Robert Slavin

About our author Robert Slavin is director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education, Johns Hopkins University and is a cofounder of the Success for All Foundation. He received his PhD in Social Relations from Johns Hopkins in 1975, and since that time he has authored more than 300 articles and book chapters on such topics as cooperative learning, comprehensive school reform, ability grouping, school and classroom organization, desegregation, mainstreaming, research review and evidence...See more

About our author Robert Slavin is director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education, Johns Hopkins University and is a cofounder of the Success for All Foundation. He received his PhD in Social Relations from Johns Hopkins in 1975, and since that time he has authored more than 300 articles and book chapters on such topics as cooperative learning, comprehensive school reform, ability grouping, school and classroom organization, desegregation, mainstreaming, research review and evidence-based reform. Dr. Slavin is the author or coauthor of 20 books, including Cooperative Learning, School and Classroom Organization, Effective Programs for Students at Risk, Preventing Early School Failure, Show Me the Evidence: Proven and Promising Programs for Americas Schools, Two Million Children: Success for All, Effective Programs for Latino Students and Educational Research in the Age of Accountability. In 1985, Dr. Slavin received the Raymond Cattell Early Career Award for Programmatic Research from the American Educational Research Association. In 1988, he received the Palmer O. Johnson Award for the best article in an AERA journal. In 1994, he received the Charles A. Dana Award, in 1998, he received the James Bryant Conant Award from the Education Commission of the States, and in 2000, he received the Distinguished Services Award from the Council of Chief State School Officers. He again received the Palmer O. Johnson Award for the best article in an AERA journal in 2008 and received the AERA Review of Research Award in 2009. He was elected an AERA Fellow in 2010. More recently, Dr. Slavin received the E. L. Thorndike Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association in 2017, the Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health in 2018 and the American Educational Research Associations Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education Award in 2019. See less