Speaker Bios

Clifford Adelman
Senior Research Analyst
U.S. Department of Education

Taught at Roosevelt University, CCNY, and Yale, published two books, and served 5 years as associate dean at the William Paterson College of New Jersey before coming to the research and statistics division (OERI) of the U.S. Department of Education in 1979. Managed higher education issues for A Nation At Risk (1983) and wrote the study on which its high school curriculum recommendations were based. Created the project that yielded the higher education follow-up, Involvement in Learning (1984), and was thus blamed in the literature for starting the assessment movement in higher education. Edited two longitudinal studies data bases for the National Center for Education Statistics, produced two CD-ROM national datasets, and wrote nine monograph studies grounded in those data. The best known of these studies are Women at Thirtysomething: Paradoxes of Attainment (1991), Leading, Concurrent or Lagging? the Knowledge Content of Computer Science in Higher Education and the Labor Market (1997), Women and Men of the Engineering Path (1998), and Answers in the Tool Box: Academic Intensity, Attainment Patterns and Bachelor’s Degree Attainment (1999). Most recent monograph, A Parallel Postsecondary Universe: the Certification System in Information Technology (2000), has nothing to do with any of the above. Three other publications on postsecondary attainment, attendance patterns, and curriculum are currently in the review pipeline at the U.S. Department of Education, and should be released in 2003. Has been a fellow of NSF’s National Institute for Science Education and a visiting fellow at the College Board. Holds A.B. from Brown, and M.A. and Ph.D. (History of Culture) from the Univ. of Chicago. Writes frequently for the general and trade press, most recently on degree completion rates, affirmative action, the “remedial” conundrum, and “SAT talk” as propaganda.

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Answers in the Tool Box:  Academic Intensity, Attendance Patterns, and bachelor's Degree Attainment - Clifford Adelman, Senior Research Analyst, U.S. Department of Education.

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