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Elaine Simon
Co-Director Urban Studies Program
University of Pennsylvania
esimon@sas.upenn.edu
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Elaine Simon is an anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research and evaluation in the fields of education, employment and training, and community development. She is Co-Director of Urban Studies in the School of Arts and Sciences and adjunct Associate Professor of Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Elaine's perspective on education is informed by her background in urban studies and community development. She studied the early 1990s Chicago education reform that devolved power to communities and parents and later the ambitious systemic school reform effort in Philadelphia. Her current research, which focuses on high schools and community organizing for school reform, benefits from her broad perspective on urban life and urban school reform.
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Selected Research for Action projects:
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Selected Publications:
- Gold, E., Simon, E., Cucchiara, M., Mitchell, C. A., & Riffer, M. (2007, Dec). Philadelphia Story: Building Civic Capacity for School Reform in a Privatizing System. Philadelphia: Research for Action.
- Simon, E. & Gold, E. (2005, Apr 15). Reframing Accountability for Urban Schools: Efforts from the Ground Up to Improve Public Education.Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Educational Background:
Ph.D.: Temple University, Anthropology and Urban Studies
M.S.: University of Pennsylvania, Education
B.A.: University of Pittsburgh, English and Education
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