen Lamb, David Jesson, and Richard Tesse). Center for Post-compulsory Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Melbourne, August 2004.

The Inequitable Treatment of English Learners in California’s Public Schools, Report prepared for the lawsuit, Williams v. State of California, April 2003. Available at: http://idea.gseis.ucla.edu/publications/williams.

Student Mobility and Academic Achievement. ERIC Digest. Champaign, IL: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education, June 2002.

Student Mobility. The Informed Educator Series. Arlington, VA: Educational Research Service, May 2001.

The Educational Consequences of Mobility for California Students and Schools (with Katherine A. Larson, Gregory J. Palardy, and Robert K. Ream). Research Series 99-2. Berkeley, CA: Policy Analysis for California Education, March 1999.

The Hazards of Changing Schools for California Latino Adolescents (with Katherine A. Larson, Gregory J. Palardy, Robert K. Ream, and Nina C. Schleicher). CLPP Policy Report. University of California, Berkeley: Chicano/Latino Policy Project, October 1998.

Capturing Latino Students in the Academic Pipeline (with Patricia Gándara, Hugh Mehan, and Katherine Larson). CLPP Policy Report. University of California, Berkeley: Chicano/Latino Policy Project, May 1998.

Staying in School: A Technical Report of Three Dropout Prevention Projects for Middle School Students with Learning and Emotional Disabilities (co-author). Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota, December 1995.

PACT Manual: Parent and Community Teams for School Success (with Katherine Larson). Institute on Community Integration, University of Minnesota, December 1995.

Engaging Diverse Students: What Superintendents Can Do (principle author). Interim Report. Oakland, CA: Educational Leadership Institute, University of California, January 1993.

California's Worforce for the Year 2000: Improving Productivity by Expanding Opportunities for the Education and Training of Underserved Youth and Adults (member of the task force). Report of the California Workforce Literacy Task Force. Sacramento: California Legislature, November, 1990.

Computers in Small Businesses (with Henry M. Levin). Washington, D.C.: National Federation of Small Businesses, September 1986.

Demystifying High Technology. Columbus: The National Center for Research in Vocational Education, 1984.

Findings of the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Americans, 1979 (co-author). Youth Knowledge Development Report 2.7. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980.

Estudio de la Educacion Segundaria y Superior en El Salvador, Las Tendencias en los Requerimientos de Mano de Obra con Educacion Secundaria y Superior, y las Implicaciones para la Politica de Educredito (contributor). Final report for IDB project on education and manpower needs in El Salvador. Palo Alto, Ca.: Center for Economic Studies, 1977.

Education and Public Sector Employment (with M. Carnoy and R. Girling). Final report for NIE project on educational requirements for the public sector. Palo Alto, Ca.: Center for Economic Studies, 1976.

Financing Postsecondary Education in California (co-author). Report prepared for the Sloan Foundation project on higher education finance. Stanford, Ca.: School of Education, Stanford University, June 1974.

ARTICLES IN BOOKS AND JOURNALS:

“Teacher Effectiveness in First Grade: The Importance of Background: Qualifications, Attitudes, and Instructional Practices for Student Learning.” (with Gregory J. Palardy). Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (in press).

“Linking student engagement, peer social capital, and school dropout among Mexican American and non-Latino white students.” (with Robert K. Ream). Sociology of Education (in press).

“Understanding and Addressing the California Latino Achievement Gap in Early Elementary School” (with Brenda Arellano). In Mexicans in California: Transformations and Challenges, edited by Patricia Zavella and Ramon Gutiérrez. Champagne, IL:  University of Illinois Press (in press)

“Immigration, Language, and Education: How Does Language Policy Structure Opportunity?” (with Patricia Gándara). In Education of Immigrant Youth: The Role of Institutions and Agency, edited by Jennifer Holdaway (in press).

“Can NCLB Improve High School Graduation Rates?” In The NCLB Challenge: Achieving Accountability, Equity, and School Reform, edited by Gail Sunderman. New York: Corwin Press, 2008.

“Resource Needs for Educating Linguistic Minority Students” (with Patricia Gándara). In Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy, edited by Helen F. Ladd and Edward B. Fiske, pp. 591-611. New York, Routledge, 2008).

