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Dr Xiu Cravens
Vanderbilt University
E. xiu.cravens@vanderbilt.edu

Professor Xiu Cravens serves as the associate dean for international affairs at
Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University.
She is also the co-director of Vanderbilt’s U.S.-China Centre for Education and
Culture. She has led Vanderbilt’s institutional efforts in working with universities
and institutions worldwide, particularly in the Asia-Pacific Region, in research,
faculty and student exchange, and professional development for teachers and
school administrators.

Professor Cravens is an associate professor of the practice in education policy at
Peabody’s Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations. She teaches
courses on topics of international K-12 education policy, education in the Asia
Pacific, instructional leadership, teacher development, and research design and
data analysis at the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations. Her
research interests focus on the analysis of educational reform policies that are
particularly related to the organizational and cultural contexts of schools in the
United States and other countries in the world.

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