Educational Background

• PhD, Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• MA, Psychology, Swarthmore College
• BA, Psychology, Swarthmore College

Teaching Profession
Courses regularly taught
• Research Process in Education
• Crucial Issues in Education
• Applied Research Techniques
• Seminar on Quantitative Research

Current Research Interests
• Equal opportunity and school reform
• Historical and contemporary patterns of educational achievement

• Transformation of the high school during the 20th century

Selected Publications
• Stedman, L. C. (2003). Brilliant success and persistent failure: U.S. educational achievement in the 20th century. In R. Weissberg, H. Walberg, M. O'Brien, & C. Bartels-Kuster (Eds.), Long-term trends in the well-being of children and youth, (Chapter 3). Washington, D.C.: Child Welfare League of America Press.
• Stedman, L. C. (1998). An assessment of the contemporary debate over U.S. achievement. In D. Ravitch (Ed.), Brookings papers on education policy: 1998, (pp. 53-121). Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution.
• Stedman, L. C. (1997). International achievement differences: An assessment of a new perspective. Educational Researcher, 26(3), 4-15. See Research Highlights to read more about this article.
• Stedman, L. C. (1996). Respecting the evidence: The achievement crisis remains real. [Review of The manufactured crisis.] Education Policy Analysis Archives, 4(7). http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v4n7.html
• Kaestle, C., Damon-Moore, H., Stedman, L., Tinsley, K., & Trollinger, W. (1991). Literacy in the United States: Readers and reading since 1880. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Selected Recognitions
• University and Chancellor's Awards for Excellence in Teaching, 1995
• National Academy of Education Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1994