Valerie Lee, professor of education and faculty associate at the Institute for Social Research (ISR), recently was elected to the National Academy of Education (NAEd), which consists of U.S. members and foreign associates elected on the basis of outstanding scholarship or contributions to education.

U-M ranks third among institutions in the number of NAEd members.

School of Education (SoE) Dean and NAEd member Deborah Loewenberg Ball commented on Lee’s accomplishments as a sociologist of education. “It is not the sheer volume of Valerie Lee’s work — which is extensive — that distinguishes her record; it is her programmatic approach to studying persistent disparities in educational opportunity and outcomes and how different organizational structures, such as school size, affect those gaps.”

NAEd President Susan Fuhrman last week announced 10 education leaders were elected to membership in NAEd for their pioneering efforts in educational research and policy development.

Nominations are submitted by individual members once a year for review and consideration by the entire membership. “The newly elected members are pre-eminent leaders in their respective areas of educational research, and they have had extraordinary impact on education in the U.S. and abroad,” Fuhrman says.

Founded in 1965 to advance the highest quality educational research and its use in policy formation and practice, NAEd is an honorary society that currently has 187 members and 18 foreign associates. Members are elected on the basis of outstanding scholarship or contributions to education, and over the years its members have included such luminaries as anthropologist Margaret Mead and psychologist Jean Piaget.

Current U-M members are:

• Deborah Loewenberg Ball, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and William H. Payne Collegiate Professor of Education, professor of education and dean, SoE.

• Hyman Bass, the Samuel Eilenberg Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics Education, Roger C. Lyndon Collegiate Professor of Mathematics and professor of mathematics, LSA; and professor of education, SoE.

• David Cohen, the John Dewey Collegiate Professor of Education, SoE; the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and professor of public policy, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

• Jacquelynne Eccles, professor, Department of Psychology, LSA; professor, SoE; and senior research scientist at the Institute for Research on Women & Gender and the Research Center for Group Dynamics.

• Magdalene Lampert, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Education and professor of education, SoE.

• Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Jean and Charles R. Walgreen Jr. Professor of Reading and Literacy, and professor of education and associate dean for academic affairs, SoE.

• Brian Rowan, the Burke A. Hinsdale Collegiate Professor of Education and professor of education, SoE; professor of sociology, LSA; and research professor, Survey Research Center, ISR.

• Maris Vinovskis, the A.M. and H.P. Bentley Professor of History, professor of history, LSA; professor of public policy, Ford School; research professor, Center for Political Studies, ISR.