Richard Arum (born 1963) is an American sociologist of education and stratification, best known for his research on student learning, school discipline, race, and inequality in K-12 and higher education. Arum has a B.A. in Political Science from Tufts University, an M.Ed. in Teaching and Curriculum from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the second dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Education, as well as a senior fellow at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Source: Wikipedia (en)