Professor of education Mike Rose was recently elected to membership in the National Academy of Education.
Founded in 1965, the NAEd is a select group of approximately 200 members from throughout the United States and foreign associates who are elected to membership based on their outstanding contributions to research in education. In addition to serving on expert study panels that examine current issues in education, members are engaged in professional development programs such as the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship Program and the NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship Program.
Among Professor Rose’s most significant contributions is his reevaluation of academically underprepared students. In his 1989 book, “Lives on the Boundary,” he argues that remedial students lack literacy skills not through a lack of intelligence but because of poor education and a lack of supportive social and economic conditions. In addition, Rose’s 2005 book, “The Mind at Work” celebrates the intelligence involved in blue collar work such as waitressing, plumbing, and welding, calls into question standard definitions of intelligence, the popular definition of “skilled” work, and the separation of school curriculum into vocational vs. academic learning.
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