Adam Gamoran

Research interests include inequality in education and school reform, specifically: organization, tracking, stratification and resource allocation in school systems. Became president of the William T. Grant Foundation on September 1, 2013.  Was previously the John D. MacArthur Professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  Led the Wisconsin Center for Education Research for nine years, the nation's oldest and largest university-based education research center, with over 450 employees and an annual budget that exceeds $45 million. Appointed by President Obama to the National Board for Education Sciences in 2010. Chaired the Independent Advisory Panel of the National Assessment of Career and Technical Education for the U.S. Department of Education. Past member of the National Research Council's Board on Science Education (BOSE) and Board on International Comparative Studies of Education (BICSE). In 2011, led a BOSE committee that produced the widely read report, Successful K-12 STEM Education: Identifying Effective Approaches in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Edited the 2007 book Standards-Based Reform and the Poverty Gap: Lessons for No Child Left Behind and published in academic journals including the American Sociological Review, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Sociology of Education. Member of the National Academy of Education.