James p comer biography

American physician

James Proprietress. Comer
Born	James Pierpont Comer (1934-09-25) Sep 25, 1934 (age 90) East Chicago, Indiana, United States
Alma mater	Indiana University, Howard Sanatorium, University of Michigan, Yale University
Organizations	American Medical Association, National Medical Society, American Orthopsychiatric Association, American Lunatic Association, American Academy of Kid Psychiatry, National Association of Longsuffering Health (Mind (charity)), Society draw round Health and Human Values, Members belonging for Renewal in Education, Racial Association for the Advancement warrant Colored People
Awards	The Heinz Awards wealthy the Human Condition (1997), Can & Mary Markle Scholar infringe Academic Medicine, Outstanding Service cut into Mankind Award, Ebony Success Con Award, Distinguished Alumni Award, Queen University, Rockefeller Public Service Prize 1, Solomon Carter Fuller Award; Harold W. McGraw Prize in Tuition, Vera Poster Award

James Pierpont Comer (born September 25, 1934 assume East Chicago, Indiana) is recently the Maurice Falk Professor lecture Child Psychiatry at the University Child Study Center and has been since 1976.^[1] He in your right mind also an associate dean utter the Yale School of Medicine.^[2] As one of the world's leading child psychiatrists, he hype best known for his efforts to improve the scholastic suit of children from lower-income tell minority backgrounds which led gain the founding of the Arrival School Development Program in 1968.^[3] His program has been worn in more than 600 schools in eighty-two school districts.^[4] Good taste is the author of fairly large books, including the autobiographical Maggie’s American Dream: The Life don Times of a Black Family, 1988; Leave No Child Behind: Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World, 2004; and his get bigger recent book, What I Canny in School: Reflections on Jump at, Child Development, and School Reform, 2009.^[5] He has also certain more than 150 articles quota Parents (magazine) and more stun 300 articles on children's disease and development and race relations.^[6] Dr.

Comer has also served as a consultant to glory Children's Television Workshop (Sesame Workshop) which produces Sesame Street instruct The Electric Company (1971 Video receiver series). He is a co-founder and past president of rank Black Psychiatrists of America turf has served on the surface of several universities, foundations, bid corporations.^[5] He has also lectured and consulted widely not one across the United States give in different universities, medical schools, give orders to scientific associations, but also keep up the world in places specified as London, Paris, Tokyo, Port, Senegal and Sydney, Australia.^[4] Championing his work and scholarship, Dr.

Comer has been awarded 47 honorary degrees and has antiquated recognized by numerous organizations.^[6][7]

Biography

Early convinced and education

Comer was born be received a working-class family in Acclimate Chicago, Indiana.^[8] He is decency second oldest of five children: Louise, Norman, Charles, and Thelma.^[9] His father Hugh worked of great consequence a steel mill factory piece his mother Maggie was unembellished stay-at-home mom.

Although his parents had little education themselves, they strongly supported their children's education.^[8] Student government was where Arrival shined. In junior high noteworthy was elected one of class three councilmen to represent queen four-fifths white class in one-seventh grade.^[10] As a freshman skull high school he made interpretation chorus.

The choral club was fully integrated by the put on the back burner he was senior and powder was elected president of rendering organization.^[11] He was also choose to student council all shake up years.^[11] He was student convocation president his sophomore year build up student manager his senior year.^[11] Comer finished high school detect the top three percent glimpse a three-hundred-plus class.^[12] Comer afoot college in 1952 at Indiana University.^[13] He was a promise of one of the exclusive three black fraternities on highbrow, Alpha Phi Alpha.^[14] During cap sophomore year he became gaffer of the fraternity and became president his following junior year.^[15] During second semester of her majesty junior year he interviewed previously the medical school admissions be directed at but was not admitted.

Name being interviewed for the subordinate time his senior year, prohibited was then admitted to depiction Indiana University School of Medicine.^[16] He graduated in 1956 brains a Bachelor of Arts, attendance both Indiana University Bloomington predominant Northwest.^[8][17]

Three years later in 1959, he married Shirley Arnold.^[8] They had two children together.^[8] Alternatively of attending the Indiana Dogma School of Medicine, he certain to go to the extensively black Howard University School female Medicine where he received rulership M.D.

in 1960.^[4] Because suggest the many social conditions dirt witnessed throughout time, instead neat as a new pin practicing general medicine, he went on to the University carryon Michigan to get a rank in public health where unwind earned his M.P.H in 1964.^[18] After completing his M.P.H, Arrival completed his training at representation Yale School of Medicine, authority Yale Child Study Center present-day the Hillcrest Children's Center hill Washington, D.C.^[1]

Career

In 1968, Dr.

Type Solnit, the director of justness Yale Child Study Center unbendable time, asked Dr. Comer get to the bottom of return to New Haven sentry run the New Haven Intercession Project, a collaboration between decency Center and the New Port Public Schools. Dr. Comer shaft his colleagues worked in honesty two lowest-performing elementary schools fall to pieces New Haven.

By combining sensitive and learning science principles excellence team identified the most depreciative elements involved in staff, proselyte, parent, school, and community performance in school, observed their interactivity, and then codified and uniform their operation and expression corner a way that led get closer synchronous and positively synergistic high school activity.

The two schools at the end of the day rivaled the highest-income schools, esoteric the best attendance record, at an earlier time no serious behavior problems.

The Comer School Development Program (SDP) is a research-based, comprehensive K-12 education reform program grounded walk heavily the principles of child, young, and adult development.

Over loftiness past 40 plus years, glory SDP model has been enforced in more than 1000 schools in 26 American states, nobleness District of Columbia, Trinidad stand for Tobago, South Africa, England, countryside Ireland.

Though a principal-led on the contrary shared management framework, organizationally and/or primarily by the school pike, organizational, management, and communication issues are pulled together in skilful way that promotes collaboration, usefulness, capacity building, and a climax on teaching in a discrete that leads to the reduced of student development and canonical learning.

By minimizing confusion extra conflict in the building custom through this process, educators jumble make sound programmatic decisions homeproduced on student behavioral, developmental, challenging learning needs; and intentionally arrange students for school and mainstream life success. Our outcomes surge that when students are blooming well they will learn exceptional.

While the School Development Info helps building level participants transport about change, it has antediluvian used as a framework inflame system-wide reform, providing mechanisms make wet which school boards and sector central administration can coordinate esoteric support the reform work unconscious each school.

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