Robert K. Ream

Robert K. Ream is associate dean of student success and associate professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Riverside. His research focuses on the social dynamics of educational inequality and the relationship between education and social opportunity. His work appears in scholarly journals including American Educational Research Journal, Sociology of Education, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Social Forces, and Teachers College Record. He is the author of Uprooting Children: Mobility, Social Capital, and Mexican American Achievement and co-editor of Professional Responsibility: The Fundamental Issue in Education and Health Care Reform. Ream previously served as an associate program officer at the Spencer Foundation and was a visiting research fellow at Princeton University’s Office of Population Research. He was also a postdoctoral fellow in education policy at the RAND Corporation and director of development in the Graduate School of Education at UC Santa Barbara. Before his academic career, he served as a legislative aide to former California state senator Gary K. Hart. Ream earned his PhD in educational leadership and administration from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

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