Jeannie Oakes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jeannie Oakes

Emerita professor of University of California

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1943

Place of Birth: San Diego, California, United States

Profession: university teacher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Jeannette Louise Oakes (born January 15, 1943) is an American educational theorist and Presidential Professor Emerita in Educational Equity at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies.
She was the founder and former director of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA), the former director of the University of California’s All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (ACCORD), as well as the founding director of Center X, which is UCLA’s reform-focused program for the preparation of teachers and school administrators.Oakes’s research focuses on schooling inequalities and on supporting and documenting activism for social justice.
She began her career at RAND Corporation, where she authored Keeping Track, which is the seminal book on ability tracking.