Adam Gamoran: Biographical Sketch

Adam Gamoran is professor of sociology and educational policy studies and director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has an international reputation as a scholar who does research and writing at the intersection of society/institutions and education, particularly science and mathematics education. Dr. Gamoran is very respected for his knowledge of institutional structures and organizational patterns that deny access to education to under represented groups in our society. A member of the National Academy of Education, his research focuses on inequality in education, resource allocation in school systems, and school reform. He is the lead author of Transforming teaching in math and science: How schools and districts can support change, which examines the organizational context of school reform for mathematics and science at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. He has also co-edited three books, including (with Andrew Porter) Methodological advances in cross-national surveys of educational achievement. He received his Ph.D. in education from the University of Chicago.