Current NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellows
Current recipients of the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship follow. To learn more about each project, click on the recipient’s name. Visit this page for more information about the NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Changing Administrators: Toward a Behavioral Science of the Exosystem
University of Rochester
Advancing Linguistic Heterogeneity Through a Participatory Improvement Network
Clemson University
Preschool Settings that Support Dual Language Learners: Investigating Classroom Experiences, Quality, and Supports for Teachers
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Cultivating political, ethical, and relational horizons in garden-based learning
University of California, Los Angeles
Platform Promises, District Realities: Examining How Organizational Capacity Shapes the Adoption of K-12 Educational Technology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Moral Scientist: The Life and Thought of Lawrence Kohlberg, 1927–1987
University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Modern-Day Mobility Journeys: How First-Generation College Students Navigate Social Class at Selective Universities and Find Professional Footholds in an Increasingly Unequal World
University of Pennsylvania
Bridging the Research-Practice Gap in Statistics and Data Science Education: Co-design "Embodied" Programming Notebooks with Instructors Across Institutions
University of Wisconsin-Madison
What Lasts Beyond the Diploma? A Longitudinal Study of Social Networks and Post-College Outcomes
Tulane University
Assessment Language and Early Math: Advancing Equity in Evaluating Dual Language Learners
University of Maryland
Civic Organizations and Education Systems Change in Developing Countries
University of California, Berkeley
Interrogating the Color-Blind Justifications for State Takeover of School Districts
University of Pittsburgh
Supporting Critical Media Literacy and Civic Learning with Ideologically Diverse Youth and Teachers Through Media Fandoms
Baylor University
(For Whom) Does Community College Reduce the Costs of a Bachelor's Degree?
University of California, Irvine
Understanding the Process of Inter-epistemic Knowledge Creation: A Participatory Study in Agroecological Learning in Guatemala's Maya-Achí Territory
University of California, Santa Cruz
Towards a quantitative critical social network analysis (QuantCritSNA) approach on college student success and well-being. Relational trends from 2007-2023
University at Buffalo
Sociopolitical Contexts of Teaching Reproductive Rights and Histories: Exploring the Double Bind of Teaching Abortion Post-Dobbs v. Jackson
University of Georgia
Un Mejor Futuro: A Phenomenological Study of Being Latiné and Learning Mathematics during Times of Crisis
San José State University
Relational Ecologies: Examining Community-Based Science Learning in a Community School
University of California, Irvine
Dream B.I.G.: Reimagining STEM Equity Through Creative Counterspaces for Black Girls
Duke University
Examining Young African American Children's Conceptualizations of Literacy Learning
University of Virginia
Beyond the Final Score: Leveraging Process Data for Time-Varying Separable Effects and Accurate Ability Estimation in Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
Liberty's Lessons: The Educational Politics of the American Revolution
Virginia Military Institute