Cynthia Coburn

Professor, Human Development and Social Policy. Professor, Learning Sciences at Kellogg School of Management

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Cynthia E. Coburn is a professor at Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy. Coburn studies the relationship between instructional policy and teachers' classroom practices in urban schools. To date, Coburn has investigated this issue in a series of studies that tackle critical issues facing public schools: the relationship between reading policy and teachers' classroom practice, the scale-up of innovative mathematics curricula, data use at the district level, and the relationship between research and practice for school improvement. In 2011, Coburn was awarded the Early Career Award from the American Educational Research Association in recognition of her contributions to the field of educational research in the first decade of her career. Coburn has a BA in philosophy from Oberlin College, and a MA in Sociology and a PhD in Education from Stanford University.

Awards/Honors

  • 2019 - Honorary Degree, Faculty of Psychology and Education and the Psychological Sciences Research Institute, UC Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • 2018 - Appointed to National Academies' Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication Research and Practice
  • 2015 - Elected Fellow, American Educational Research Association, honoring "exceptional contributions to and excellence in education research"
  • 2014 - Association of Student Government Faculty and Administration Honor Roll, for excellence in undergraduate teaching, Northwestern University
  • 2014 - Chair of Educational Change, Faculty of Education, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile
  • 2012 - Chancellor's Professor, University of California Berkeley
  • 2011 - Early Career Award, in recognition of distinguished portfolio of a cumulative within the first decade of career; American Educational Research Association
  • 2008 - Albert J. Harris Award for outstanding research contribution to the prevention or assessment of reading or learning disabilities; International Reading Association
  • 2007 - Award for Outstanding Reviewer; American Educational Research Journal-Social and Institutional Analysis
  • 2006 - Palmer O. Johnson Award for outstanding scholarship in an AERA journal; American Educational Research Association
  • 2002 - Dissertation Award, Division L (Politics and Policy); American Educational Research Association
  • 1999 - Spencer Foundation National Fellowship for Research Related to Education
  • 1988 - Phi Beta Kappa

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