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University Trustee Chair Professor of Education and Statistics
- Evaluation of effects of educational and social interventions
- Evaluation in developing countries
- Randomized controlled trials
- Ethics in social research
- Systematic reviews of evidence and standards of evidence
Assistant Professor
- Statistical methods to improve generalizations in education
- Partial identification methods with applications to the social sciences
- Multilevel modeling and experimental design
- Propensity score methods for generalization
- Small area estimation
Professor Emeritus of Education
- Civic education and community schooling
- University-community relations
- The American research university
- The American high school
- History of American education
Professor
- Civic education
- Politics of education reform
- Philosophy of education
- Political philosophy
Vice Provost for Faculty
- College access & affordability
- College Promise
- State and federal funding
Professor of Education and Sociology
- Teaching force
- Teacher turnover
- Teacher recruitment & retention
- School management
- Teacher preparation & quality
Professor
- Multivariate statistics
- Multilevel modeling
- Longitudinal analysis
- Item response theory
- Test construction
Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education
- History/Politics of education
- “Culture Wars” in American and global contexts
- Sex, sexuality, and schools
- Campus protests
- College teaching
- Education and historical memory
- History of Medicine
Professor
- District reform
- Instructional improvement
- School reform/state takeovers
- Standardized testing
- Teacher qualifications
Professor of Practice
- The public finance of higher education
- Statewide governance in higher education
- Access and completion in higher education
- Accountability in higher education
- State performance and higher education
Associate Professor
- Politics of education
- Community organizing
- Social movements
- Organization theory
- Philanthropy and civil society
Albert M. Greenfield Emeritus Professor of Human Relations
- Early childhood education, Head Start
- Learning-to-Learn competencies that foster classroom engagement
- Use of Integrated Data Systems for social policy research
- Early childhood risk including child maltreatment, family violence, homelessness