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Richard Milner IV
Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University
Education/Degree:
1 Educational Policy and Leadership Educational Policy and Leadership (The Ohio State University)
About
H. Richard Milner IV is Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development. He has secondary appointments in Peabody’s Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations and the Department of Sociology in Vanderbilt’s College of Arts and Science. Milner is President of the American Educational Research Association, the largest research organization in the world. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Education.
Current Work
Milner is a researcher, scholar and leader of urban education and teacher education. Centering on equity and diversity, he has spent hundreds of hours observing teachers’ practices and interviewing educators and students in urban schools about micro-level policies that shape students’ opportunities to learn. He examines the social context of classrooms and schools and looks at ways in which teachers talk (particularly about race) influences student learning, identity and development.