UNC School of Education

Associate Professor of Social Studies Education

T 919.962.9203
F 919.962.1533
xrong@email.unc.edu

307C Peabody Hall
CB 3500

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Beijing, Associate Professor Xue Lan Rong uses her personal and professional backgrounds to create a learning environment in which students gain knowledge, skills and civic values while exploring issues of social consciousness, international affairs and lifelong learning. Her 25-year career includes teaching, research, consultative and administrative experience in the United States and China, including six years as a K-12 literature, history and geography teacher in rural and urban areas of the People’s Republic of China.

During her career, Rong has served in various capacities on the boards of the Annual Edition of Educational Research Methods, Journal of Research and Development in Education, Modern China Studies, European Journal of China Studies and Sociology of Education. As guest or co-editor, she contributed to national and international publications such as Education and Urban Society, Social Education, Modern China Studies and the Educational Encyclopedia for Chinese Child and Adolescent Psychology. She is the author of refereed articles published in journals such as the Harvard Educational Review, American Educational Research Journal, Urban Education, American Sociological Review, American Sociologist and Sociological Quarterly, as well as 14 book chapters. Rong first-authored Educating Immigrant Students published by Sage-Coward in 1998 and is currently working on another book, which is tentatively titled The Education of Immigrant Students and the U.S. Schools, with Judith Preissle of the University of Georgia. She is co-editor of The Education and Socialization of Asian-Pacific Americans to be published in 2006.

A leader within the profession, Rong has served as the program chair of the Special Interest Group, Research on the Education of Asian and Pacific Americans, of the American Educational Research Association since 2005.  She also has chaired the Research Committee for the National Council for Social Studies and served as a board member for the International Activity Committee. She has provided substantial services to the University, local schools and Chinese communities and various state educational and cultural agencies.

• Ed.D. 1988 - University of Georgia at Athens, Social Science Education
• M.A. 1984 - University of Georgia, Global Education
• B.A. 1982 - Beijing Capital Normal University, China, Chinese Literature

• Education of Immigrant Children
• International Education Focusing on Education in China
• Teacher Education
• Educational Demography
• Social and Cultural Foundations of Social Studies
• Research Overview

• Social Studies Methods (Grades 9-12)
• Immigration and Education (Upper-level Graduate Course)

• May 2001, Faculty Research Grant by University Research Council, UNC-CH ($3900)
• January 1997, Grant for Course development -Teaching International Studies in the Middle and High Schools, U.S. Department of Education grant subcontracted through University Center for International Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ($7,000)
• March 1996, Summer Research and Travel Fellowship for Young Scholar, Taiwan National Youth Association, TaiPei, Taiwan
• December 1994, Junior Faculty Development Awards, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($3000)
• December 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, Summer Research Stipend by Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ($1,000 per year)

• present, University Faculty Council
• February 2002, Guest Editor for special issue "New Immigration and Urban Education, Journal." Education and Urban Society
• 2000-present, Advisory Board for Annual Edition: Educational Research Methods, Dushkin/Mcgraw- Hill
• 1997-2000, Member of International Activities Committee, National Council for Social Studies
• 1995-present, Consultant board of Journal of Research and Development in Education (Refereed journal)
• 1995-present, Editorial board of journal Modern China Studies (Refereed journal, Chinese Edition published in Princeton, N.J., USA)
  

Books

Rong, X. L. & Judith Preissle (To be published in 2008). The Education of Immigrant Students and the U.S. Schools. Contracted by SAGE-Corwin.

Park, C, Endo, R., Lee, S. & Rong, X. L. (Eds.) (2007). Asian American Education: Acculturation, Literacy Development, and Socialization. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing Inc.

Rong, X. L. & Preissle, J. (1998). Educating Immigrant Students: What We Need to Know to Meet the Challenge (184 pages). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE-Corwin.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Rong, X. L. & Fitchett, P. (2008). Socialization and Identity Transformation of Black Immigrant Youth in the United States. Theories Into Practice, 47(1), 35-42.

Rong, X. L. & Brown, F. (2007). Educational Attainment of Immigrant and Non-Immigrant Young Blacks. In S. Paik, & H. Walberg, (Ed.s) Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Educating Latino, Black, and Asian Students (91-108). Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Rong, X. L. (2006). Immigration, Urban Schools and Accountability. In F. Brown & R. Hunt (Eds.) No Child Left Behind and other Federal Programs for Urban School Districts (321-340). Boston: Elsevier's Production

Rong, X. L. (2006). Immigration, history and impact in education. In F. English (Ed.) Sage Encyclopedia of Educational Leadership and Administration, (495-501). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.

Rong, X. L. (2006). International Education. In F. English (Ed.) Sage Encyclopedia of (Ed.) Educational Leadership and Administration, (517-521). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing.

Rong, X. L. (2005). Use Sojourner Strategies to Create Transnational Social Capital Among Chinese Immigrant Children and Parents. In C. Park, S. Lee, & L. Goodwin (Eds.) Asian and Pacific American education: learning, socialization, and identity, (165-191) Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing Inc.

Rong, X. L. & Preissle, J. (2005). From Mentorship to Friendship, Collaboration, and Collegiality. In (Eds.) G.F. Lee & G. Beckett. The Strangers of the Academy: Asian Female Scholars in Higher Education,(251-265).Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing, LLC.

Jo, J. Y. & Rong, X. L. (2003). Historical Struggles for Equity: Politics of Education and Language Policies and its Implication for Asian Americans. In R Hunter & F Brown (Eds.) Challenges of Urban Education and Efficacy of School Reform Advances in Educational Administration, (25-47). London: Elsevier.

Rong, X. L. & Brown, F. (2002). Immigration and Urban Education in the New Millennium: the Diversity and the Challenges. Education and Urban Society, 34(2), 112-133.

Rong, X. L. & Brown, F. (2002). Socialization, Culture and Identities: What Educators Need to Know and Do. Education and Urban Society, 34(2), 247-273.

Rong, X. L. (2002). Teaching With Differences and for Differences: Reflections of a Chinese American Teacher Educator. In Lucila Vargas (Ed.) Women Faculty of Color in the White Classroom (125-145). Peter Lang Publishing, New York City.

Rong, X. L. & Brown, F. (2001). The Effects of Immigrant Generation and Ethnicity of Educational Attainment Among Young African and Caribbean Blacks in the United States. Harvard Educational Review, 71(3), 536-565. (Special issue co- edited by C. Suarez-Orozco & M. Suarez-Orozco, Harvard professors in Department of sociology and co-directors of Harvard Immigration Project)

Rong, X. L. & Shi, T. J. (2001). Educational Inequality in China. Contemporary China, 10(26), 107-124. (Contemporary China is a refereed journal published by Carfax, U.K.).