Improving High School Graduation for All

Russell W. Rumberger is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara. A faculty member at UCSB since 1987, Rumberger has published widely in several areas of education: education and work; the schooling of disadvantaged students, particularly school dropouts and linguistic minority students; school effectiveness; and education policy. He has served on four committees of the National Research Council (NRC), including the Committee on Increasing High School Students’ Engagement and Motivation to Learn that issued the highly regarded volume, Engaging Schools: Fostering High School Students' Motivation to Learn (2003). He was a member of the USDOE/IES panel that produced the Dropout Prevention Practice Guide (2008). He is author of Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It (Harvard University Press, 2011). He currently directs the California Dropout Research Project.

Rumberger received a BS in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University, and a MA in Economics and PhD in Education and from Stanford University. In 2013 he was made a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and received the Elizabeth G. Cohen Distinguished Career in Applied Sociology of Education Award, Sociology of Education SIG, American Educational Research Association.

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