In fact, Gordon popularized the term. Professor Emeritus. My father was a physician in the segregated South. I had the good fortune of working with W.E.B. While the town was heavily segregated and African Americans weren't allowed to shop alongside white Americans, the Gordon family was allowed to shop in a department store on Wednesday afternoons because of the strong reputation of Gordon's father.[27]. Please send your contributions to us here. Gordon and colleagues consider with a shift from being to becoming in assessment, what might this mean for how we approach questions of equity, diversity, and the ethical? We have an extensive variety of listings for both academic and non-academic positions at postsecondary institutions. Q: If what were concerned about is the well-being of children, then school is not at the top of our list? The commission has even taken their inquiry to the streets, holding public forums to engage stakeholders, educators, parents and students around issues in assessment and possible solutions. I did learn a lot about thinking. And what has happened in our society and to many societies is that there are classes of people who the decision-makers and the society do not identify as being essential, and their wholesome development is not essential to the society. A careful man, he takes slow deliberate pauses between thoughts and drags his sentences to understanding. This is a paradigm shift from traditional testing practices of dominate education policy; that is, a shift from the testing of static being of student capabilities to the assessment of student becoming in learning processes; from score generalities for decision making toward more detailed processual information to enable teaching and learning. He has been awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, Yeshiva University, Brown University, and most recently Morehouse College. As a nonagenarian, however, Gordon is leading the most comprehensive study of issues within assessment to date with funding from Education Testing Services, the worlds largest private nonprofit educational testing body, an organization responsible for standardized tests including the GRE. Professor Gordon was recognized as a preeminent scholar of African-American studies when he was awarded the 2011 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award from Diverse Issues in Higher Education magazine at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Council on Education. And I would [make it higher] if it doesnt serve the purpose. He is the author of more than 200 articles and 18 books. His current work (at 98 years old!!!) Learn abouta planned conference later this spring in honor of Edmund Gordon's 100th birthday. I have asked several colleagues and friends to share a few words about Edmund W. Gordon and their relationship with him. Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education, Professor of Psychology and Education and Professor of Clinical Psychology, former TC Professor of Social Studies and Education, E.L. Thorndike Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education, Pastor, Second Baptist Church, Los Angeles, Richard March Hoe Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education, William F. Russell Professor Emeritus in Foundations of Education, Professor of Political Science & Education, Department Chair, EPSA, Marx Professor of Early Childhood and Family Policy, Ed.D. A: I do wish I knew. Du Bois. If you take the way in which we use the language, thats different from the way in which some of the kids in the poorer sections of Bed-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn do. Twitter A Soliloquy on Viewing the Life of Professor Edmund W. Gordon from the First Decade of His Second Century, Dr. A school that can carry on his Marxist and pragmatist influenced legacy, his will to do what is necessary to be responsive to the variability of human need and development even when it is not what is seemingly popular, and a focus on enabling the marginalized. But Dr. Gordons influence is not limited to education. I like to think that he taught me how to think. These are the words that Professor Edmund W. Gordon stated in a recent interview when talking about his mentor Dr. W. E. B. DuBois. A: Thats hard. He is widely known for his research on diverse human characteristics and pedagogy. Dr. Gordons subsequent friendship with one of the greatest civil rights leaders and thinkers of the 20th century had a critical impact on the direction of his own research. Gordon was struggling to succeed at Howard University when Locke helped to encourage him and keep him on track. From the first time I met him at Yale University, I was impressed not only by his towering intellect but his warmth, compassion, and humanity. As a political and social endeavor, it has turned out to be one of the most successful and effective of the federal government's experiments. Du Bois, a world-renowned author, activist, and co-founder of the NAACP. His research includes the advancement of the concepts of "the Achievement Gap",[4][5][6] "Affirmative development of academic ability", and "Supplementary Education", all which focus on improving the quality of academic achievement in diverse learners. He received his bachelors degree in Zoology and Social Ethics in Divinity from Howard University, a Master of Arts degree in Social Psychology from American University, and the Doctor of Education degree in child development and guidance from Teachers College, Columbia University. A: Im not sure I handled it well, and Im not certain that I handle it well now, but this is still a problem. 