Alan GARTNER, Catedrático de Psicología de la Educación de la City University of New York (CUNY). Es autor de Paraprofessionals and Their Performance: A Survey of Education, Health, and Social Service Programs (1971 ), Public Education (1976); The Preparation of Human Service Professionals (1985); A Peer-Centered School (1992). Es coautor de: Children Teach Children; Learning By Teaching (1971 ); Public Service Employment: An Analysis of Its History, Problems and Prospects ( 1973) ; After Deschooling, What? ( 1973) ; The Service Society And The Consumer Vanguard (1974); Full employment program for the 1970s (1976); How to Individualize Learning (1977), Images of the Disabled-Disabling Images (1987); What Reagan Is Doing to Us (1982); Beyond Separate Education. Quality Education for AII (1989); Self-Help in the Human Services (1996); Race and Redistricting in the 1990s ( 1998).