Robert Slater

Robert O. Slater is a professor of education who does research and writes on educational leadership, democracy and human development in K-12 and higher education.  A Fulbright scholar to Peru in 1996, to Bolivia in 2010, and to Greece in 2018, he taught at the University of Maryland, Louisiana State University, and Texas A&M before joining the faculty at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2007. He has lectured on educational leadership, democracy and human development at the Catholic University in Lima, Peru, as well as the Catholic University in Lapaz, Bolivia. From 1986-1988, he was a Senior Research Associate at the U.S. Department of Education where he directed the Department’s educational leadership initiatives. In 2003, he met by invitation with A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, President of India, to discuss plans for educational reform. Subsequently, President Kalam included the main points of their conversation in his speeches on education, a sample of which can be found here.
Dr. Slater is a member of the American Educational Research Association(AERA), The American Psychological Association (APA), and the American Sociological Association (ASA).

B.A., 1974
The Harris Teachers College

Ed.M., 1975
Harvard University

Ph.D., 1983
The University of Chicago

• Leadership 
• Democracy
• Human development
• Education

• Slater, R. (2014). The values of American teachers: How teachers’ values help stabilize unsteady democracy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (Selected by Choice magazine for its 2014 “Outstanding Titles” list).
• Slater, R. (2000), Ensayos Sobre Democracia, Educacion y El Experimento Americano. Lima, Peru: Catholic University Press. 
• Slater, R. (1996) Educating Democracy. Fairfax, VA: National Policy Board in Educational Administration (with Gary Crow). 
• Slater, R. (2019). Justice first, achievement second: Rawls revisited. Teachers College Record, Teachers College Record, Date Published: July 22, 2019
• https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 22983, Date Accessed: 8/22/2019 4:21:51 PM
• Slater, R. and Slater, D. (2019). 1543 and our teachers’ knowledge of science. Teachers College Record, Date Published: February 01, 2019 https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 22659, Date Accessed: 5/13/2019 10:09:47 AM
• Slater, D., and Slater, R. (2018), Why demarginalization is not enough. Teachers College Record, January 8, http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 22233, Date Accessed: 2/22/2018 12:21:35 PM
• Mayeaux, A. and Slater, R. (2017). The Skinny on Response to Intervention: Using RTI  to benefit ALL students and boost ACT scores. Teachers College Record, Date Published: November 22, 2017 http://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 22199, Date Accessed: 4/25/2018 9:23:46 AM
• Mayeaux, A. and Slater, R. (2016), The ACT as a Gateway to Postsecondary Education for Low-Income Students. Teachers College Record, Date Published: April 28, 2016 https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 20298, Date Accessed: 8/22/2019 4:24:29 P
• Slater, R. (2005) Allan Bloom. In John Shook (Ed.) The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers. (Vol 1) Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press. 
• Slater, R. and Boyd, W. (1999). Schools as Polities, In Joseph Murphy and Karen Seashore Louis (Eds.) Handbook of Research in Educational Administration .San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, pp. 323-336. 
• Slater, R. (1995) The Sociology of leadership and educational Administration, Educational Administration Quarterly ;31:449-472. (H index = 57)

• 2018   Fulbright Scholar, Greece
• 2018  The SLEMCO/BORSF II Endowed Professor of Education
• 2010   Fulbright Scholar, Bolivia 
• 2007  The George & Adelaide Trahan Abraham Professor of Education 
• 2005   Texas A&M International Excellence Award 
• 1996   Fulbright Scholar, Peru 
• 1995  Texas A&M University Faculty Abroad Seminar, Mexico 
• 1990  Outstanding Teacher Award, Louisiana State University