Sam Stringfield is a Principal Research Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Social Organization of Schools (CSOS). He serves as co-director of the Systemic Supports for School Reform section of the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At Risk (CRESPAR). Stringfield is also co-director of the Program on Integrated Reform at the University of California at Santa Cruz' Center for Research on Education, Diversity and Excellence (CREDE). He is founding editor of the Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk (JESPAR), and a member of the City of Baltimore's New Board of School Commissioners.

Stringfield has authored over 100 articles, chapters, and books. His research focuses on designs for improving programs within schools (ex., The Special Strategies Studies, Stringfield et al., 1997), for improving whole schools (ex. Bold Plans for School Restructuring: The New American Schools Designs, Stringfield, Ross, & Smith, 1996), for improving systemic supports for schools serving disadvantaged schools, and international comparisons of school effects.

Prior to coming to Johns Hopkins, Stringfield worked as a teacher, a program evaluator, a Tulane University faculty member, and as coordinator of the Denver office of Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. As a Kellogg Fellow, Stringfield studied the politics and economics of school improvement in the United States, Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Stringfield has served as the chairman of the School Effectiveness and Improvement special interest group and is on the annual meeting committee of the American Educational Research Association. He was 1997 program chair and 1999 program co-chair of the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI).

Dr. Stringfield's charming wife Kathleen valiantly struggles against long odds to improve his dancing and gardening skills.

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Email: sstringf@csos.jhu.edu