James R. Stone III

James R. Stone, III is a Distinguished University Scholar at the University of Louisville. A professor of Work and Human Resource Education, he is also the Director of the National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, a position he has held since 2002. Previously, Stone held professorial rank at the University of Minnesota and before that, the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His scholarly work focuses on connecting education for youth and adults to the workplace. He has published more than 100 journal articles, books and book chapters, and reports of research, more than a dozen of which have received national awards. Because of his expertise in this field, Stone is asked to provide advice to such organizations as the National Science Foundation, the National Center for Education Statistics, the ERIC system, the National Academies of Science, many states’ education departments, and large urban school districts’ agencies.

Frequently called upon to keynote state and national conferences and participate in international conferences and meetings, Stone has delivered more than 200 speeches and presentations of research in the past decade.