George Farkas' research interests include labor markets, schooling and human resources, demography, statistical research methods, evaluation research, and economic sociology.  He is author and co-author of four books and more than 20 scholarly articles.  He is co-editor of a series of books, Sociology and Economics,   Controversy and Integration and has served on The American Sociological Review.  He is editor of the Rose Monograph Series of the American Sociological Association.  He has received research grants from the US Department of Labor, the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development, the National Science Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.  His publications include articles in The American Sociological Review, The Journal of Labor Economics, The Journal of Human Resources, Econometrica, and The Journal of Econometrics.  His current research focuses on the acquistion of cognitive skill by the at-risk students.  He developed a one-on-one reading instructional program that operates in four cities and was one of the bases for President Clinton's America Roads initiative.   Dr. Farkas was a professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Dallas, an assistant professor in the Sociology Department and the Institution for Social Policy Studies at Yale University and a senior analysis at Abt Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts.  He teaches data analysis, evaluation, and education policy.