Educational Policies to Reduce Inequality: Deploying and Building Research in Wisconsin
December 12, 2018
On December 12, 2018, Eric Grodsky and the Students of Sociology 496/901 presented their work on educational policies to reduce inequalities. This symposium, sponsored by the Wisconsin Center for Education Research, is the product of a semester of collaborative work by students enrolled in a seminar that is intended to mobilize research for the benefit of children and families in our state.
Students selected the topics they thought had the potential to reduce educational inequalities across racial/ethnic groups or levels of family income and reviewed the existing literature on those topics. If you would like to learn more about any of these topics, please feel free to contact authors directly. Their emails are included with their executive summaries below.
Presentations:
Partners in Learning: Family/School Collaboration to Support Young Learners
Partners in Learning: Family/School Collaboration to Support Young Learners Executive Summary
Jake Wertz, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
The School to Prison Pipeline Executive Summary
Sarah Jensen, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
Teacher Recruitment Retention Executive Summary
Ari Brown, Masters candidate, LaFollette School of Public Affairs
Minseok Yang, Ph.D. candidate, Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis
Student Mental Health and High School Achievement and Completion
Student Mental Health and High School Achievement and Completion Executive Summary
Ana Gonzales, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
Toxic Stress Executive Summary
Jon Harper, Masters candidate, LaFollette School of Public Affairs
Homelessness Executive Summary
Erik Gartland, Masters candidate, LaFollette School of Public Affairs
Community Schools Executive Summary
Zack Marks, Undergraduate, Department of Sociology & Concentration in Analytic Research
Brooke Parfrey, Undergraduate, School of Human Ecology
with Samira Payne, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
Student-Teacher Demographic Matching
Student-Teacher Demographic Matching Executive Summary
Jared Colston, Ph.D. candidate, Educational Leadership & Policy Analysis
Middle School Attendance Executive Summary
Michael Asher, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Psychology
Financial Barrier to College Attendance
Chrissy Ramakrishnan, Undergraduate, Department of Economics
