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Vanderbilt K-12 Experts Presenting New Research About Charter Schools, Drop-Out Rate and More in New York March 24-28 |
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From Ascribe Newsfeed: K-12 experts from Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of education and human development will present their latest research March 24-28 in New York City at the American Educational Research Association's annual conference. Peabody College was ranked as the No. 3 education school in the nation by U.S. News & World Report in 2007. Marisa Cannata, a post-doctoral researcher at the National Center on School Choice at Vanderbilt, will present her research that found most prospective elementary teachers did not want to work in a charter school and were confused about whether charter schools are public schools. Cannata also found African American teacher applicants were more likely to seek out positions in charter schools because they served predominantly minority students. Graduate student Manya Whitaker will present her research with Vanderbilt colleagues Christa Lynn Green and Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey about the impact of parental involvement during middle and high school, an area that has previously received scant attention. Mark Berends, director of the National Center on School Choice; Associate Professor of Public Policy and Education Claire Smrekar; Professor of Education Policy and Leadership Ellen Goldring and several of their Vanderbilt colleagues will present detailed information about charter school reform in an urban district. Professor of Education Policy and Leadership Ellen Goldring, graduate student Jason Huff and the University of Pennsylvania's Henry May will present findings from their three-year, longitudinal study of all school principals in one Southeastern school district and discuss how school leaders spend their time, how they change from year to year, and how leadership practice is influenced by teaching and organization structure. We provide direct, immediate access to mainstream national media for 600 colleges, universities, medical centers, public-policy groups and other leading nonprofit organizations.
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