Charles M. Payne, Jr. (born March 14, 1948) is an American academic whose areas of study include civil rights activism, urban education reform, social inequality, and modern

African-American history African-American history began with the arrival of Africans to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. Former Spanish slaves who had been freed by Francis Drake arrived aboard the Golden Hind at New Albion in California in 1579. The ...

. He was the Chief Education Officer for

Chicago Public Schools Chicago Public Schools (CPS), officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons, in Chicago, Illinois, is the third-largest school district in the United States, after New York and Los Angeles. ...

and used to be the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

's School of Social Service Administration.

Education and career

Charles Payne received a Bachelor's Degree in Afro-American studies from Syracuse University in 1970 and a Ph.D in sociology from

Northwestern University Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world. Charte ...

in 1976. He has held professorial positions and endowed chairs at several American institutions, among them Southern University,

Williams College Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was kill ...

, Haverford College, Northwestern, Duke University, where he held the Sally Dalton Robinson Chair for Teaching Excellence, and the

(Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration)."Charles M. Payne, PhD"
. Biography at The University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration. Payne has also been active in the creation and direction of several organizations intended to address issues of social justice. He is the founding director of the Urban Education Project in Orange, N.J., a community-based effort to provide advanced career training for local youth. While at Duke, he co-founded the

John Hope Franklin John Hope Franklin (January 2, 1915 – March 25, 2009) was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Histo ...

Scholars, a program that helps Durham-area high schoolers prepare for and apply to college.Duke Library Magazine
Vol. 18. His other projects have included the Duke Curriculum Project, the Education for Liberators Network, and work with the Chicago Algebra Project and with the Steering Committee for the Consortium on Chicago School Research. His most recent books are ''So Much Reform, So Little Change'' (Harvard Education Publication Group, 2008 ) and an anthology about the African-American tradition of education for liberation entitled ''Teach Freedom'' (Teacher's College Press, 2008).

Publications

*''Getting What We Ask For: The Ambiguity of Success and Failure In Urban Education'' (1984) *'' I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle'' (1995)] *Co-author (with Steven F. Lawson), ''Debating the Civil Rights Movement'' (1999) *Co-editor (with Adam Green), ''Time Longer Than Rope: A Century of African American Activism, 1850-1950'' (2003) *''So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools'' (2008) *Co-editor (with Carol Sills Strickland), ''Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition'' (2008)
Various articles on urban education and civil rights.

References

External links

Biography at National Symposium for World Class Education in Illinois.
{{DEFAULTSORT:Payne, Charles M. Syracuse University alumni Northwestern University alumni Williams College faculty Haverford College faculty Duke University faculty University of Chicago faculty 1948 births Living people Historians of the civil rights movement