David L. Kirp, is a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy

Goldman School of Public Policy

The Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy is a public policy school and one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. Originally named the Graduate School of Public Policy, it was founded in 1969 as one of the first public policy institutions in the United...

 at the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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, former member of the Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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 Presidential Transition Team and author. His research has explored a wide range of social policy domains, including primary and higher education, race and gender equality, affordable housing, and the AIDS crisis. His work has attracted scholarly, policy activist, and popular audiences. He has written some sixteen books, as well as many articles that have appeared in leading policy-focused social science journals and law reviews. His research has been translated into numerous foreign languages, including Chinese (classical and simplified), Japanese and Ukrainian. Some of books include Gender Justice (University of Chicago Press 1986), Kids First: Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives (Public Affairs 2011), The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics (Harvard 2007), and Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (Harvard 2003).

Early life

Kirp graduated from Amherst College

Amherst College

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 in 1965. He later graduated from Harvard Law School

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Career

A former newspaper editor and syndicated columnist, David Kirp contributes to leading national print media outlets, including The New York Times

The New York Times

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, The Atlantic Monthly

The Atlantic Monthly

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, the American Prospect and The Nation

The Nation

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, and appears as a policy expert on nationally broadcast radio and televisions programs. He has delivered lectures and keynote speeches around the world, at universities including Harvard

Harvard University

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, Princeton

Princeton University

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, Columbia

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, Yale

Yale University

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, Glasgow, Taipei, Melbourne, Trento, Monterey, and Ben Gurion. He is a recipient of Berkeley's 1982 Distinguished Teaching Award.

David Kirp founded the Harvard Center on Law and Education, a national law reform organization that promotes equality of educational opportunity. He has served on numerous nonprofit boards, including Experience Corps, Friends of the Children, the Coro Leadership Center of San Francisco and the ACLU of Northern California. In 2008 he served on the Presidential Transition Team, working on education policy issues. He has consulted with many nonprofit groups and public agencies in the United States and abroad.

External links

• David Kirp AtGoogleTalks.