Stanford Summer Teaching Institute 2008

Larry Cuban

Dr. Larry Cuban is Professor Emeritus of Education at Stanford University. With his fourteen years of teaching social studies in inner city high schools, his seven years as a district superintendent of the Arlington, Virginia Public Schools, and his ongoing scholarly work on the history of US education, Cuban is uniquely prepared to offer students at the School of Education and teachers in the field a broad and real- world perspective on what works and what doesn't work in K-12 teaching.

At Stanford Cuban has taught courses in the methods of teaching social studies, the history of school reform, curriculum, and instruction, and leadership. He has also been the faculty sponsor of the Stanford Schools Collaborative and Stanford's Teacher Education Program. Since 1988, he has taught three times in local high schools semester-long courses in U.S. History and Economics. Between 1981-2001, students in the School of Education selected Cuban for an award in excellence in teaching seven times. He continues to work with Bay Area teachers and administrators through the Stanford Educational Collaborative.

His major research interests focus on the history of curriculum and instruction, educational leadership, school reform and the uses of technology in classrooms. His most recent books are: Partners in Literacy: Schools and Libraries Building Communities through Technology, 2007 (with Sondra Cuban); Cutting Through The Hype: A Taxpayer’s Guide to School Reform 2006 (with Jane David); The Blackboard and the Bottom Line: Why Schools Can’t Be Businesses (2004); Powerful Reforms with Shallow Roots: Improving Urban Schools 2003 (edited with Michael Usdan); Why Is It So Hard To Get Good Schools? (2003) Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom (2001); and How Can I Fix It? An Educators' Guide to Solving Problems and Managing Dilemmas (2001).

KEITH DEVLIN

Dr. Keith Devlin is a Senior Researcher at CSLI and its Executive Director, a Consulting Professor in the Stanford Department of Mathematics, and a co-founder of the Stanford Media X research network and of the university's H-STAR institute. He is a World Economic Forum Fellow and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His current research is focused on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences. He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis. Other research interests include: theory of information, models of reasoning, applications of mathematical techniques in the study of communication, and mathematical cognition.

Devlin has written over 26 books, including his most recent: The Numbers Behind Numb3rs: Solving Crime with Mathematics 2007 (with Gary Lorden). A companion volume to the hit CBS television series for which Devlin is a consultant, the book explains the real-life mathematical techniques used by law enforcement agencies to help catch and convict criminals. Devlin also wrote The Math Instinct: Why You're a Mathematical Genius (Along with Lobsters, Birds, Cats, and Dogs) (2006), where he explores how humans can improve our math skills by learning from dogs, cats, and other creatures that "do math". Devlin has published over 75 research articles and is a monthly regular on National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition, where he is known widely as “The Math Guy”.

Devlin is the recipient of the Italian Pythagoras Prize; the Peano Prize; the Communications Award of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics and the 2007 Carla Sagan Award for Science Popularization.