Ashbel Smith Professor of Education Policy at The University of Texas at Austin
About
Dr. Reyes is personally and professionally passionate about education research and the craft of teaching. In his writing, Dr. Reyes focuses on student success, particularly for children living in poverty, and he has had articles appear in several prestigious journals, including Educational Administration Quarterly, the High School Journal, Journal of Educational Research, and the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Reyes has authored several books, including Resiliency and Success: Migrant Children in the US (2004); Lessons from High Poverty High Performance Schools: Creating Learning Communities (1999); and Teachers and Their Workplace: Commitment, Performance, and Productivity (1990). In addition, Dr. Reyes has authored numerous scholarly articles, book chapters, and monographs, including a significant number of papers presented at national and international academic conferences, and held positions with many scholarly journals, including editor of the book review section of Educational Researcher and associate editor of the International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
Dr. Reyes has raised more than $23 million in research development grants from foundations including: The Spencer Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation, the Texas Education Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Houston Endowment, Inc., The Brown Foundation, and the US Department of Education. He was selected as a fellow of the National Academy of Education, the highest national honor awarded to educators in the United States, and holds the Ashbel Smith Professor in Education Policy and Administration at UT Austin. Reyes began his career as an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Kansas at Lawrence from 1985-87.
Current Work:
Dr. Reyes is working on a longitudinal research project that includes data at the unit level from Texas public schools all the way thru employment. He will be modeling the data to understand the key transition points that make a difference in student success for children of poverty and underrepresented minorities in postsecondary education.
Research Area Keyword(s):
Policy, student success, inequality, public schools, children of poverty
