Start Where You Are, but Don't Stay There, Second Edition

H. Richard Milner IV is Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education and Professor of Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He holds courtesy professorships in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Vanderbilt. His research, teaching, and policy interests concern urban education, teacher education, African American literature, and the social context of education. Professor Milner’s research and scholarly contributions have been recognized by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) with an Early Career Award and an Innovations in Research on Diversity in Teacher Education Award. In 2018, he was selected as the youngest ever to give the prestigious AERA Brown vs. Board of Education lecture to a record number of attendees in Washington, DC. He is also a Fellow of AERA and has received the Carl A. Grant Multicultural Award from the National Association for Multicultural Education as well as the John Dewey Society Outstanding Achievement Award for efforts to relate research to practice. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Urban Education and has published seven books, including Rac(e)ing to Class: Confronting Poverty and Race in Schools and Classrooms (Harvard Education Press, 2015), “These Kids Are Out of Control”: Why We Must Reimagine “Classroom Management” for Equity (Corwin Press, 2018), and the Handbook of Urban Education (Routledge Press, 2014). Professor Milner consults with schools, districts, and universities. He can be reached at h.richardmilner@gmail.com.

"The book is at once empirical, theoretical, and practical: it is accessible and compelling to a variety of audiences, and its ideas and conclusions are clearly supported by Milner’s own research and experiences, as well as research in the field." —Teachers College Record