David L. Kirp

David L. Kirp
Kirp at a signing for Kids First at Union City High School in Union City, New Jersey, April 14, 2011.
Occupation	Author, columnist, University professor, Obama Presidential Transition Team
Language	English
Nationality	American
Genres	Non-fiction
Subjects	Social science
Notable work(s)	Kids First: Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives and America's Future (2011)
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David L. Kirp, is a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley,^[1] former member of the Barack Obama Presidential Transition Team and author. His research has explored a wide range of social policy domains, including primary and higher education, race and gender equality, affordable housing, and the AIDS crisis. His work has attracted scholarly, policy activist, and popular audiences. He has written some sixteen books, as well as many articles that have appeared in leading policy-focused social science journals and law reviews. His research has been translated into numerous foreign languages, including Chinese (classical and simplified), Japanese and Ukrainian. Some of books include Gender Justice (University of Chicago Press 1986),^[2] Kids First: Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives (Public Affairs 2011), The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics (Harvard 2007), and Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (Harvard 2003).

Early life

Kirp graduated from Amherst College in 1965. He later graduated from Harvard Law School.^[3]

Career

A former newspaper editor and syndicated columnist, David Kirp contributes to leading national print media outlets, including The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, the American Prospect and The Nation, and appears as a policy expert on nationally broadcast radio and televisions programs. He has delivered lectures and keynote speeches around the world, at universities including Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Glasgow, Taipei, Melbourne, Trento, Monterey, and Ben Gurion. He is a recipient of Berkeley's 1982 Distinguished Teaching Award.^[4]

David Kirp founded the Harvard Center on Law and Education, a national law reform organization that promotes equality of educational opportunity. He 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. In 2008 he served on the Presidential Transition Team, working on education policy issues. He has consulted with many nonprofit groups and public agencies in the United States and abroad.

References

1. ^ David L. Kirp: In the News, Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, accessed April 18, 2011.
2. ^ Schwarzschild, Maimon (15 June 1986). "Liberty and Autonomy for All". The New York Times: p. 27. http://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/15/books/liberty-and-autonomy-for-all.html. Retrieved 5 March 2011. 
3. ^ Sanderson, Catherine. "The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics", Amherst College, 2007, accessed April 18, 2011.
4. ^ Distinguished Teaching Award Recipients, Office of Educational Development, University of California, Berkeley, accessed April 18, 2011.

External links

• David Kirp AtGoogleTalks.

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