Claude Goldenberg, a native of Argentina, is Professor of Education at Stanford University.  Prior to his Stanford appointment, Goldenberg was at California State University, Long Beach, where he was in the Department of Teacher Education, Associate Dean of the College of Education, and (since 2005) Executive Director of the Center for Language Minority Education and Research (CLMER).  He will remain part time as CLMER director during the 2007-08 school year until his replacement is found.

Goldenberg received his A.B. in history from Princeton University and Ph.D. in 1984 from Graduate School of Education, UCLA. He has taught junior high school in San Antonio, TX, and first grade in a bilingual elementary school in the Los Angeles area. 

Goldenberg was a National Academy of Education Spencer Fellow in 1986-88. He won the 1993 Albert J. Harris Award from the International Reading Association for an article (co-authored with Ronald Gallimore), describing how beginning Spanish reading achievement improved at an elementary school where he taught first grade and conducted research on home and school influences on early literacy development. In 2004 he received the Distinguished Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activities Award from California State University, Long Beach.

In 1997, he produced Settings for Change, a video describing a 5-year school improvement project that succeeded in raising literacy achievement in a largely Latino, bilingual elementary school in the Los Angeles area.  A book based on this project, Successful School Change: Creating Settings to Improve Teaching a Learning, was published in 2004 by Teachers College Press.

Goldenberg's other publications have appeared in numerous academic and professional journals, and he has been on the editorial boards of Language Arts; The Elementary School Journal; Reading Research Quarterly; American Educational Research Journal; and Literacy, Teaching and Learning. His current projects focus on improving language and literacy achievement among English learners in elementary and middle school (funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, US Dept of Education) and language and literacy development among Mexican children in Mexico (funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Development, US Dept of Health and Human Services).

Goldenberg was on the National Research Council's Committee for the Prevention of Early Reading Difficulties in Young Children and on the National Literacy Panel, which synthesized research on literacy development among language-minority children and youth.