Beatrice L Bridglall Author & Editor

Edmund W. Gordon is the Richard March Hoe Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Education and director of the Institute of Urban and Minority Education (IUME) at Teachers College, Columbia University where he was vice president of academic affairs and interim dean from July 2000 until August, 2001. He is also the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University. He is a former editor of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry and the annual Review of Research in Education. His book, Compensatory Education: Preschool Through College, continues to be regarded as the classic work in its field. Beatrice L. Bridglall is editor and assistant director of the Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME) at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is co-author of The Affirmative Development of Academic Ability (in process) with Professor Edmund W. Gordon and co-editor of the College Board's and IUME's Pedagogical Inquiry and Praxis Newsletter, which emphasizes the bi-directionality of knowledge production through practice and research, and issues associated with increasing the number of high academic achieving students who come from African American, Latina/o, and Native American families. Aundra Saa Meroe is a postdoctoral research scientist at The College Board and research associate at the Institute of Urban and Minority Education (IUME), Teachers College, Columbia University. She has served as a social worker and mental health and bereavement counselor with urban ethnic minority children of low SES groups, persons with AIDS, women in crisis, and the homeless and mentally ill.