Linda Valli

Linda Valli is an American educator and academic. She was a professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has authored several books, research papers and reports related to teaching and education.

Early life and education Linda Valli received a Bachelor of Arts in English, with a secondary teaching certificate, from Mercy College of Detroit in 1970. She subsequently earned a Master of Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University in 1976, and a graduate study in education at the University of Chicago. She earned her PhD in educational policy studies from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1983.

Career Valli began her career as a secondary-school teacher in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1970. She later taught literature at the Hawthorne Center for Emotionally Disturbed Children in Livonia. She taught humanities, and social studies at a high school in Farmington Hills from 1971 to 1977. In 1978, she briefly worked as a research assistant in University of Chicago and as an administrative assistant at the National Training Laboratories. Valli is part of the LGBTQ community, and has been involved in framing policies for the recruitment of LGBTQ educators, and research on the experiences of LGBTQ teaching community.