Suzanne Grant Lewis

Suzanne Grant Lewis "is the Coordinator of the Partnership for Higher Education in Africa [as of Feb 2006], a collaboration of seven US foundations supporting the transformation of higher education in nine African countries. She is a Research Scholar at the NYU Steinhardt School of Education.

"Dr. Grant Lewis was a Harvard faculty member 1997-2006, where she co-developed and directed the International Education Policy Program. Her research focuses on policy efforts to address educational inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa . She has a long-term commitment to developing educational research capacity in sub-Saharan Africa.

"Grant Lewis has published on the notion of participation in school governance, South Africa 's education decentralization, the promotion of democratic decision-making in education, the role of microcomputers in African development, and the national primary learning assessment in Namibia.

"Dr. Grant Lewis spent over five years in southern Africa as an advisor on research, policy, and planning to the Namibian and Malawian ministries of education and worked in various capacities in Kenya and Tanzania for six years. She earned her Ph D from Stanford University and has been awarded Fulbright fellowships for research ( Tanzania ) and teaching ( South Africa )."

"Grant Lewis has written on the notion of participation in school governance, the promotion of democratic decision-making in education, the role of microcomputers in African development, and the first national primary assessment in Namibia. She recently edited two volumes of research, Informing Reform. Namibian Research to Inform Education Policy and Practice."

"She manages the Partnership Office at NYU, including budget, staff, graduate interns and consultants, and supervises the multi-year Partnership fund at the Institute of International Education.

"Prior to joining the Partnership, Dr. Grant Lewis was a Harvard University faculty member from 1997, where she co-developed and directed the International Education Policy Program. She served on the Board of Directors of the Radcliffe Consortium for Women's Studies and speaks frequently on gender and education issues in the developing world. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, Dr. Grant Lewis spent over five years in southern Africa, serving as an advisor on research, policy, and planning to the Namibian and Malawian ministries of education. In Malawi she was Team Leader of a girls' education project focused on policy, planning and curriculum. She has also lived and worked in Kenya and Tanzania for six years. Her research focuses on policy efforts to address educational inequalities in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Grant Lewis's recent publications are on concepts of participation in school governance, education decentralization, and graduate teaching of international education."


 * Director, Grace Foundation

Books

 * Samoff, Joel. & Lewis, Suzanne Grant. 1992  Microcomputers in African development : critical perspectives / edited by Suzanne Grant Lewis and Joel Samoff   Westview Press, Boulder, Colo. :

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