Stuck in the Shallow End, updated edition

Rachel Estrella is an education researcher, curriculum developer, facilitator, and teacher. She holds a Ph.D. in Education from the University of California, Los Angeles, and bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Mass Communications from the University of California, Berkeley. She has more than 20 years of experience in research and evaluation, with work spanning education, youth development, racial equity, health equity, and community change.

Estrella is a co-author of Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing, written with Jane Margolis, Joanna Goode, Jennifer Jellison Holme, and Kimberly Nao. Originally published by MIT Press in 2008, the book received an updated second edition in 2017 and examines racial, socioeconomic, and gender disparities in access to computer science education.

Joanna Goode is the Sommerville Knight Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development in the College of Education at the University of Oregon. She began her career as a high school computer science teacher and researches equity, access, and inclusion in K–12 computer science education. Goode has directed National Science Foundation–supported research projects and helped develop the equity-focused Exploring Computer Science curriculum and professional development program.

Goode is co-author, with Jane Margolis, Rachel Estrella, Jennifer Jellison Holme, and Kimberly Nao, of Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing, originally published in 2008 and revised in 2017. She holds a PhD and MEd from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jennifer Jellison Holme is a professor of educational policy and planning in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines the politics and implementation of educational policy, including school reform, equity, diversity, school desegregation, school choice, high-stakes testing, teacher turnover, and the relationship between housing and educational opportunity. She previously worked as a third-grade teacher in Los Angeles.

Holme earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology from UCLA, an Ed.M. in administration, planning, and social policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. in education policy from UCLA. She is a coauthor of Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing, including its updated edition, and has published in journals such as Educational Researcher, Teachers College Record, Educational Policy, Educational Administration Quarterly, and the American Educational Research Journal.

Kim Nao is a coauthor of Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing, originally published by MIT Press in 2008 and released in an updated edition in 2017. The book examines racial and socioeconomic inequalities in access to computer science education, drawing on research conducted in three Los Angeles public high schools.

Publicly available sources identify Nao as part of the UCLA-based research team that investigated which students were—and were not—learning computer science in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Stuck in the Shallow End is the only published book attributed to Nao in the available sources.