Edmund W. Gordon
Edmund W. Gordon | |
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Born | Edmund Wyatt Gordon June 13, 1921 |
Education |
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Notable work | The Achievement Gap |
Spouse |
Susan Gitt Gordon
(m. 1948; died 2016) |
Children | 4 |
Awards | Development psychology |
Institutions | List |
Notable students |
Edmund Wyatt Gordon (born June 13, 1921) is an American psychologist and professor.
He cites as major influencers Herbert G. Birch, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Alain LeRoy Locke.
Background
Gordon's scholarship has focused on the development of students who were
In a New York Times article about Gordon's personal life and professional contributions, Gordon cites Alain LeRoy Locke, Herbert G. Birch, and W. E. B. Du Bois as the mentors that influenced him throughout his studies. Gordon was struggling to succeed at Howard University when Locke helped to encourage him and keep him on track. Gordon has stated that Locke set him on the course of serious scholarship. Next, he discussed his interaction with Birch, a research psychologist at City College. Birch encouraged Gordon to go to the library and read. Finally, Gordon describes his mentorship with W. E. B. Du Bois, a world-renowned author, activist, and co-founder of the NAACP. Du Bois suggested that Gordon study the percentage of minority students that succeed despite serious challenges.[8]
Professional life
Edmund Gordon was working at Stanford University with colleagues that were involved in John F. Kennedy's beginnings of social change. Soon after, Kennedy was assassinated and Lyndon Johnson became president. Gordon was given the job of evaluating the Head Start program. Gordon stated that getting this job had as much to do with his doctoral studies as it did affirmative action. Gordon has stated that while he believes Head Start has been a success from a government standpoint, the program could have been much more than it is today. His colleagues and he viewed the project as not only a child development project, but also a project to influence and improve the lives of families and communities. The latter part of Gordon's dreams for Head Start have not come to be, but he still believes the overall program has been a success.[9]
Gordon received his bachelor's degree in
From July 2000 until August 2001 he was Vice President of Academic Affairs and Interim Dean at Teachers College, Columbia University. He is the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology Emeritus at
Gordon was elected member of the National Academy of Education in 1968. In 2005, Columbia University named its campus in Harlem, NY the Edmund W. Gordon Campus of Teachers College, Columbia University.[17]
On June 28, 2010, he was awarded the 2010 American Educational Research Association (AERA) "Relating Research to Practice Award."[18]
The professor served as chairperson of the Gordon Commission with Educational Testing Service from 2011 through the publication of its reports in 2013.[19]
On December 15, 2014, The Board of Regents of the University of Texas System approved the honorific naming of the newly renovated and expanded Geography Building as the Susan G. and Edmund W. Gordon & Charles W. and Frances B. White Building, now referred to as the Gordon-White Building.[20]
In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[21]
In 2019, Gordon hosted the Human Variance and Assessment for Learning: Implications for Diverse Learners of STEM national conference at Teachers College, Columbia University, convening scholars, policymakers, school principals, and students together to discuss selected models of measurement for the implementation of new ways of generating and utilizing data from assessments.[22]
Archives have been established to catalogue Gordon's publishing and community engagement at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture[23] in 1990 and at the University of Texas at Austin in 2018.[24]
In April 2021 Gordon was named Honorary President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), the first person to receive this recognition in the organization's history.[25]
Personal life
Edmund Gordon was born in 1921 in the segregated town of Goldsboro, North Carolina.[26] His father emigrated from Jamaica and began to practice medicine when he married Gordon's mother, an elementary school teacher. While the town was heavily segregated and African Americans weren't allowed to shop alongside white Americans, the Gordon family was allowed to shop in a department store on Wednesday afternoons because of the strong reputation of Gordon's father.[27]
Edmund Gordon purchased the homesite of W. E. B. Du Bois' childhood house in 1967. It was turned into a landmark in 1987 when the Du Bois foundation handed it over to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. University of Massachusetts Amherst was designated as custodian.[28]
He was married to Susan Gitt Gordon, a pediatrician for over 60 years. Together they had four children, nine grandchildren (including
He turned 100 in 2021.[30]
References
- ISBN 978-0-7623-0428-8.
- ^ "Edmund Gordon, Marian Wright Edelman to be Honored with John Hope Franklin Awards". March 6, 2011.
- ^ "Marian Wright Edelman receives Dr. John Hope Franklin Award". Archived from the original on July 7, 2011. Retrieved November 4, 2011.
- ^ "Dr. Edmund Gordon on the Causes of the Achievement Gap".
- ^ "Dr. Edmund W. Gordon Battles to Eradicate Achievement Gap". November 7, 2012.
- ^ "Psychologist Edmund W. Gordon speaks about academic achievement gap".
- ^ "Edmund Gordon". November 27, 2018.
- ^ Gross, Jane (January 8, 2003). "Studying Race, Privilege and Intellectual Levels". The New York Times.
- Monitor on Psychology. 42 (10). American Psychological Association(APA). November 2011.
- ^ "University of California - Edmund W. Gordon Biography" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on January 20, 2012. Retrieved January 20, 2012.
- ^ "Home". iume.tc.columbia.edu.
- ^ "Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC)".
- ^ "The City College of New York :: CCNY Hosts Tenth Annual LSAMP Conference". Archived from the original on May 3, 2007. Retrieved November 4, 2011.
- ^ "RCC Re-Appoints Scholar-In-Residence". June 30, 2010.
- ^ "Research Chairs: ETS R&D".
- ^ "ETS Creates Edmund W. Gordon Chair for Policy Evaluation and Research". Teachers College - Columbia University. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
- ^ "Edmund Gordon - National Academy of Education". National Academy of Education.
- ^ "Relating Research to Practice Award".
- ^ "Edmund W. Gordon, EdD – FABBS". August 30, 2016.
- ^ Meeting utsystem.edu
- ^ "Five professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences". Yale News. April 11, 2017. Retrieved April 18, 2017.
- ^ "Human Variance and Assessment for Learning Implications for Diverse Learners of STEM: A National Conference | CADRE". cadrek12.org. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
- The New York Public Library Archives & Manuscripts. February 22, 1999. Retrieved August 9, 2022.
- ^ "Life, Leadership, and Learning: From the Archive of Edmund W. Gordon | University of Texas Libraries | the University of Texas at Austin".
- ^ "Preeminent Scholar Edmund Gordon Named AERA Honorary President". www.aera.net. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
- ISBN 031328931X.
- ^ "Reflections on Edmund Gordon | Inside the Academy". Archived from the original on January 7, 2013. Retrieved December 9, 2012.
- ^ "W.E.B. Du Bois Homesite – Du Bois National Historic Site". Retrieved September 2, 2023.
- ^ Tucker, Eric (June 13, 2021). "Celebrating Edmund W. Gordon". Getting Smart.
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External links
- Edmund W. Gordon papers, 1957-1990 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
- Edmund W. Gordon papers Benson Latin American Collection, UT Austin.