Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay There: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today's Classrooms Tapa blanda - 2010

H. Richard Milner IV is associate professor of education and a founding director of the graduate program Learning, Diversity, and Urban Studies in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University. Professor Milner is also a faculty affiliate in education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. A former high school teacher, Milner has served as a visiting professor in urban education at the University of Texas-Austin and was named a visiting lecturer in the graduate program of education at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he taught in the Language, Culture and Teaching program. His teaching, research, and policy interests concern urban education, teacher education, English education, and the sociology of education. Professor Milner's research and scholarly contributions have been recognized with an Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association and the Carl A. Grant Multicultural Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education. He is the incoming senior editor of the journal Urban Education. Professor Milner has also edited several books, including Race, Ethnicity, and Education (coedited with E. Wayne Ross, 2006), Diversity and Education: Teachers, Teaching, and Teacher Education (2009), and Culture, Curriculum, and Identity in Education (2010). Professor Milner consults with schools and districts concerning diversity and opportunity both domestically and internationally.