06 National Academy of Education/Spencer Fellows

The National Academy of Education has announced its Spencer Fellows for 2006 and they are all working on critical education issues:

Eileen Anderson-Fye, Case Western Reserve UniversityCultural Change, Mental Health & Academic Achievement

Douglas Clark, Arizona State UniversityInternational Analysis of Students' Knowledge Structure Coherence

Joseph Crespino, Emory UniversityAmerican Kulturkampf: Evangelical Christian Schools and Modern Conservatism

Jimmy de la Torre, Rutgers, The State University of New JerseyDesigning Assessment to Support Learning: A New Approach to Test Construction and Analysis

Sara Goldrick-Rab, University of Wisconsin-MadisonInvestigating the Postsecondary Transitions of Urban Public School Students

Nora Gordon, University of California at San DiegoCompetition for Contracts with Public Schools and Districts: How Much is There, and Does It Matter for Students?

Matthew Hartley, University of PennsylvaniaAdvancing the Civic Purposes of Higher Education: An Examination of an Educational Reform Movement

Wendy Hoglund, New York UniversityBuilding Family-School Connections: Modeling Pathways to Children's Educational Outcomes

Guanglei Hong, University of TorontoTreatment Effect Estimation in Cluster Randomized Experiments in the Presence of Partial Implementation

Robert Kunzman, Indiana UniversityReligion, Home Schooling, and Civic Education: Implications for American Democracy

WanShun Eva Lam, Northwestern UniversityThe Role of Transnational Digital Communication in Adolescent Immigrants' Language, Literacy and Identity Development

Katherine Magnuson, University of Wisconsin – MadisonGoing Back to School: Do Children Benefit When Mothers Obtain Additional Education?

Patrick McEwan, Wellesley CollegeThe Educational Impact of Large-Scale School Feeding Programs

Margaret Nash, University of California, RiversideHigher Education for Women and the Formation of Gender, Class and Race Identity in the US, 1840-1875

Alina Reznitskaya, Montclair State UniversityStudent Thought and Classroom Language: Investigating the Connection

Aaron Saiger, Fordham University School of LawReimagining Educational Localism: Periodic Redistricting of Public Schools

Aaron Saiger, Fordham University School of LawReimagining Educational Localism: Periodic Redistricting of Public Schools

Kim Warren, University of KansasEducation for Citizenship: African-Americans and Native Americans

Tonya Wolford, University of PennsylvaniaThe Effect of Spanish Fluency and Syntactic Processing on Reading In English

Xiaogang Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and TechnologyThe Household Registration System and Educational Attainment in China: A Causal Analysis

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