“Understanding and Addressing the Education Achievement Gap in the United States during the First Four years of School” (with Brenda Arellano). In International studies in educational inequaltiy, theory, and policy. Volume 3, Inequality: Educational theory and public policy, edited by Richard Teese, Stephen Lamb, & M. Duru-Belat, pp.129-149. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2007.

“Parsing the Data on Student Achievement in High Poverty Schools.” North Carolina Law Review, 85 (June 2007): 101-119.

“How much is too much? The influence of preschool centers on children's social and cognitive development” (with Susanna Loeb, Margaret Bridges, Daphna Bassok, and Bruce Fuller). Economics of Education Review 26 (February 2007): 52-66.

“Dropouts.” In The Praeger Handbook of American High Schools, edited by Kathryn M. Borman, Spencer E. Cahill, and Bridget A. Cotner, p. 131-138. Westport, CT: Preager Publishers, 2007.

“Does Segregation Still Matter? The Impact of Student Composition on Academic Achievement in High School” (with Gregory J. Palardy). Teachers College Record, 107 (Spring 2005), 1999-2045.

“Does Resegregation Matter? The Impact of Student Composition on Academic Achievement in Southern High Schools” (with Gregory J. Palardy). In How Brown Lost Its Way: School Sesegregation in the South, edited by Jack Boger and Gary Orfield, pp. 127-147. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

“Test Scores, Dropout Rates, and Transfer Rates As Alternative Indicators of High School Performance” (with Gregory Palardy). American Educational Research Journal, 41 (Spring 2005): 3-42.

“Why Students Drop Out of School.” In Dropouts in America: Confronting the Crisis, edited by Gary Orfield, pp. 131-155. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2004.

“What Can be Done to Reduce School Dropouts.” In Dropouts in America: Confronting the Crisis, edited by Gary Orfield, pp. 243-254. Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2004.

“Seeking Equity in the Education of California’s English learners” (with Patricia Gándara). Teachers College Record, 106 (October 2004): 2032-2056.

“Multilevel Models for School Effectiveness Research” (with Gregory Palardy). In Handbook of Quantitative Methodology for the Social Sciences, edited by David Kaplan, pp. 235-258. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2004.

“School Completion/School Achievement as Outcomes of Early Childhood Development” In: Tremblay RE, Barr RG, Peters RDeV, eds. Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development [online]. Montreal, Quebec: Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development; 2004:1-5. Available at: http://www.excellence-earlychildhood.ca/documents/RumbergerANGxp.pdf . Accessed February 6, 2004.

“The Advantages of Longitudinal Design,” In Rigorous Designs to Evaluate Technology Effects, Volume 1, edited by Geneva Haertel and Barbara Means, pp. 205-229. New York: Teachers College Press, 2003.

“English Learners in California schools: Unequal resources, unequal outcomes” (with Patricia Gándara, Julie Maxwell-Jolly, & Rebecca Callahan). Education Policy Analysis Archives, 11, Retrieved October 7, 2003 from http: //epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v11n36/.

“The Early Employment and Further Education Experiences of High School Dropouts: A Comparative Study of the United States and Australia” (with Stephen P. Lamb). Economics of Education Review, 22 (2003): 353-356.

“The Causes and Consequences of Student Mobility.” Journal of Negro Education, 72 (2003): 6-21.

“What Can be Done to Prevent and Assist School Dropouts?” In Intervention with children and adolescents: An interdisciplinary perspective, edited by Paula Allen-Meares & Mark W. Fraser, pp. 311-334. New York: Allyn & Bacon, 2003.

“Student mobility.” In Encyclopedia of Education, 2nd edition, edited by James Guthrie. New York: Macmillan, 2002.

“Chicano Dropouts: An Update of Research and Policy Issues” (with Gloria Rodriguez). In Chicano school failure and success: Research and policy agendas for the New Millenium, 2^nd edition, edited by Richard R. Valencia, pp. 114-146. New York: Falmer Press, 2002.

