Bruce Fuller
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Bruce Fuller
Professor,
University of California, Berkeley
Bruce Fuller is professor of education and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on the early learning of young children and the diverse institutions that enrich their development. A former director of PACE and researcher at the World Bank, he taught at Harvard University before returning to California and UC Berkeley. He is author of Standardized Childhood and of Organizing Locally. He is working on a book on the history of civic activism and school reform in Los Angeles. Fuller received his PhD in the sociology of education at Stanford University.
updated 2012
Publications by Bruce Fuller
Early Learning Effects of Type, Quality, and Stability
Young children in poor communities are spending more hours in nonparental care because of policy reforms and expansion of early childhood programs. Studies show positive effects of high-quality, center-based care on children's cognitive growth. Yet…
Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities for Improvement
Accountability for student performance is on the minds of everyone in U.S. education—from policymakers to district administrators to principals. While the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) has claimed center stage in the national…
Similar Test Scores, but Different Students, Bring Federal Sanctions
This brief details how schools serving diverse students in California are less likely to achieve their growth targets and be subjected to stiff federal sanctions. Schools enrolling more demographic subgroups do serve students who tend to score lower…
Many policymakers are shedding essential tenets of modern statecraft. Few seek to sustain the monolithic one best system of schooling: herding students through large institutions, regulated by bureaucracy and guided by professionals under…