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June 2007 > Faculty > Honors
Linn Elected to National Academy of Education
Graduate School of Education professor Marcia Linn has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Education (NAEd).
The Academy consists of up to 200 U.S. members and up to 25 foreign associates who are elected on the basis of outstanding scholarship or outstanding contributions to education. Founded in 1965, the mission of NAEd is to advance the highest quality of education research and its use in policy formation and practice. Since its establishment, the Academy has sponsored a variety of commissions and study panels that have published influential proceedings and reports.
Linn is the seventh member of UC Berkeley’s School of Education to be selected. Other members are Andrea diSessa, Judith Warren Little, P. David Pearson, Geoffrey Saxe and Alan Schoenfeld. K. Patricia Cross is an emerita member of the National Academy.
A professor in Cognition and Development, Linn directs one of the 13 Centers for Learning and Teaching funded by the National Science Foundation: the Technology-Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) center and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She investigates science teaching and learning, gender equity and design of learning environments.
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