Areas of Interest

• Interactions between student mobility and student achievement.
• The theories, policies, and practices of educational accountability.
• Parental preferences and the determinants of participation in school choice.

Keyword Interest

• K-12 Educational Policy and Research
• Educational Accountability
• NCLB School Choice Policy
• Socioeconomic Integration
• Parental Preferences

Current Research Topic/Field-Based Project

Project:
Work with a national longitudinal dataset of public schools of choice to test the No Child Left Behind theory that students who move from schools identified as low-performing will increase in student performance. The longitudinal dataset allows for quasi-experimental comparison between students who transfer to a high-performing school with the counterfactual of students who stay in the low-performing school.

Project:
Examine the determinants of participation in a public school choice program when the students’ assigned school has lower or higher test scores than the public school of choice. Predictors of participation include student characteristics, peer characteristics in the students’ schools when applying for a public school of choice, and characteristics of the school the student is zoned to attend.

Former Experience

• Co-author of the forthcoming book for school leaders, Schools and Education Accountability: Concepts and Skills to Meet 21st Century Education Leadership Challenges,
• Designed and conducted a program evaluation of a professional development program in a low-performing school district in Ohio.
• Conducted a program evaluation of a national whole school reform model for the Laboratory for Student Success at Temple University.
• Serve on the student editorial board of the Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis journal.

Education

• B.A. (2001): Political Science, University of Chicago