He said that, while the Comer SDP was one of several programs to emerge from the comprehensive school reform movement that began in the 1960s and peaked in the 1990s, it clearly stood out from the others by originating at a medical school. Education Department and recalled the SDP qualifying for federal funding. Kent McGuire, president of the Southern Education Foundation, worked in the Clinton administration in the U.S.
Comer was doing in a very systematic way for years,” she explains.ĭr. … We talk about and have learned about how important community and family engagement are as ways to improve schools. “We talk really freely now about things like ‘social and emotional learning.’ We even call it SEL. “ was at least 20 years ahead of his time,” says Ucelli-Kashyap, who is now the assistant to the president for educational issues at the American Federation of Teachers. His work has earned him 48 honorary degrees and numerous awards, including the John Hope Franklin Award from Diverse. “He was there when you think about the concept of developing the whole child, the importance of social and emotional development, the linkage between academic and social development.”Ī speaker in high demand and a prolific writer, Comer anticipated the nation’s rapid demographic changes and the pressing need to develop high-quality elementary and secondary schools. “ been at this for so long and his role has been so seminal …,” says Price. Hugh Price, the former president and CEO of the National Urban League and a longtime Comer friend, says it was quite evident in 20 when he co-chaired the Association for Curriculum Development’s Commission on the Whole Child that Comer’s child development ideas proved compelling as ever. “There’s more interest in our work now within the last two years” than ever since the 2002 enactment of the No Child Left Behind federal legislation, he adds. “We’re experiencing a revival,” says Comer, who is the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine’s Child Study Center.
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