Gerald LeTendre

Professor of Education and International Affairs
Department Head, Education Policy Studies

Educational Theory & Policy
Comparative & International Education
310G Rackley Building
University Park, PA 16802-3203
Email: letendre@psu.edu
Phone: 814-863-3771
Fax: 814-865-1480

Introduction

Dr. LeTendre has extensive experience with cross-national, qualitative studies. Dr. LeTendre has worked on both The Third International Math-Science Study (TIMSS) and the IEA Civic Education Project, looking at issues of achievement and socialization among early adolescents, and has been a consultant to the Board on International and Comparative Education of the National Research Council.

Areas of Expertise

• Teacher Work Roles
• Comparative Education
• Young Adolescents and Schools

Publications (Full CV available here)

• Author of Learning to be Adolescent: Growing Up in U.S. and Japanese Middle Schools (Yale University Press)
• Co-author, with Dr. Baker, of National Differences, Global Similarities

Professional Experience & Activities 

• Senior Fulbright Scholar
• Spencer Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the National Academy of Education
• Senior researcher on a three-year joint National Science Foundation/Fund for the Improvement of Education Grant which supports analysis of the Third International Math-Science Study

Honors & Awards

Recipient of a Japan Foundation Fellowship for his dissertation work, a Johann Jacobs Young Scholar Award and a National Academy of Education/Spencer Post-doctoral Fellow

Education

• Ph.D in Education from Stanford University
• Master in Sociology from Stanford University
• B.A. in sociology from Harvard University