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Research on the evolving role of principal supervisors was the topic in two of three recent reports released by the Wallace Foundation and co-authored by Peabody College faculty.
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We are very pleased to welcome two new faculty members to Leadership, Policy and Organizations this fall. Felipe Barrera-Osorio comes from the Harvard Graduate School of Education as associate professor of public policy, education and economics, while Kelly Slay arrives as an assistant professor of higher education and public policy, having recently completed a postdoc at the University of Maryland. We are also thrilled to announce that Chezare Warren will join Vanderbilt in 2021 as an associate professor of equity and inclusion in education policy.
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Marisa Cannata is now associate professor of the practice of leadership, policy and organizations and the director of the on-campus Ed.D. program.
Brent Evans was promoted to associate professor of higher education and public policy, with tenure.
Jason Grissom was promoted to professor of public policy and education and has been named to a Patricia and Rodes Hart Endowed Chair.
Carolyn J. Heinrich, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy and Education, and Jennifer Darling-Aduana, PhD’20, received AERA’s Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award for their article “A Look Inside Online Educational Settings in High School: Promise and Pitfalls for Improving Educational Opportunities and Outcomes.
Eve Rifkin, lecturer, is the new director of the Leading and Learning Organizations Ed.D. program. We congratulate the first cohort of newly minted LLO graduates!
Matthew Shaw, assistant professor of public policy and education and assistant professor of law, is the Frances Lewis Scholar in Residence at Washington and Lee Law School this academic year.
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Shaun Dougherty, assistant professor of public policy and education, was awarded a $700,000 IES extension grant to continue his research on Career and Technical Education in Connecticut.
Jason Grissom, faculty director for the Tennessee Education Research Alliance, received a three-year, $400,000 award from the Spencer Foundation for a research-practice partnership with the Tennessee Department of Education.
Carolyn J. Heinrich’s research collaboration with the Tennessee Higher Education Commission, the Tennessee Postsecondary Evaluation and Analysis Research Lab, was renewed with a $400,000 grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation.
Adela Soliz, assistant professor of higher education and public policy, has been awarded a $2.8 million IES grant with collaborators at the Community College Research Center, as well as WT Grant mentoring grant to support her work with graduate student, Hidahis Mesa.
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RECENT PH.D. PLACEMENTS AND CANDIDATE NEWS
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We are proud of our recent Ph.D. graduates, who all landed academic tenure-track or research positions.
A number of current doctoral candidates are seeking positions in academe or elsewhere, and we would be pleased to assist you in connecting with them. Among them, Christopher Bennett is a recipient of the 2020 National Academy of Education (NAEd)/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship.
In addition, Richard Hall was selected for a 2020-21 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to North Macedonia, where he will be conducting his dissertation research.
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The Christian Science Monitor: More parents are homeschooling. How that will change public education. Joseph Murphy is quoted. Murphy has also been interviewed on the subject of homeschooling in recent months by Good Morning America and The Washington Post.
Harvard Education Publishing Group: Engaging students in digital learning. Carolyn Heinrich, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy and Education, and Jennifer Darling-Aduana, PhD’20, co-authored this essay with Annalee Good based on their new book, Equity and Quality in Digital Learning: Realizing the Promise in K–12 Education. The William T. Grant Foundation published another essay by the team: Fostering Equitable and Effective Use of Digital Tools in K-12 Classrooms, and The Tennessean quoted Heinrich in an article on the challenges educators face in implementing remote learning.
CBS News: Trump's threat to cut school funding does little to sway state, local officials. Sean P. Corcoran, associate professor of public policy and education, is quoted. Corcoran also discussed the subject in Yahoo! Life.
The Hill: A better way to curb police brutality. Carolyn Heinrich, Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy and Education, wrote this op-ed.
The New York Times: A School Admissions Process That Caused Segregation Fell Apart in Weeks. Sean Corcoran is quoted.
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