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Associate Professor
- Politics of education
- Community organizing
- Social movements
- Organization theory
- Philanthropy and civil society
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
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
Vice Provost for Faculty
- College access & affordability
- College Promise
- State and federal funding
MRMJJ Presidential Professor
- Civic education
- Politics of education reform
- Philosophy of education
- Political philosophy
Dean, Graduate School of Education
- K–12 education governance
- Teachers’ unions
- Collective bargaining agreements
- Portfolio management models
- Teacher labor markets
- School turnaround policies
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
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
- Absenteeism and truancy
- Career and technical education
- Early childhood education
- Disabilities
- Causal inference
Assistant Professor
- K-12 education policy
- School segregation
- Truancy
- Special education
- K-12 school finance
Assistant Professor
- Economics of education
- Urban education policy
- Policy evaluation
- Career and technical education
- Ethnic studies
- High school to college transitions
- Quasi-experimental methods
Professor
- District reform
- Instructional improvement
- School reform/state takeovers
- Standardized testing
- Teacher qualifications