Jeannie Oakes

Jeannie Oakes is senior policy fellow at the Learning Policy Institute; Presidential Professor of Education Equity Emeritus at UCLA; and the former director of education at the Ford Foundation. She is past president of the American Educational Research Association and a member of the National Academy of Education. Oakes’s research examines the effect of social policies on the education of low-income students of color and also investigates equity-minded reform. Her books include Keeping Track: How Schools Structure Inequality, Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform, Learning Power, and Teaching to Change the World.