Vásquez Albarrán Betts Binder Cole Edwards Forbes Gordon Humphries Jones J. Levin P. Levin Lytle Yonezawa Zentella CREATE	Hugh "Bud" Mehan Director, CREATE Professor, Sociology bmehan@ucsd.edu Education: Ph.D., Sociology, University of California - Santa Barbara   Research: My appointments in Sociology and CREATE link my commitments to research and practice. I have tried to make my research on the stratifying practices of schools (such as tracking, ability grouping, and educational testing), and more recently school reform, relevant to practicing educators so that they can make informed decisions to ensure that excellent educational opportunities are available to all children.   Online Reference: Preuss School at UCSD UCSD Department of Sociology   Books: Extending Educational Reform: From One School to Many Datnow, Hubbard, Mehan (2002) Constructing School Success: The Consequences of Untracking Low Achieving Students Mehan, Villanueva, Hubbard, Lintz, Okamoto (1996) Articles: Shaping Pathways to Higher Education (PDF) Jones, Yonezawa, Ballesteros, Mehan (2002) Educational Reform Implementation: A Co-Constructed Process Datnow, Hubbard, Mehan (1998) Contextual Factors Surrounding Hispanic Dropouts Mehan (1997)