0. Gordon could retire comfortably at his home in upstate New York having established a tremendous legacy. The problem of education for us is that weve got great diversity in the cultures, the identities, the lifestyles, the values, the appreciations that kids bring to school. But she kept after me on my diet, she made me eat the proper things, she was very insistent on the exercise, and she was sharp as a whip. Q: What is the secret to being as smart, engaged and healthy as you are at age 100? As a professor of psychology, he had a tremendous influence on contemporary thinking in psychology, education and social policy and the implications of his work for the schooling of marginalized youth and children of color, in the United States . So lets stop doing the accounting and lets start doing the developing. The latter part of Gordons dreams for Head Start have not come to fruition, despite what he believes to be the overall success of the program. Right now, when you give me the standardized test scores of kids achievements, and they often come much too late for the teacher to do much with them anyway, they dont carry the kind of information that teachers need to address the construction of experience to a youngsters needs. I think we need to get back to improving and universalizing high-quality developmental experiences for kids who are raised in stable, well-resourced families. Q: I know youve done a lot of thinking about assessments and high stakes standardized testing. Its incumbent on educators to apply Dr. Gordons lens and rethink our mindsets, approaches, and systems so that we can move away from teaching and learning as the transmission of knowledge. From July 2000 until August 2001 he was Vice President of Academic Affairs and Interim Dean at Teachers College, Columbia University. [7], In a New York Times article about Gordon's personal life and professional contributions, Gordon cites Alain LeRoy Locke, Herbert G. Birch, and W. E. B. Gordon was given the job of evaluating the Head Start program. Jan Harrington; Professor Emeritus. We have a sense that we belong in the society. American psychologist and educator (born 1921), American Educational Research Association, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, "Edmund Gordon, Marian Wright Edelman to be Honored with John Hope Franklin Awards", "Marian Wright Edelman receives Dr. John Hope Franklin Award", "Dr. Edmund Gordon on the Causes of the Achievement Gap", "Dr. Edmund W. Gordon Battles to Eradicate Achievement Gap", "Psychologist Edmund W. 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[9], Gordon received his bachelor's degree in Zoology and Social Ethics in Divinity from Howard University, a Master of Arts degree in Social Psychology from American University, and the Doctor of Education degree in child development and guidance from Teachers College, Columbia University. White Building, now referred to as the Gordon-White Building. Ive got four highly successful kids. He is the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology Emeritus at Yale University, the Richard March Hoe Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and founding Director of the Institute for Urban & Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and the Institute for Research on African Diaspora in the Americas and Caribbean (IRADAC) at The City College of New York. It was from him that I first learned to pay attention to context. And Im running because the people Im talking to are the people who fund research and can you believe it, at 100, theyre thinking about funding a new project for me. Gordon Commission on the Future of Assessment in Education. The Gordon Paradigm represents a shift in research on the education and human development of marginalized groups and the socially constituted other or different. If you dont think I belong, you dont give a damn what happens to me. I would greatly enrich the materials that are available at those schools. A: Id put that moratorium on the wide use of standardized educational achievement tests, giving the industry two charges. Meanings. Dr. Gordon, on behalf of all the educators in this country, on behalf of Americas children, I want to personally thank you.. So I need to talk to them. Youve got some people who are scrounging day-to-day. In 2006, Edmund W. and Susan G. Gordon were inducted into the Rockland County Civil Rights Hall of Fame. This article was published more than1 year ago. "[18], The professor served as chairperson of the Gordon Commission with Educational Testing Service from 2011 through the publication of its reports in 2013. In honoring Gordon, Harper was joined by Kenji Hakuta, Lee J. Jacks Professor of Education Emeritus at Stanford University, who led a brief conversation with Gordon, and four former AERA presidents: Linda Darling Hammond, President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and a former TC faculty member; Carol D. Lee, Professor Emeritus in the School of Education and Social Policy and in . As educators, we do best by students when we enable learners to orchestrate and mediate their own learning. One is to subject their data to mass data analytics, to try to see if we can extract more information that is useful for teachers in what they ought to be doing, and learners themselves and what they ought to be doing. Du Bois as the mentors that influenced him throughout his studies. Q: When