William Tate holds numerous leadership positions in organizations
focused on advancing human development broadly defi ned. In
2006, he was elected to serve as the President of the American
Educational Research Association (AERA). His Washington University
leadership portfolio includes serving as Chair of the Department of
Education and as a member of the executive committee of three
academic programs—American Culture Studies, Applied Statistics
and Computation, and Urban Studies. Additional responsibilities
include serving as the chair of the executive committee of the Center
on Urban Research and Public Policy. His other university leadership
includes serving as a participating faculty member in the Audiology
and Communication Sciences program at the Washington University
School of Medicine.
Professor Tate serves as the principal investigator of the St. Louis
Center for Inquiry in Science Teaching and Learning. The center
is a multidisciplinary effort to build sustainable models of human
resource development in the sciences and to integrate these models
into the cultural resources of an urban community. Professor Tate
is co-principal investigator of the National Center for Culturally
Responsive Educational Systems, a project funded by the U.S.
Department of Education’s Offi ce of Special Education Programs.
The center provides technical assistance and targets improvements
in culturally responsive practices, early intervention, literacy, and
positive behavioral models to support the academic achievement of
students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and
their peers.
He has authored scores of scholarly journal articles, book chapters,
edited volumes, monographs, and textbooks focused on human
resource development in mathematics, science, technology
education, urban studies, and race and American education.
He is an author of Silver Burdett Ginn Mathematics ©2000,
Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley Mathematics ©2005, Scott
Foresman Science ©2006, and Scott Foresman - Addison Wesley
enVisionMATH ©2009.
