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Claude Goldenberg, a native of Argentina, is a Professor of Education, Stanford University. He received his A.B. from Princeton University and M.A. (1982) and Ph.D. (1984) degrees from the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Los Angeles. He has taught junior high school in San Antonio, TX, and first grade in a bilingual elementary school in the Los Angeles area. In 1986-88 he was a National Academy of Education Spencer fellow. He received a Research Recognition Award from the University of California Office of the President in 1992 for his work on "instructional conversations" in classrooms serving predominantly Spanish-speaking students. In 1993 he received (with Ronald Gallimore) the Albert J. Harris Award from the International Reading Association for their article describing improvements in early Spanish literacy instruction and achievement at an elementary school where Goldenberg taught first grade following completion of his doctorate. Goldenberg is currently involved in a number of ongoing research projects focusing on Latino children's academic development, home-school connections to improve achievement, home and school factors in Latino children's academic achievement, and the processes and dynamics of change at individual school sites. His current research is supported by the Spencer Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. His previous research has been supported by these sources and by the University of California Office of the President and the University of California Linguistic Minority Research Institute. Goldenberg was on the National Research Council's Head Start Research Roundtable and is currently on the Council's Committee on the Prevention of Early Reading Difficulties in Young Children. He has been on the editorial boards of Language Arts, The Elementary School Journal, and Literacy, Teaching and Learning. Goldenberg's publications have appeared in the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, American Journal of Education, The Reading Teacher, Language Arts, Educational Leadership, The Elementary School Journal and other professional books and journals. In 1997 he produced Settings for Change, a video describing a successful 5-year project to improve teaching and learning in a predominantly Hispanic school. |