“The Schooling of English Learners” (with Patricia Gándara). In Crucial Issues in California Education, edited by Elizabeth Burr, Gerald Hayward, and Michael Kirst, pp. 23-44. Berkeley: Policy Analysis for California Education, 2000

“The Distribution of Dropout and Turnover Rates among Urban and Suburban High Schools” (with Scott L. Thomas). Sociology of Education, 73 (January 2000): 39-67.

“Student Mobility and and the Increased risk of High School Dropout” (with Katherine A. Larson). American Journal of Education, 107 (November 1998): 1-35.

“The Growing Imbalance between the Economic and Social Goals of Education in the United States,” In Different Drums, One Beat? Economic and Social Goals in Education and Training, edited by Fran Ferrier and Damon Anderson, pp. 7-19. Leabrook, Australia: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (1998).

“Research, Decision Making and Action in Other Functional Areas of Government, and Internationally,” In Research and VET Decision-Making: February 1997 Symposium, edited by Chris Selby Smith, pp. 143-144. Melbourne, Australia: Centre for the Economics of Education and Training, Monash University, 1998.

“Toward Explaining Differences in Educational Achievement Among Mexican-American Language Minority Students” (with Katherine A. Larson). Sociology of Education 71 (January 1998): 69-93.

"Dropping Out of Middle School: A Mulitlevel Analysis of Students and Schools." American Educational Research Journal 32 (Fall 1995): 583-625.

"Doubling School Success in Highest-Risk Latino Youth: Results from a Middle School Intervention Study (with Katherine Larson)." In Changing Schools for Changing Students, edited by Reynaldo F. Macias and Reyna G. Garcia Ramos, pp. 157-179. Santa Barbara, California: Linguistic Minority Research Institute, University of California, 1995.

"Labor Market Outcomes as Indicators of Education Performance." In Making Education Count: Developing and Using International Indicators, edited by Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, pp. 265-286. Paris: Centre for Educational Research and Innovation, OECD, 1994.

"Keeping High-Risk Chicano Students in School: Lessons from a Los Angeles Middle School Dropout Prevention Program" (with Katherine A. Larson). In Educational Reforms for At-Risk Students, edited by Robert J. Rossi, pp. 141-162. New York: Teachers College Press, 1994.

"Technological Change and the Demand for Educated Labor," In International Encyclopedia of Edition, 2nd edition, edited by Torsten Husen and T.N. Postlethwaite, pp. 6256-6261. New York: Pergamon Press, 1994. Reprinted in the International Encyclopedia of Economcs of Edition, 2nd edition, edited by Martin Carnoy (1995).

"The Economic Returns to College Major, Quality, and Performance: A Multilevel Analysis of Recent Graduates" (with Scott Thomas). Economics of Education Review 12 (1993): 1-19. Reprinted in The Economics of Higher Education, edited by Clive R. Belfield and Henry M. Levin. Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.

"Education and Training for 16-18 Year Olds in the UK and the USA," (with David Raffe). Oxford Studies in Comparative Education 2 (1992): 135-157. Reprinted in Something Borrowed, Something Learned? The Transatlantic Market in Education and Training Reform, edited by David Finegold, Laurel McFarland, and William Richardson, pp.125-147. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1993.

"The Impact of Racial and Ethnic Segregation on the Achievement Gap in California High Schools" (with J. Doug Willms). Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 14 (Winter 1992): 377-396.

"The University of California Educational Leadership Institute: A New Strategy for Linking Research and Practice," Educational Researcher 21 (August-September 1992): 20-24.

"The Changing Nature of Work," In Encyclopedia of Educational Research, 6th edition, edited by Marvin C. Alkin, pp. 152-158. New York: Macmillan, 1992.

"Chicano Dropouts: Research and Policy Isssues," In Chicano School Failure and Success: Research and Policy Agendas for the 1990s, edited by Richard R. Valencia, pp. 64-89. New York: Falmer Press, 1991.

"The Impact of Surplus Schooling on Worker Productivity," (with Henry M. Levin and Mun C. Tsang) Industrial Relations 30 (Spring 1991): 209-228.

"Family Influences on Dropout Behavior in One California High School (with R. Ghatak, G. Poulos, P. Ritter, and S. Dornbusch) Sociology of Education 63 (October 1990): 283-299.