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CONCENTRATION: Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS)
INTERESTS: YPAR/CPAR/Youth Activism, Poverty/Class Race, Community-Engaged Research, Community-Embedded Educators, Critical Pedagogy/Research, Culturally Relevant/Sustaining Pedagogy
Through community-engaged research, Georgina Rivers is interested in examining the pedagogical practices teachers and youth workers from low-income communities employ to cultivate young peoples’ political engagement.
CONCENTRATION: Education Policy and Program Evaluation (EPPE)
INTERESTS: Economics of Education, Program Evaluation, Learning Outcomes, Tutoring, RCTs
Rony Rodriguez-Ramirez specializes in conducting program evaluations of education policies in conflict-affected regions to assess their impact on learning outcomes and students' well-being.
INTERESTS: Economics of Education, Education Policy, Causal Inference, Quantitative Methods, Inequality, Segregation, Program Evaluation
INTERESTS: College Affordability, Higher Education, State Policy, Equity, Student Success, Social Mobility
CONCENTRATION: Human Development, Learning and Teaching (HDLT)
INTERESTS: Ethnic-Racial Identity, Ethnic-Racial Socialization, Whiteness, Adolescent Development
Megan Satterthwaite-Freiman is interested in studying how White adolescents develop their ethnic-racial identity within the sociohistorical context of the United States and how parents and educators can support White youth in building antiracist identities.
INTERESTS: Literacy, Language Experience, Early Childhood, Computational Modeling
Lauren Schilling's research explores the creation of high-quality early language environments through computational modeling. She is interested in how child-directed speech and texts lay the foundation for reading development.
INTERESTS: Early Childhood Development, Psychometrics, Causal Inference, International Settings, Impact Evaluation, Measurement
INTERESTS: Policy, K-12, School Choice, Vouchers, Education Savings Accounts, Accountability, Funding
David Struhs studies U.S. education policy, school choice, accountability, and funding.
INTERESTS: Biculturalism, Cultural Integration, Cognitive Development, Social Cognitive Development, Cross-Cultural Context on Development
Guicheng “Ariel” Tan is interested in studying the cognitive and developmental implications of cross-cultural experiences. More recently, Tan has been looking at how biculturalism can 1) promote executive functions and 2) lead to developmental variations.
INTERESTS: Black Studies, Educational Policy, History