McRAH Evaluators

External Evaluator Gary J. Kornblith (B.A., Amherst College; Ph.D. Princeton University), is Professor of History at Oberlin College, where he teaches "American History to 1877: A Multimedia Approach," among other courses. From 1997 to 2000 he was Director of the Oberlin Center for Technologically Enhanced Teaching (OCTET). In 1997-98, he served as project director of "Oberlin History as American History," a series of workshops for Oberlin public school teachers funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He was co-recipient of the 1998 Service to Education Award presented by the Oberlin Ohio Education Association. His recent publications include The Industrial Revolution in America (Houghton Mifflin, 1998), "Dynamic Syllabi for Dummies: Posting Class Assignments on the World Wide Web," Journal of American History 84 (March 1998): 1447-1453; and "Teaching the American History Survey at the Opening of the Twenty-first Century: A Round Table Discussion," Journal of American History 87 (March 2001): 1409-1441. Kornblith has given many invited talks on the uses of technology in teaching.

Gary Kornblith and Carol Lasser, professors of American History at Oberlin College, serve as McRAH's external evaluators.

External Evaluator Carol Lasser (B.A., University of Pennsylvania); Ph.D., Harvard University) is Professor of History at Oberlin College. She teaches American women's history, slavery and antislavery in American history, the history of American reform movements, and Oberlin history, and has worked closely with the Oberlin public schools for several years, co-founding the Oberlin Technology Institute, which trains local teachers in educational uses of technology. She was co-recipient of the Oberlin Ohio Education Association Service to Education Award (1998), and is the founding director of OCEAN: Oberlin College Educational Alliance Network, which promotes college-level instruction in under-resourced high schools. Lasser's publications include Friends and Sisters: Letters Between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell (University of Illinois Press, 1987); Educating Men and Women Together: Coeducation in a Changing World University of Illinois Press, 1987); and "Teaching the American History Survey at the Opening of the Twenty-first Century: A Round Table Discussion," Journal of American History 87 (March 2001): 1409-1441. She serves on the editorial board of The Journal of the Early Republic and has participated in numerous accreditation teams.

Internal Evaluator Dawn Abt-Perkins (B.S., M.S., Ph.D., University of Wisconsin), is Associate Professor of Education and department chair at Lake Forest College. She is the author of several book chapters in volumes such as Teacher Thinking in Multicultural Contexts and The Heart of the Matter: Teacher Education Reform Perspectives and Possibilities. Her most recent articles appear in Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, English Education, and Teaching Education. Abt-Perkins work focuses on teacher development, instructional supervision, and literacy instruction and achievement issues. She teaches core pedagogical theory and practice across the curriculum, supervises interns and student teachers, and oversees teacher education programs at Lake Forest College. Currently, she is Vice Chair for the Conference on English Education

Dawn Abt-Perkins, associate professor of education at Lake Forest College and chairperson of the department of education, who is the internal evaluator for McRAH.

for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), a policy board on teacher education, and has recently served as co-chair for the Assembly for Research for NCTE.