Etta Kralovec '70

After Etta Kralovec earned her bachelor's degree in English at Lewis & Clark College, she began building an outstanding career in education. For more than 12 years, she was a teacher and administrator at Laguna Beach High School, where she designed and headed California's longest-running public alternative school.

Etta went on to receive her Ph.D. in philosophy and education from Columbia University's Teachers College and became a professor of education and the director of teacher education at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Currently, Etta is the associate professor of education at Pepperdine University. She was previously the vice president for learning with the Training and Development Corporation in Maine, where she designed alternative learning environments for at-risk and homeless students. Her work with teachers has taken her around the country and the world. She was the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 1996–1997 and of a National Job Corps Outstanding Achievement Award in 2002.

Etta is the coauthor of The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning. Her book, Schools That Do Too Much: Wasting Time and Money in Schools and What We Can All Do About It, was published in 2003. Her work has been featured in a wide array of media, including the New York Times, the Today Show, and Talk of the Nation.

In 2001, Etta Kralovec received Lewis & Clark's Distinguished Alumnus Award, which honors an alumnus/a for rendering superior performance in his or her chosen field and superior service to his or her chosen community.

(Posted December 2004)