Robert E. Slavin

Robert Slavin is Co-Director of the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk, Johns Hopkins University, and Chairman of the Success for All Foundation. He received his Ph.D. in Social Relations from Johns Hopkins in 1975, and since that time he has authored more than 200 articles and book chapters on such topics as cooperative learning, ability grouping, school and classroom organization, desegregation, mainstreaming, and research review. Dr. Slavin is the author or coauthor of 15 books, including Cooperative Learning, School and Classroom Organization, Effective Programs for Students at Risk, Preventing Early School Failure, and Every Child, Every School: Success for All. In 1985 Dr. Slavin received the Raymond Cattell Early Career Award for Programmatic Research from the American Educational Research Association. In 1988 he received the Palmer O. Johnson Award for the best article in an AERA journal. In 1994 he received the Charles A. Dana Award, and in 1998 he received the James Bryant Conant Award from the Education Commission of the States. Dr. Slavin is pictured here with his daughter Becca.