Russell W. Rumberger

Russell Rumberger
Russell W. Rumberger
Professor Emeritus,
University of California, Santa Barbara

Russell W. Rumberger is professor emeritus in the Gevirtz School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research has focused on such topics as education and work, disadvantaged students, school effectiveness, education policy, and school dropouts. He was director of the California Dropout Research Project and a member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Increasing High School Students’ Engagement and Motivation to Learn; he served on the panel of the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences that produced the Dropout Prevention Practice Guide. Rumberger is author of the book Dropping Out: Why Students Drop Out of High School and What Can Be Done About It. He received his PhD in education from Stanford University.

updated 2020

Publications by Russell W. Rumberger
Are the Reform Pieces Fitting Together?
"Crucial Issues in California Education 2000" is a successor to "Conditions of Education," a PACE publication since 1984. Conditions combined up-to-date data and ongoing trends in a wide variety of indicators relevant to state education policy. In…
Although school dropout remains an important policy issue and has generated considerable research, little of this research has examined dropout as a measure of school performance. Even less attention has been paid to student turnover, another…
Although all students change schools when they are promoted from one school level to another, some students also move from one school to another for reasons other than promotion. The practice of students making non-promotional school changes is…
Although all students change schools when they are promoted from one school level to another, some students also move from one school to another for reasons other than promotion. The practice of students making non-promotional school changes is…