Charles Tesconi

Research and Teaching Interests: linkages among socioeconomic status, education policy, and opportunity. Tesconi's current project is a study of child poverty and its relationship to educational opportunity in the United States.

Noted publications: author or coauthor of six books and numerous articles emphasizing the relation between socioeconomic background and educational opportunity. His most recent book, Good Schools (Hampton Press), examines the local policy environments of public schools unusually successful with economically poor students.

Former positions: Dean of the School of Education at American University from 1989-1993 and from 1996-2000; Dean of the College of Education and Social Services and Professor of Education at the University of Vermont (1978-1989); served on the faculties of Ithaca College, University of Illinois (Chicago), and has been a Visiting Professor at the Ohio State University.