Carol A. Tomlinson
William Clay Parrish Jr. Professor Emeritus
- Ed.D., University of Virginia, 1991
- M.Ed., University of Virginia, 1972
- B.A., University of South Carolina, 1965
Carol A. Tomlinson, Ed.D., is William Clay Parrish, Jr. Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia’s School of Education where she served as Chair of Educational Leadership, Foundations, and Policy, and Co-Director of the University’s Institutes on Academic Diversity. Prior to joining the faculty at UVa, she was a public school teacher for 21 years. She was Virginia’s Teacher of the Year in 1974. At UVa, she was named Outstanding Professor in 2004 and received an All-University Teaching Award in 2008. In 2019, she was ranked #8 in the Education Week Edu-Scholar Public Presence Rankings of 200 “University-based academics who are contributing most substantially to public debates about schools and schooling,” and as the #3 voice in Educational Psychology. Her books on differentiation have been translated into 14 languages. Among those books is Assessment in a Differentiated Classroom: A Guide for Student Success, which she co-authored with Tonya R. Moon.
Research Interests
Major research interests include differentiation of instruction for academically diverse learners including teacher and administrator attitudes and practices related to academic diversity, impacts of initial teacher preparation on novice teacher readiness to teach in academically diverse settings, impacts of varied school and teaching practices on low income and minority learners, and the change process in schools moving toward more academically responsive classrooms. More recently, she has also begun studying differentiation at the university level in teacher education as well as other disciplines.
Resources
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- Nine UVA Education Faculty, 3 Alumni Named to Influential Scholars List
- Nine Curry Faculty Named in 2016 Edu-Scholar Rankings, 2 In The Top 20
- Faculty in Print 2015
- Curry Dominates Edu-Scholars List
- Nine UVA Scholars Ranked in 2019 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings
- Back-To-School Tools for Those Who Support Students
- Renowned Educator and Scholar Carol Tomlinson Defined a New Way of Teaching
- Faculty Conversation: Carol Tomlinson on Differentiation
- UVA Education Scholars Rise in 2020 Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings
- Ten UVA Scholars Ranked in 2021 EDU-Scholar Public Influence Rankings
- UVA Professors Climb in Rankings of Nation’s Most Influential Education Scholars