Ginger Cook

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Ginger Cook
Teacher on Special Assignment, Acorn Woodland Elementary School,
Oakland Unified School District

Ginger Cook is a teacher on special assignment at Acorn Woodland Elementary School in the Oakland Unified School District, where she was also a third grade teacher. She formerly supported the Center for the Collaborative Classroom as regional director, national education consultant, and state and district partnerships manager. She was also a research assistant at Stanford University in the Center for Research on the Context of Teaching, focused on teaching in New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Cook received her PhD in education from Stanford Graduate School of Education.

updated 2002

Publications by Ginger Cook
Mothers and Young Children Move Through Welfare Reform
Policy leaders in Washington and the states are engaging a new debate over an old question: How can society best aid jobless mothers and enrich their children’s lives? The dramatic reform of family welfare policies in 1996, aided by robust economic…
Mothers and Young Children Move Through Welfare Reform: Executive Summary
Policy leaders in Washington and the states are engaging a new debate over an old question: How can society best aid jobless mothers and enrich their children’s lives? The dramatic reform of family welfare policies in 1996, aided by robust economic…