Carol Corbett Burris
| Carol Corbett Burris | |
|---|---|
| Born | Carol Ann Corbett |
| 💼 Occupation | Educator |
Carol Corbett Burris (born 1953) is an American educator, administrator, and author. She is an advocate of "detracking" the secondary school curriculum, not only to allow all students access and support in International Baccalaureate courses, but also to desegregate classrooms where minority students have not been given opportunities to succeed with a more challenging curriculum.
Early life and education
Burris earned a Ph.D. at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2003, with a dissertation titled, Providing accelerated mathematics to heterogeneously grouped middle school students: The longitudinal effects on students of differing initial achievement levels, sponsored by Jay P. Heubert.[1]
Career
In her early career, Burris served ten years on a school board, taught middle school and high school Spanish, and was vice principal of South Side High School in Rockville Centre, New York.[2] From 2000 to 2015 Burris served as the principal at South Side.[3]
In a 2007 article in Educational Leadership, Burris challenged the current pedagogy that limited the more challenging courses to schools' highest-achieving students, asking, "What would happen if all students were encouraged to enroll in the most rigorous classes available?" Advocating "detracking" students to allow participation of all in International Baccalaureate (IB) courses at South Side High School, Burris identified cultural and institutional barriers for minority students "to take the risk of signing up for the rigorous IB classes".[4] Teachers also appealed to student interests to encourage enrollment in IB classes, and the IB coordinator held work sessions with every tenth grade student, explaining the advantages of achieving IB diploma requirements.[4] Burris reported a follow-up study of graduates, concluding, "Of the 86 percent who were contacted, 90 percent of students who took IB English and IB math graduated from college in four years, compared with 34 percent of those who did not take either course."[4]
Burris became an ardent opponent of Common Core standards, arguing that the Core testing harms disadvantaged students, writing that "high stakes testing –using tests for student promotion, teacher evolution, and even school closure – has certainly increased the controversy surrounding the Common Core".[8] She also targeted teacher evaluations based on students' scores on Common Core tests, writing, "We know this will result in increased teaching to the test and a curriculum that narrows to those Common Core standards that are tested. In districts and states that chose to rely heavily on test scores in their evaluations, that has been the observed outcome."[8]
Burris resigned as the principal at South Side in 2015, concluding, "I cannot be part of reforms that eat away at the moral fabric of our schools..."[9]
In August 2015, Burris became Executive director of the Network for Public Education.[3][10]
Selected publications
Books
- Burris, Carol Corbett; Garrity, Delia T. (2008). Detracking for Excellence and Equity. ASCD. ISBN 978-1-4166-0708-3. Search this book on
- Burris, C.C. (2012). Opening the Common Core: How to Bring ALL Students to College and Career Readiness. SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781452277400. Search this book on Review[12]
- Burris, Carol Corbett (2014-03-18). On the Same Track: How Schools Can Join the Twenty-First-Century Struggle against Resegregation. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-3297-8. Search this book on Reviews[13][14][15][16]
Articles
- Burris, C. C., & Welner, K. G. (2005). Closing the achievement gap by detracking. Phi Delta Kappan, 86(8), 594-598.
- Burris, C. C., Heubert, J. P., & Levin, H. M. (2006). Accelerating mathematics achievement using heterogeneous grouping. American Educational Research Journal, 43(1), 137-154.
- Welner, K., & Burris, C. C. (2006). Alternative approaches to the politics of detracking. Theory into Practice, 45(1), 90-99.
- Burris, C. C., Welner, E. W. K., & Murphy, J. (2008). Accountability, rigor, and detracking: Achievement effects of embracing a challenging curriculum as a universal good for all students. Teachers College Record, 110(3), 571-607.
- Burris, Carol C.; Welner, Kevin G.; Bezoza, Jennifer W. (December 2009). "Universal Access to a Quality Education". studylib.net. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
- Corbett Burris, Carol; Welner, Kevin; Weiser Bezoza, Jennifer (2010-02-01). "Universal Access to Quality Education: Research and Recommendations for the Elimination of Curricular Stratification". PRRAC — Connecting Research to Advocacy. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
- Wellner, Kevin G.; Corbett Burris, Carol (2010-02-19). "Tracking sends too many offtrack". Newsday. pp. A37. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
- Burris, Carol Corbett (January 25, 2012). "Using Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers Is Based on the Wrong Values". The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 28, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2022. Unknown parameter
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Awards, honors
- 2003 – National Association of Secondary Schools’ Principals Middle Level Dissertation of the Year Award[17]
- 2010 – Named Educator of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York State (SAANYS)[17]
- 2013 – Named SAANYS New York State High School Principal of the Year[17][18]
See also
References
- ↑ "Providing accelerated mathematics to heterogeneously grouped middle school students: The longitudinal effects on students of differing initial achievement levels - ProQuest". www.proquest.com. Retrieved 2022-11-07.
- ↑ "Carol Corbett Burris". ASCD. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Carol C. Burris". National Education Policy Center. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Burris, Carol Corbett; Welner, Kevin G.; Wiley, Edward W.; Murphey, John (April 2007). "A World-Class Curriculum for All" (PDF). Educational Leadership. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. 64 (7): 53–56.
- ↑ Bracey, Gerald W. (February 2009). "PISA: Not Leaning Hard on U.S. Economy". The Phi Delta Kappan. Retrieved 2024-01-18 – via JSTOR.
- ↑ Napoitana, Jo (2011-07-18). "Standardized testing critics to rally". Newsday. pp. A14. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
- ↑ "Education reform still no sure thing". Newsday. 2012-02-17. pp. A18. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Principal: 'I cannot be part of reforms that eat away at the moral fabric of our schools'". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
- ↑ Chase, Christopher (2015-06-28). "2013 Principal of the Year Resigns in Protest of NY State Education Reforms". Creative by Nature. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Green, Erica L. (2022-05-13). "New Biden Administration Rules for Charter Schools Spur Bipartisan Backlash". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-12-15.
- ↑ Burris, Carol; Rees, Nina (2021-10-01). "Should For-Profit Charter Schools Receive Federal Funding?". Leader-Telegram. pp. A10. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
- ↑ Burris, Carol Corbett; Garrity, Delia T. (2012-03-13). Opening the Common Core: How to Bring ALL Students to College and Career Readiness. Corwin Press. ISBN 978-1-4522-7740-0. Search this book on
- ↑ "AASA | American Association of School Administrators". www.aasa.org. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
- ↑ Burris, Carol Corbett (2014). LibraryThing Reviews: On the Same Track: How Schools Can Join the Twenty-First-Century Struggle against Resegregation. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-3297-8. Search this book on
- ↑ Bracey, Gerald W. (2009). "PISA: Not Leaning Hard on U.S. Economy". The Phi Delta Kappan. 90 (6): 450–451. doi:10.1177/003172170909000617. ISSN 0031-7217. JSTOR 20446143. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "ON THE SAME TRACK How Schools Can Join the Twenty-First-Century Struggle Against Resegregation". Kirkus Reviews. 82 (2): 90. 2014-01-15.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 "Project Leadership | Schools of Opportunity". schoolsofopportunity.org. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
- ↑ "Rockville Centre has state's Principal of Year". Newsday. 2013-04-11. Retrieved 2023-10-14.
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