Charles M. Payne
Charles M. Payne | |
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Born | March 14, 1948 |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Academic |
Charles M. Payne, Jr. (born March 14, 1948) is an American academic whose areas of study include civil rights activism, urban education reform, social inequality, and modern
Education and career
Charles Payne received a Bachelor's Degree in Afro-American studies from Syracuse University in 1970 and a Ph.D in sociology from Northwestern University in 1976.[2] He has held professorial positions and endowed chairs at several American institutions, among them Southern University, Williams College, Haverford College, Northwestern, Duke University, where he held the Sally Dalton Robinson Chair for Teaching Excellence, and the University of Chicago (Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration).[3]
Payne has also been active in the creation and direction of several organizations intended to address issues of social justice. He is the founding director of the Urban Education Project in
His most recent books are So Much Reform, So Little Change (Harvard Education Publication Group, 2008 ) and an anthology about the African-American tradition of education for liberation entitled Teach Freedom (Teacher's College Press, 2008).[3]
Publications
- Getting What We Ask For: The Ambiguity of Success and Failure In Urban Education (1984)
- I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle(1995)]
- Co-author (with Steven F. Lawson), Debating the Civil Rights Movement (1999)
- Co-editor (with Adam Green), Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950 (2003)
- So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools (2008)
- Co-editor (with Carol Sills Strickland), Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition (2008)
- Various articles on urban education and civil rights.
References
- ^ "CPS Officials Announce New Chief Education Officer: Charles M. Payne" Archived 2014-08-10 at the Wayback Machine (press release), Chicago Public Schools.
- ^ "Noted scholar of urban schooling joins faculty at School of Social Service Administration", University of Chicago News Office, June 8, 2007.
- ^ a b "Charles M. Payne, PhD" Archived 2014-08-10 at the Wayback Machine. Biography at The University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration.
- ^ Duke Library Magazine Archived 2011-03-05 at the Wayback Machine Vol. 18.