Advisory Board
Parker J. Palmer, PhD.
Parker Palmer is a highly respected writer, lecturer, teacher, and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality, and social change. He serves as Senior Associate of the American Association of Higher Education, and Senior Advisor to the Fetzer Institute. He is the founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal. Dr. Palmer has published a dozen poems, more than one hundred essays, and seven books, including several best-selling and award-winning titles: A Hidden Wholeness, Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, The Active Life, To Know as We Are Known, The Company of Strangers, and The Promise of Paradox. Dr. Palmer's work has been recognized with eight honorary doctorates, two Distinguished Achievement Awards from the National Educational Press Association, and major grants from the Danforth Foundation, the Lilly Endowment, and the Fetzer Institute. Dr. Palmer received his PhD. in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. Click here for more on Parker Palmer.
Adele Diamond, PhD.
Adele Diamond is the Canada Research Chair Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia. Her work integrates developmental, cognitive, neuroscience, and molecular genetic approaches to examine fundamental questions about the development of cognitive control abilities. Her recent work, including a paper in the journal, Science, is affecting early education practices around the world. She is one of the founders of the field of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, and is one of the world's leading researchers on the development of cognitive functions. Adele Diamond received her BA from Swarthmore College Phi Beta Kappa in Sociology-Anthropology and Psychology, her PhD from Harvard in Developmental Psychology, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale in Neuroanatomy. She received a YWCA Woman of Distinction Award in 2009, and in 2001 was named one of the 2000 Outstanding Women of the 20th Century. Click here for more on Adele Diamond.
Corrine Taylor, PhD.
Corrine Taylor is the Director of the Quantitative Reasoning Program at Wellesley College. She teaches courses in quantitative reasoning, social science data analysis, statistical analysis of education issues, microeconomics, the economics of education, and public economics. Her research focuses on the economics of education, in particular, elementary and secondary school finance. She has presented her research at conferences of the American Economic Association, the National Tax Association, and the American Education Finance Association (AEFA) and was awarded the AEFA's Jean Flanigan Outstanding Dissertation Award for her work on K-12 school finance. She has also served as the president of the National Numeracy Network. She has taught critical analysis and basic quantitative analysis as components of Wellesley's summer bridge program "Pathways" which she helped develop. Professor Taylor has led workshops, given invited lectures, and served as a consultant at other colleges, universities, and schools that are developing QR initiatives. Click here for more on QR and Corrine Taylor.
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