Dillard receives Trueba award from AERA

The American Educational Research Association has given Cynthia Dillard the Henry T. Trueba Award for Research Leading to the Transformation of the Social Contexts of Education. This award recognizes a scholar (or group of scholars) who has made “distinguished contributions leading to the transformation of the social contexts of education.”

Trueba was known as an advocate for expanding learning opportunities for those in the greatest need and for developing the talent of immigrant and marginalized populations.