Angela Valenzuela

Director of the University of Texas Center for Education Policy

Angela Valenzuela is a professor in both the Educational Policy and Planning program areas within the Department of Educational Administration and the Cultural Studies in Education Program within the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also serves as the director of the University of Texas Center for Education Policy.

A Stanford University graduate, her previous teaching positions were in Sociology at Rice University in Houston, Texas (1990–98), as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Houston (1998–99). In 2007, as a Fulbright Scholar she taught in the College of Law at the University of Guanajuato in Mexico. Valenzuela is also the author of award-winning book Subtractive Schooling: U.S.–Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring (1999) and Leaving Children Behind: How “Texas-Style” Accountability Fails Latino Youth (2004). Valenzuela’s research and teaching interests are in the sociology of education, race and ethnic relations, education policy, school partnerships, urban education reform, and indigenous education.