Research Projects & Staff

Barbara Schneider

Barbara Schneider is currently the John A. Hannah Chair in the College of Education and professor in the Department of Sociology at Michigan State University. She currently directs the Data Research and Development Center, and co-directs the Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work. Interested in the lives of adolescents and their families and schools, Schneider has written widely on these topics.  Her most recent publications include: The Ambitious Generation: America 's Teenagers, Motivated but Directionless, co-authored with David Stevenson, Yale University Press; Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work, co-authored with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Basic Books; and Trust in Schools, A Core Resource for Improvement, co-authored with Anthony Bryk, Russell Sage Foundation. She and Linda Waite have recently completed a book based on findings from the Sloan 500 Family Study exploring the lives of working families entitled Being Together, Working Apart: Dual-Career Families and the Work-Life Balance, Cambridge University Press. Schneider serves on a number of advisory boards including the AERA Grants Board.  Recently, she was selected by the American Sociological Association as the new editor of Sociology of Education.