Sean F. Reardon

Sean F. Reardon
Education:	Ed. D.; Educational Administration, Planning and Social Policy, Harvard, 1997
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POSITION TITLE:  Associate Professor of Education

RESEARCH INTERESTS:  Effects of community and neighborhood context on adolescent development and behavior; issues of social class, race, and stratification in U. S. schools and society; the dynamics of adult-adolescent relationships.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE:  1986-1988 High School English/Physics/Photography Teacher & Bus Driver, Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, SD 1988-1990 High School Physics/Mathematics Teacher, Moorestown Friends School, Moorestown, NJ 1992-1996 Teaching Fellow, Harvard Graduate School of Education 1997-1998 Instructor, Harvard Graduate School of Education 1999-Present Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University 1999-Present Faculty Affiliate, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University 1999-Present Faculty Affiliate, Center for Human Development and Family Research in Diverse Contexts, The Pennsylvania State University

HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:  Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Phi Bet Kappaa, University of Notre Dame, 1986 International Scholars Fellowship, University of Notre Dame, 1990-1991 Entering Award, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1991-1992 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U. S. Department of Education, 1991-1995 Advanced Doctoral Student Fellowship, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1995-1996 Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Spencer Foundation, 1996-1997 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Evaluating Programs for Children, Harvard Children's Initiative, 1998-1999 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2002-2004 William T. Grant Faculty Scholars Award, William T. Grant Foundation, 2002-2007

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:  Reardon, S. F. (1992). Far From Home: School Transportation for Boston's Homeless Children and Youth. Boston: Center for Law and Education. Orfield, G. , D. Glass, S. F. Reardon and S. Schley (1993). The Growth of Segregation in American Schools: Changing Patterns of Separation and Poverty Since 1968. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Project on School Desegregation. Orfield, G. and S. F. Reardon (1994). "Race, Poverty, and Inequality." In Liss, S. M. and W. L. Taylor (Eds.) , New Opportunities: Civil Rights at a Crossroads. Washington: Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights. Reardon, S. F. (1994). "Editor, Special Issue on Equity in Educational Assessment." Harvard Educational Review. |Journal Home Page| Wolf, D. P. and S. F. Reardon (1996). "Access to Excellence Through New Forms of Student Assessment." In Wolf, D. P. and J. B. Baron (Eds.) , Performance-Based Student Assessment: Challenges and Possibilities. Ninety-Fifth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Part I. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Reardon, S. F. , J. T. Yun and T. M. Eitle (2000). "The Changing Structure of School Segregation: Measurement and Evidence of Multi-Racial Metropolitan Area School Segregation, 1989-1995." Demography 37(3):351-364. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Reardon, S. F. and J. T. Yun (2001). "Suburban Racial Change and Suburban School Segregation, 1987-95." Sociology of Education 74(2):79-101. |Journal Home Page| Novak, S. P. , S. F. Reardon and S. L. Buka (2002). "How Beliefs about Substance Use Differ by Socio-Demographic Characteristics, Individual Experiences, and Neighborhood Environments among Urban Adolescents." Journal of Drug Education 32(4):319-342. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Reardon, S. F. and G. Firebaugh (2002). "Measures of Multigroup Segregation." Sociological Methodology 32:33-67. |Journal Home Page| Reardon, S. F. and G. Firebaugh (2002). "Response: Segregation and Social Distance -- A Generalized Approach to Segregation Measurement." Sociological Methodology 2002 32:85-101. |Journal Home Page| Reardon, S. F. and J. T. Yun (2002). "Segregation in Church and State?: Vouchers and Racial Enrollment Patterns Among Public and Private Schools." Teachers College Record July 15. |Full Text| |Journal Home Page| Reardon, S. F. and S. L. Buka (2002). "Differences in Onset and Persistence of Substance Abuse and Dependence among Whites, Blacks, and Hispanics." Public Health Reports 117(Suppl. 1):S51-S59. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page| Reardon, S. F. , R. T. Brennan and S. L. Buka (2002). "Estimating Multi-Level Discrete-Time Hazard Models Using Cross-Sectional Data: Neighborhood Effects on the Onset of Adolescent Cigarette Use." Multivariate Behavioral Research 37(3):297-330. |Journal Home Page| Reardon, S. F. and J. T. Yun (2003). "Integrating Neighborhoods, Segregating Schools: The Retreat from School Desegregation in the South, 1990-2000." North Carolina Law Review 81(4):1563-1596. |Journal Home Page| Reardon, S. F. and J. T. Yun (2003). "Private School Racial Enrollments and Segregation." In Kahlenberg, R. D. (Ed.) , Public School Choice vs. Private School Vouchers. New York: Century Foundation Press. Reardon, S. F. and J. T. Yun (2005). "Integrating Neighborhoods, Segregating Schools: The Retreat from School Desegregation in the South, 1990-2000." In Boger, J. C. , C. Edley and G. Orfield (Eds.) , School Resegregation: Must the South Turn Back?. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.