Kris D. Gutiérrez is an American professor of learning sciences and

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. She currently holds the Carol Liu Chair in Educational Policy at the

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and formerly held the Inaugural Provost's Chair at

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. She is professor emerita of the

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. She has specialized in "culture and learning in urban schools," according to the ''

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''. She is a member of th
National Academy of Education
In April 2020, Gutiérrez was elected as a member of th
American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Biography

Gutiérrez grew up in Miami, Arizona. Her father worked in a nearby

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. Gutiérrez earned her master's degree from

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and earned her Ph.D. from the

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. She started working in the education department of the

(UCLA) in 1989. She earned the 1997 Distinguished Teaching Award from UCLA. At UCLA she helped create a computer learning club for elementary students and worked on the Migrant Student Leadership Institute for students from the migrant farm-working community. Students from the Migrant Student Leadership Institute were more likely to apply to college and be accepted than a

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. Gutiérrez also studied the effects of Proposition 227 in California in three different school districts after the law was passed in 1998. When President

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was transitioning to the

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, she was part of the transition team. In 2012, Obama appointed her to the board of directors of the National Board for Education Sciences. Gutiérrez earned the C Sylvia Scribner Award in 2005 from the

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(AERA). She earned the 2007 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Committee on Scholars of Color in Education. In 2009, ''Hispanic Business Magazine'' listed her as one of the top 100 influential

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people in the United States. Also in 2009, she became the president-elect of AERA. In 2014 Gutiérrez was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from AERA. The Same year, she was honored with the Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education. She has been published in ''

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'', '' Mind, Culture, and Activity'', '' Harvard Educational Review'', '' Reading Research Quarterly'', ''Theory Into Practice'', ''Linguistics and Education'', ''Language Arts'', '' Review of Research in Education'', ''Research in the Teaching of English'', the ''Journal of Teacher Education'', and other publications.

References

External links

CLRN Interview
(2013 video) {{DEFAULTSORT:Gutiérrez, Kris People from Miami, Arizona Arizona State University alumni University of Colorado Boulder alumni University of Colorado Boulder faculty UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies faculty American women academics