OAKLAND, Calif., March 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Doctoral students Melissa Chabran and Sarah Brody Shulkind have been selected as the first recipients of the Theodore R. Sizer Dissertation Scholars Award.
Presented by the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES) and named for its founder and chair emeritus, the Sizer Dissertation Scholar Awards encourage a new generation of scholars to conduct research on CES schools and further an understanding of the effectiveness of innovative school practices.
Award recipients receive a grant to conduct research or complete their dissertation, as well as a stipend to present their research at the CES annual conference.
The Sizer Dissertation Scholar Awards were established, in part, to assess the effectiveness of the CES Common Principles, a set of pedagogical ideas laid out by Dr. Sizer in his groundbreaking work Horace's Compromise in 1984.
"For over 20 years, CES has had a lasting impact on school transformation efforts, sitting at the nexus between theory and practice," said CES executive board member Jacqueline Ancess, co-director of the National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching at Columbia University's Teachers College.
Melissa Chabran's work focuses on high schools, education assessment and accountability policies, student voice, and equity issues.
This study investigates, through survey research, high school students' perspectives about high-stakes testing and the relationship between their level of engagement in school and their perceptions of the California High School Exit Exam.
Sarah Shulkind is currently in her first year as the Middle School Principal at Milken Community High School in Los Angeles.
For the past five years, she worked at Wildwood, a CES mentor school.
Advisory is an common solution to the lack of school connectedness at the middle level because research on 10- to 14-year-olds shows that when students have a lasting, meaningful relationship with at least one caring adult in the school, academic achievement improves and dropout rates lower.
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