Tom Timar, professor and executive director of CAP-Ed, and Julie
Maxwell-Jolly, managing director of CAP-Ed, are the editors of a
new book, published by the Harvard Education Publishing Group:
Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Perspectives and Strategies
for Challenging Times. The book is available through
Harvard Education Press.
To paraphrase Dostoevsky, the quality of a society should be
measured by the quality of its schools, particularly the
quality of its schools educating the most disadvantaged
children.
Thomas Timar’s areas of expertise include education finance,
policy, and governance. In addition to his faculty
responsibilities, he is also director of the UC Davis Center for Applied Policy in Education
(CAP-Ed) and a member of the steering committee for Policy
Analysis for California Education (PACE).
Julie Maxwell-Jolly began her career in education teaching
English learner and immigrant students in the Los Angeles Unified
School District. She has a variety of additional education
experience including as a Lecturer at UC Davis, supervisor of
student teachers at CSU Sacramento, community college liaison for
migrant education, and working with legal organizations to design
and conduct workshops for parents of EL and immigrant students.
