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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
Professor
- District reform
- Instructional improvement
- School reform/state takeovers
- Standardized testing
- Teacher qualifications
Professor
- Measurement and item response theory
- Test construction
- Factor analysis and scale development
- Multilevel and longitudinal modeling
- Classification accuracy
- Latent profile and growth mixture modeling
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
Vice Provost for Faculty
- College access & affordability
- College Promise
- State and federal funding
Professor of Education and Sociology
- Teacher supply, demand, shortages, and turnover
- Teacher preparation & quality
- Beginning teacher induction & mentoring
- School organization, leadership, & accountability
- Teacher workforce trends
- Teaching as a profession
- Racial-ethnic diversity in the teaching force
Associate Professor
- Economic evaluation
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
- Designing field trials
- Comprehensive support for students
- Leveraging external educational resources
MRMJJ Presidential Professor
- Civic education
- Politics of education reform
- Philosophy of education
- Political philosophy
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
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