Adelman, Cliff
Name: Cliff Adelman
Institute for Higher Education Policy
Contact: 202-861-8223, x 228
Expertise: Drop-outs, remedial education, education research
Cliff Adelman is a senior associate at the Institute for Higher Education Policy. He's taught at Roosevelt University, CCNY and Yale and served as an associate dean at William Paterson College of New Jersey before coming to the about-to-be born U.S. Department of Education in the fall of 1979 on a one-year fellowship. He stayed for 26 more years, turning out 20 research monographs on higher education and secondary/postsecondary transitions, three national longitudinal studies databases, dozens of articles in the trade and general press in the process, and, when allowed by Ed officials hundreds of interviews with education reporters. He wrote the background study on which A Nation at Risk commission based its high school curriculum recommendations and designed and served as staff director for its higher education fellow up.
