Senior Discussant: Noreen Webb, University of California, Los Angeles

Luis Rodriguez, Vanderbilt University
An Examination of Teacher Tenure Reform in Tennessee: Performance, Retention, and Policy Framing
Postdoctoral Discussant: Nicole Panorkou, Montclair State University

Samantha Viano, Vanderbilt University
Online Learning as a Remedy for Course Failure: An Assessment of Credit Recovery as an Intervention to Earn Credits and Graduate from High School
Postdoctoral Discussant:  Amy Stornaiulo, University of Pennsylvania

Xiaoyang Ye, University of Michigan
Improving College Choice for the Poorest Students: Examining What Works in Centralized Admissions Systems Using Randomized Experiments
Postdoctoral Discussant: Ozan Jacquette, University of California, Los Angeles

Senior Discussant: Yongmei Ni, University of Utah

Sandilya Maithrey Gopalan, Indiana University
Examining Disparities in Non-Cognitive Educational Outcomes in the United States
Postdoctoral Discussant: Lindsay Page, University of Pittsburgh

David Houston, Teachers College, Columbia University
Public Opinion and the Public Schools
Postdoctoral Discussant: Deondra Rose, Duke University

Xu Qin, University of Chicago
Causal Mediation Analysis in Multi-Site Trials
Postdoctoral Discussant: Avi Feller, University of California, Berkeley

Senior Discussant: Valerie Lee, University of Michigan

Gabriel Chouhy, University of Pittsburgh
The Moral Economy of Education Reform: Market Regulation, School Valuation, and Accountability in Chile
Postdoctoral Discussant: Crystal Sanders, Pennsylvania State University

Christina Ciocca Eller, Columbia University
Institutional Impacts on Bachelor’s Degree Completion for the New Majority
Postdoctoral Discussant: Emily Rauscher, University of Kansas

Samantha Nix, Florida State University
Exclusivity through Challenge: Perceptions of Difficulty in Mathematics-Intensive STEM Fields at the Intersection of Race/Ethnicity and Gender
Postdoctoral Discussant: Darris Means, University of Georgia

Senior Discussant: Richard Lehrer, Vanderbilt University

Kimberly Conner, University of Missouri
An Innovation Introduction to Proofs: Conjecturing and Constructing Deductive Arguments
Postdoctoral Discussant: Niral Shah, Michigan State University

Kathryn Lanouette, University of California, Berkeley
Conceptualizing “What’s Underfoot?”: Elementary Students’ Use of Participatory GIS Mapping to Integrate Local Knowledge and Data Representations
Postdoctoral Discussant: Erika Bullock, University of Wisconsin-Madison

T. Philip Nichols, University of Pennsylvania
Making Innovation: Literacy and Techno-science in Urban Public School Reform
Postdoctoral Discussant: Luis Poza, University of Colorado Denver

Senior Discussant: Maris Vinovskis, University of Michigan

William Goldsmith, Duke University
Kids, the New Cash Crop: The Promise and Limits of Educating for Economic Development in the New South, 1960 – 2000
Postdoctoral Discussant: Chris Bischof, University of Richmond

Leigh Soares, Northwestern University
Higher Ambitions for Freedom: The Politics of Public Black Colleges in the South, 1865-1915
Postdoctoral Discussant: Tikia K. Hamilton, Princeton University

Senior Discussant: Penelope Peterson, Northwestern University

Kathryn Boonstra, University of Wisconsin-Madison
First Time Out: A Qualitative Study of Classroom Discipline in Early Childhood Education
Postdoctoral Discussant: Claudia Cervantes-Soon, University of Texas at Austin

Sarah Suárez, University of Minnesota
The Development of Epistemological Understanding: Testing for Effects of Conversational Framing on Children’s Epistemological Judgments and Testimonial Learning
Postdoctoral Discussant: Nicole Louie, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Lindsay Wright, University of Chicago
Discourses of Talent in American Music History, Pedagogy, and Popular Culture
Postdoctoral Discussant: Claudia Cervantes-Soon, University of Texas at Austin

Senior Discussant: Shirley Brice Heath, Stanford University

Ian Lowrie, Rice University
Learning Machines: Industrial-Academic Collaboration in Russian Data Science
Postdoctoral Discussant: Kathryn Moeller, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Upenyu Majee, University of Wisconsin-Madison
(Re)imagining and (Re)enacting Competing Policy Imperatives: The Case of Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education
Postdoctoral Discussant: Amanda Tachine, Arizona State University

