2002 NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows
Thea Renda Abu El-Haj, University of Pennsylvania
Citizenship in the Face of Conflict: Educating Palestinian (American) youth
Amy J. Binder, University of Southern California
Studying Education Reform as Contentious Politics
Geoffrey Dwight Borman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Early Learning and the Social Composition of Schools
Catherine Compton-Lilly, Rochester CSD/St. John Fisher College
Reading Family Discourses: Literacy in urban families
Eileen M. Coppola, Rice University
Education Policy in the Cultural Realm: Do standards, testing and accountability change the way we think about education?
Michele Denise Crockett, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Teacher Inquiry as Professional Development: Improving algebra teaching and learning in urban middle schools
Thomas Sean Dee, Swarthmore College
The Civic Returns to Education
Laura Desimone, Vanderbilt University
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, Northwestern University
Family Background, Cultural Capital, and Teachers’ Perceptions of Students and Parents: Examining the development of organizational habits in urban elementary schools
Fabienne Doucet, Harvard University
Communicating Values about Education across Generations of Haitian Immigrants
Jack Dougherty, Trinity College
Cities, Suburbs, and Schools: An historical case study of metropolitan Hartford, Connecticut
Roger Goddard, University of Michigan
The Meaning, Effects, and Development of Collective Efficacy in Diverse Urban Schools
Neil Thomas Heffernan, Carnegie Mellon University
A Comparison of Student Learning Under Multiple Conditions: Classroom instruction, one-on-one human tutoring, and different types of computer tutoring
Clare A. Ignatowski, University of Pennsylvania
A New Politics of Belonging: Ethnic Solidarity Clubs in Cameroonian Universities
Ariel Kalil, University of Chicago
Consequences of Parental Job Loss for Adolescents’ School Performance & Educational Attainment
David L. Leal, SUNY, Buffalo
Politics and Latino Education at the Turn of the Century
Meira Leah Levinson, Boston Public Schools
Civic and Multicultural Education in Minority Settings
Jun Liu, University of Arizona
Is “the earlier the better”? – Investigating the effects of earlier English education in China
Bridget Terry Long, Harvard University
The Role of Price in College Decisions: Implications for aid policy
Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Stanford University
Learning On and Off the Court: African-American high school basketball players constructing identities as “doers” and “learners.”
Adam R. Nelson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Nationalism, Internationalism, and the Origins of the American Research University, 1785-1915
Yoon Pak, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
In Search of Theory as Practice: Teaching for intercultural understanding, 1930s-1950s
Kathryn Eloise Perry, University of California, Berkeley
Young Children’s Perceptions of Teacher Practices: Implications for the development of reading competence
Sean Fitzpatrick Reardon, Pennsylvania State University
Choosing Schools, Choosing Neighborhoods: Understanding the “New Segregation”
Rob Reich, Stanford University
Educational Authority Over Children: Conflicts between parents and the state
Naoko Saito, University of Tokyo
A Study of Perfectionist Education through Emerson, Dewey and Cavell: Reconstructing the ethics of education
Kyoung-Hye Seo, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Teachers’ Understanding of Young Children’s Mathematical Thinking
Anna Yurevna Smolentseva, Moscow State University
Higher Education and Employment in Russia: Recent Ph.D.s on the national and international labor markets
Min Wang, University of Pittsburgh