Charles M. Payne | |
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.jpg) Payne in 2016 | |
| Born | (1948-03-14)March 14, 1948 (age 77) |
| Alma mater | Syracuse University Northwestern University |
| Occupation | Academic |
Charles M. Payne Jr. (born March 14, 1948) is an American academic whose areas of study include civil rights activism, urban education reform, social inequality, and modernAfrican-American history. He was the Chief Education Officer forChicago Public Schools.[1]
Charles Payne received a Bachelor's Degree in Afro-American studies fromSyracuse University in 1970 and a Ph.D in sociology fromNorthwestern University in 1976.[2] He has held professorial positions and endowed chairs at several American institutions, among themSouthern University,Williams College,Haverford College, Northwestern,Duke University, where he held the Sally Dalton Robinson Chair for Teaching Excellence, and the Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service Professor in the School of Social Service Administration (nowCrown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice).[3]
Payne has also been active in the creation and direction of several organizations intended to address issues of social justice. He is the founding director of the Urban Education Project inOrange, New Jersey, a community-based effort to provide advanced career training for local youth. While at Duke, he co-founded theJohn Hope Franklin Scholars, a program that helps Durham-area high schoolers prepare for and apply to college.[4] His other projects have included the Duke Curriculum Project, the Education for Liberators Network, and work with the Chicago Algebra Project and with the Steering Committee for the Consortium on Chicago School Research.
His most recent books areSo Much Reform, So Little Change (Harvard Education Publication Group, 2008) and an anthology about the African-American tradition of education for liberation entitledTeach Freedom (Teacher's College Press, 2008).[3]