we think about education today, theres a lot of anxiety around how were going to recover from the pandemic, which was really such a disaster for so many kids who were out of school for more than a year in some cases. [1] Sign up to receive our weekly innovations in learning email newsletter: Eric Tucker is the co-founder and Executive Director of Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools. [13] In 2006, Dr. Gordon was appointed Senior Scholar in Residence at SUNY Rockland Community College, an appointment that was renewed in 2010. Facebook Earlier this month, Teachers College renamed its Institute for Urban and Minority Education (IUME)after Gordon to honor his contributions as a racial equity and education scholar. In asking us to reimagine how and what we assess in education, Dr. Gordon was challenging us to think beyond the learning that takes place in school and expand our view of what it will mean to be an educated person in the mid-21st-century. Theres no justification for that kind of maldistribution and none of us are smart enough to say we deserve that much more than that for everybody else. He is regarded as one of the foremost scholars on divergent learning styles and championed supplemental education long before it was popular. He has stated that getting this job had as much to do with his doctoral studies as it did affirmative action. Enter the information below to get signed up for our weekly Smart Update newsletter below so you don't miss any learning innovations. Teachers College psychologist Edmund W. Gordon, Jr., who will celebrate his 100th birthday in June, was named Honorary President of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in a special virtual ceremony held on April 12th as part of the organizations 2021 annual meeting. He is former Director at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the co-founder and Executive Director of the National Association for Urban Debate Leagues. Edmund W. Gordon has been thinking about child well-being for a long time. Dr. Edmund W. Gordon was born on June 13, 1921 in the segregated town of Goldsboro, North Carolina. I sometimes complain that the opportunity came to me at the second weakest point in my life, second after childhood. John M. Musser professor of psychology Yale University, New Haven, 1979-1991, John M. Musser professor of psychology emeritus, 1991. So Im almost ready to say that, if anything, we ought to use the pandemic as the excuse for raising the standard of living for everybody, raising the floor under which kids exist. PhD, 1965. [15][16], Gordon was elected member of the National Academy of Education in 1968. After earning degrees from Howard University and Columbia Universitys Teachers College, Dr. Gorden embarked on a storied career researching and writing about equity in education. And the people in the room are influenced by, and almost by default, are students of Professor Gordon because hes had such an incredible impact on education. Were beginning to understand that, in human intellectual functions, the affective (or the emotional) and the social situations in which problems are engaged are as important as the cognitive processes on which we have been focused. He says that assessment of the future must reconcile these three sense-making processes and how academics deal with this dynamic reality in pedagogy and how assessment opens up years of additional study. In 2000, they co-founded The CEJJES Institute in Pomona, New York on route NY 45 in Rockland County, New York to serve the African Diaspora. Edmund Gordonisthe John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Emeritus at Yale University, Richard March Hoe Professor, Emeritus of Psychology and Education and Founding Director of the Institute of Urban and Minority Education (IUME) at Teachers College, Columbia University. As in so many domains of his life, Dr. Gordon brought together a group of education leaders whom he had mentored individually and collectively for decades. The Gordon School and Paradigm of Inquiry and Practice is an assemblage of scholars, scholarship, and scholar/activist practices. Who on Earth needs and knows what to do with more than a million dollars a year? That is to say, assessment should serve the function of informing and enhancing the transactions of teaching and learning. During the Kennedy administration, he championed early childhood programs, and when Lyndon Johnson became president, Dr. Gordon was tasked with evaluating the Head Start program. All of them are not necessarily as useful in learning to be academically proficient. We get to look back at what his thinking has been, what it is presently and work with him to predict what education will be.. [26] His father emigrated from Jamaica and began to practice medicine when he married Gordon's mother, an elementary school teacher. To learn more about Professor Gordon, read: To learn about IUME's current director, Ernest Morrell (TC Professor of English Education, and President of the National Council of Teachers of English), read: In "Mini Moments with Big Thinkers," leading figures in Teachers College's history discuss groundbreaking ideas, research and initiatives born at the College during the past half-century. During his career, Dr. Gordon has examined outcomes for children of color and those from low-income families, and the importance of public education to support human rights-based and equity-centered affirmative development for all. 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