Amanda Datnow
Professor and Director
- Email:
- adatnow@ucsd.edu
- Phone:
- (858) 534-9598
Amanda Datnow is Professor and Director of Education Studies at UCSD. Prior to joining the faculty at UCSD in 2008, she was most recently a professor at the USC Rossier School of Education, where she chaired the Ph.D. program and was Associate Director of the Center on Educational Governance. Earlier in her career she was on the faculties at University of Toronto and Johns Hopkins University. She received her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA and is a proud former Triton, having received her B.A. from UCSD (Third College) in 1990.
Her research focuses on the politics and policies of school reform, particularly with regard to the professional lives of educators and issues of equity. Sociological perspectives inform her research on these topics, and her methods are mostly qualitative. She has conducted prior studies on district-wide reform, comprehensive school reform, and on the intersection of gender and educational reform. Most of her current work is on data driven decision making in urban schools. She is on the editorial boards of several journals and consults for numerous professional organizations and government agencies.