David Paulson, Temple University
Writing in the Margins: Indigenous Literacy, Childhood Socialization, and Rapid Modernization in a Vietnamese Village
Postdoctoral Discussant: Kathryn Moeller, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Rachel Silver, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mother, Daughter, Schoolgirl: Student Pregnancy and Readmission Policy in Malawi’s Era of Education for All
Postdoctoral Discussant: Amanda Tachine, Arizona State University

Senior Discussant: Judith Warren Little, University of California, Berkeley

Elizabeth Adelman, Harvard University
Teaching the Found Generation: Exploring the Experiences of Teachers Working to Educate Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon
Postdoctoral Discussant: Erica Turner, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Elisheva Cohen, University of Minnesota
Where Do I Belong? Examining the Inclusion and Exclusion of Syrian Refugess in Integrated Schools in Jordan
Postdoctoral Discussant: Mezna Qato, University of Cambridge

Sarah Kabay, New York University
Universal Primary Education in Uganda: Rethinking Access vs. Quality
Postdoctoral Discussant: Anna Chmielewski, OISE/University of Toronto

Anna Kaiper, University of Minnesota
(Re)Constructing Identities: South African Domestic Workers, English Language Learning, and Power
Postdoctoral Discussant: Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania

Senior Discussant: Lois Weis, University of Buffalo, State University of New York

Kevin Clay, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Demystifying Conscientization: (Re)discovering Political Orientations in Youth Action Researchers
Postdoctoral Discussant: Natasha Pilkauskas, University of Michigan

Mollie McQuillan, Northwestern University
Beyond Bathrooms: Educational Policy, School Climate, and Health for Gender Variant Students
Postdoctoral Discussant: Natasha Pilkauskas, University of Michigan

Caroline Pinkston, University of Texas at Austin
The Power of Children: Childhood, Memory, and the Remaking of New Orleans Public Education
Postdoctoral Discussant: Khalil Johnson, Weslyan University

Gabriel Rodriguez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Understanding Latina/o Identity and Community in a White and Well-resourced Chicagoland Suburban High School
Postdoctoral Discussant: Luis Poza, University of Colorado Denver

Senior Discussant: Joshua Kinsler, University of Georgia

Alonso Bucarey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Financial Aid for Higher Education: Scholarship versus Loans
Postdoctoral Discussant: Andrew Barr, Texas A&M University

Daniel Herbst, Princeton University
Improving Student Loan Contracts: The Effects of Income-Driven Repayment on Default and Consumption
Postdoctoral Discussant: Andrew Barr, Texas A&M University

Jacqueline Sims, Boston College
Prospective Relations between Adolescent Achievement and Physiological Health: The School’s Role in Buffering the Hidden Burdens of Academic Success
Postdoctoral Discussant: Lindsay Weixler, Tulane University

Senior Discussant: Richard Murnane, Harvard University

Julien LaFortune, University of California, Berkeley
The Effect of Capital Expenditures on Student Outcomes: Evidence from School Constructions in Los Angeles Unified
Postdoctoral Discussant: Houman Harouni, Harvard University

Jing Liu, Stanford University
Peers, Teachers, and the Mechanism of Education Production – Using High Resolution Data to Understand Education Processes
Postdoctoral Discussant: Allison Atteberry, University of Colorado Boulder

Jack Mountjoy, University of Chicago
College Counterfactuals: Understanding the Choice and Consequences of Attending Community College
Postdoctoral Discussant: Allison Atteberry, University of Colorado Boulder

Senior Discussant: Ruth Lopez Turley, Rice University

Alexandra Freidus, New York University
Race, Class, and Belonging: Desegregating Schools in Gentrifying New York
Postdoctoral Discussant: Jason Ellis, University of British Columbia

Abena Subira Mackall, Harvard University
Arrested in Adolescence: Youth Perceptions of Relationships, School Experiences, and Justice System Involvement
Postdoctoral Discussant: Jayanti Owens, Brown University

Jasmin Sandelson, Harvard University
Unaccompanied Homeless Students
Postdoctoral Discussant: Kendra Bischoff, Cornell University