Life Chances of Adolescents: Louis Gomez PhD

On February 22, 2005, Professor Louis M. Gomez of Northwestern University visited Vanderbilt to discuss "Working to Improve Life Chances of Adolescents: The Impact of Small Learning Communities in One Urban High School. As a Professor of Learning Sciences and professor of computer science at Northwestern University where he is also the learning science program director Professor Gomez primary interest lies in working with school communities to create social arrangements and curriculum that support school reform. Via collaborative research and development with urban schools, he and his colleagues have sought to transform instruction and support community formation by bringing the current state-of-the-art in computing and networking technologies into pervasive use in urban schools. Prior to joining the faculty at Northwestern, Professor Gomez was director of human-computer systems research at Bellcore in Morristown, New Jersey. At Bellcore, he pursued an active research program investigating techniques that improve human use of information retrieval systems and techniques that aid in the acquisition of complex computer-based skills.

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