Gail L. Sunderman

Gail L. Sunderman is a Research Associate in K-12 Education for the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University. Her research focuses on educational policy and politics, and urban school reform, including the development and implementation of education policy and the impact of policy on the educational opportunities for at-risk students. At the Civil Rights Project, she is involved in a five-year study examining the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Prior research includes studies on the implementation of Title I schoolwide programs, governance reform in the Chicago Public Schools, and understanding institutional and organizational constraints on implementing school reform initiatives. Her work has appeared in Educational Policy, Administration Quarterly, and thePeabody Journal of Education. Before joining the Civil Rights Project she was a researcher for the American Institutes for Research and the Center for the Social Organization of Schools at Johns Hopkins University. She received her Ph.D. in political science and M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago.