School Matters

The Authors: RoSusan D. Bartee is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi. Dr. Bartee's research interests are K-12 education leadership, organizational culture and social contexts of schools, and university-school partnerships. She teaches graduate courses in educational leadership, research methods, and cultural contexts of education. Dr. Bartee previously served as the Associate Director at the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) in Washington, DC for the Reading First Teacher Education Network (RFTEN), a $4.5 million dollar federal grant focused on restructuring teacher education programs using evidence-based research. Dr. Bartee received her Ph.D. in educational policy studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, her M.A. in liberal studies from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and a B.A. in English from Tougaloo College in Jackson, Mississippi. M. Christopher Brown II is Professor and Dean of the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He previously served as Vice President for Programs and Administration at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE), Director of Social Justice and Professional Development for the American Educational Research Association (AERA), as well as Executive Director and Chief Research Scientist of the Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute of the United Negro College Fund. Dr. Brown has held faculty appointments at The Pennsylvania State University, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.