David Kirp is a professor at the

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at the

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, a member of the

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, a contributing writer to ''

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'' and a senior scholar at the Learning Policy Institute, a "think-and-do" tank. He is a Member of the

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and the National Academy of Education. In his seventeen books and hundreds of articles, he has concentrated on pivotal education and youth issues from cradle to college and career.

Education

Kirp graduated from

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and

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United ...

Career

A former newspaper editor and syndicated columnist, David Kirp contributes to leading national print media outlets, including ''The New York Times'', ''

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'', the American Prospect and ''

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'', and appears as a policy expert on nationally broadcast radio and televisions programs. Kirp is a recipient of Berkeley's 1982 Distinguished Teaching Award. David Kirp founded the Harvard Center on Law and Education, a national law reform organization that promotes equality of educational opportunity. He was a trustee of Amherst College and has served on numerous nonprofit boards, including Experience Corps, Friends of the Children, the Coro Leadership Center of San Francisco and the ACLU of Northern California. He served on President Barack Obama's transition team, where he drafted policy agendas for early education and community schools. He has consulted with many nonprofit groups and public agencies in the United States and abroad.

Works

Among Kirp's books are ''The Sandbox Investment: The Universal Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics'' and ''Shakespeare, Einstein and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education''. ''The College Dropout Scandal'' focuses on the under-appreciated fact that half of undergraduates who enroll in public universities fail to graduate and shows, through narratives about colleges that buck this trend, what can be done to change the arc of students' lives. ''Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools'' details how a poor, Latino school district became a national model.

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