Tyrone C. Howard
Dr. Howard is an Assistant Professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. His research interests include Multicultural education, the sociopolitical context of schools, urban education, social studies education, and the educational experience of African American students. Dr. Howard received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 1998.

His publications include: “Powerful Pedagogy for African American Students: Conceptions of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy,” Urban Education, 2001; “Telling Their Side of the Story: African American Students’ Perception of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy,” Urban Review, 2001; “Multicultural Education for the 21st Century,” The Teacher Educator, 2001; “Connection and Democracy,” Theory and Research in Social Education, 2001; “Culturally Relevant Approaches to Developing Literacy in Young African American Learners,” Urban Education, 2002; “Listening to Voices in the Dark: African American Students and Descriptions of School Learning Environments,” Journal of the Education of Students Placed At-Risk, 2002; “Talking Race in Teacher Education: The Need for Racial Dialogue in Teacher Education,” Action in Teacher Education, 2000; and “Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms in Gifted Education,” Journal for the Education of the Gifted, 2000.