Eva Travers
Career:
Professor Emeritus, Swarthmore College. Taught at the College for 33 years in Education. Chair of the Department for 20 years. Associate Dean of the College for 3 years. Areas of teaching specialization: Urban Education, Educational Policy and Teacher Education. Areas of research: political and personal development of women, teacher education, civic education in Hungary, and urban educational reform efforts. Recipient of Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching at Swarthmore College. Former social studies teacher and evaluator in an alternative school in Philadelphia and consultant to desegregation efforts in Boston. Currently working part-time as a Senior Research Consultant at Research for Action, a nonprofit educational organization in Philadelphia.
Education:
Connecticut College (B. A. 1964), Harvard Graduate School of Education (M.A.T. 1966), Harvard Graduate School of Education (Ed.D. 1973)
Why are you a Prospect Hill Academy Trustee?
"As an educator and educational researcher, I am interested in the potential of the charter school movement as both a positive and negative force in progressive educational reform. PHA is a school that stands out for its positive contributions to public education. PHA Charter School is a learning community that nourishes its faculty and students and offers a rigorous, stimulating education that is guided by values that I believe must be at the heart of effective schooling. I was introduced to PHA by my niece, who worked as a Biology teacher at the school for four years."