Jeannie Oakes

Jeannette Louise Oakes (born January 15, 1943; dead April 25, 2024) was an American educational theorist and Presidential Professor Emerita in Educational Equity at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. She was the founder and former director of UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education and Access (IDEA), the former director of the University of California’s All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity (ACCORD), as well as the founding director of Center X, which is UCLA’s reform-focused program for the preparation of teachers and school administrators.

Oakes’s research focused on schooling inequalities and on supporting and documenting activism for social justice. She began her career at RAND Corporation, where she authored ''Keeping Track'', which is the seminal book on ability tracking. Provided by Wikipedia