ABout Stephen Plank
Stephen Plank
Associate Professor of Sociology,
Research Scientist, BERC,
Johns Hopkins University
Stephen Plank, Ph.D. is an associate professor in The Johns Hopkins University’s Department of Sociology. He serves as co-director of the recently formed Baltimore Education Research Consortium (www.baltimore-berc.org), a partnership of the Baltimore City Public Schools, Johns Hopkins University, Morgan State University, and other partners. Plank received his doctorate in sociology from the University of Chicago (1995). He received a bachelor’s degree in mathematical methods in the social sciences, and sociology, from Northwestern University (1990). His published research includes Finding One’s Place: Teaching Styles and Peer Relations in Diverse Classrooms (Teachers College Press, 2000), and articles in the American Educational Research Journal, Teachers College Record, Journal of Vocational Education Research, Sociology of Education, and American Journal of Education. Much of his research focuses on solutions to the problem of high school dropouts, predictors of successful transitions to college, and school climate.