Theresa Perry

Theresa Perry is Professor of Africana Studies and Education at Simmons College. She is co-author of Young, Gifted and Black , and co-editor of The Real Ebonics Debate , among other books. She is faculty director of the Simmons College/Beacon Press Race, Education and Democracy Lecture and Book Series. Claude M. Steele is a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. He is best known for his work on stereotype threat and its application to minority student academic performance. He has served as the I. James Quillen Dean for the School of Education at Stanford University, the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at UC Berkeley, and the 21st Provost of Columbia University. Asa Hilliard, III (1933-2007) was the Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Urban Education at Georgia State University. In addition to being a founding member of the Association for the Study of Classical African Civilizations, he served as an expert witness in federal cases on test validity and consulted to schools in Liberia, West Africa.