Spencer_2002 Fellows

Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, Visiting Research Associate, University of Pennsylvania, Women's Studies
Citizenship in the Face of Conflict: Educating Palestinian (American) youth

Amy J. Binder, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, Sociology
Studying Education Reform as Contentious Politics

Geoffrey Dwight Borman, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Educational Administration
Early Learning and the Social Composition of Schools

Catherine Compton-Lilly, Teacher/Visiting Associate Professor, Rochester CSD/St. John Fisher College
Reading Family Discourses: Literacy in urban families

Eileen M. Coppola, Lecturer, Research Scientist, Rice University, Education
Education Policy in the Cultural Realm: Do standards, testing and accountability change the way we think about education?

Michele Denise Crockett, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Curriculum & Instruction
Teacher Inquiry as Professional Development: Improving algebra teaching and learning in urban middle schools

Thomas Sean Dee, Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College, Economics
The Civic Returns to Education

Laura Desimone, Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University, Leadership, Policy and Organizations
Toward a More Refined Theory of School and Classroom Effects: A study of the effects of professional community on instruction and student achievement

John B. Diamond, Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern University, Education & Social Policy
Family Background, Cultural Capital, and Teachers' Perceptions of Students and Parents: Examining the development of organizational habits in urban elementary schools

Fabienne Doucet, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Human Development & Psychology
Communicating Values about Education across Generations of Haitian Immigrants

Jack Dougherty, Assistant Professor, Trinity College, Educational Studies Program
Cities, Suburbs, and Schools: An historical case study of metropolitan Hartford, Connecticut

Roger Goddard, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, Educational Studies
The Meaning, Effects, and Development of Collective Efficacy in Diverse Urban Schools

Neil Thomas Heffernan, Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, Human-Computer Interaction
A Comparison of Student Learning Under Multiple Conditions: Classroom instruction, one-on-one human tutoring, and different types of computer tutoring

Clare A. Ignatowski, Adjunct Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology
A New Politics of Belonging: Ethnic Solidarity Clubs in Cameroonian Universities

Ariel Kalil, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, Public Policy Studies
Consequences of Parental Job Loss for Adolescents' School Performance & Educational Attainment

David L. Leal, Assistant Professor, SUNY, Buffalo, Political Science
Politics and Latino Education at the Turn of the Century

Meira Leah Levinson, Teacher and Humanities Department Chair, Boston Public Schools
Civic and Multicultural Education in Minority Settings

Jun Liu, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, English
Is "the earlier the better"? - Investigating the effects of earlier English education in China

Bridget Terry Long, Assistant Professor, Harvard University, Administration, Planning and Social Policy
The Role of Price in College Decisions: Implications for aid policy

Na'ilah Suad Nasir, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Psychological Studies in Education
Learning On and Off the Court: African-American high school basketball players constructing identities as "doers" and "learners."

Adam R. Nelson, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Educational Policy Studies
Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American Research University, 1785-1915

Yoon Pak, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Educational Policy Studies
In Search of Theory as Practice: Teaching for intercultural understanding, 1930s-1950s

Kathryn Eloise Perry, Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, Cognition & Development
Young Children's Perceptions of Teacher Practices: Implications for the development of reading competence

Sean Fitzpatrick Reardon, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University, Education Policy Studies
Choosing Schools, Choosing Neighborhoods: Understanding the "New Segregation"

Rob Reich, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, Political Science
Educational Authority Over Children: Conflicts between parents and the state

Naoko Saito, Research Associate, University of Tokyo, Teaching, Curriculum & Learning Environment
A Study of Perfectionist Education through Emerson, Dewey and Cavell: Reconstructing the ethics of education

Kyoung-Hye Seo, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Curriculum & Instruction
Teachers' Understanding of Young Children's Mathematical Thinking

Anna Yurevna Smolentseva, Research Fellow, Moscow State University, Center for Sociological Studies
Higher Education and Employment in Russia: Recent Ph.D.s on the national and international labor markets

Min Wang, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh, Psychology
Chinese-English Biliteracy Development: Cross language and writing system transfer