Writing
Thinking out loud about psychology, education, policy, healthcare, and whatever else has my attention.
The most influential educators in a student's experience are often not their classroom instructors. Academic advisors and mentors shape trajectories in ways that outlast any single course.
High school environments significantly shape whether students believe college is a realistic option for them. Creating supportive college-going cultures is both possible and important.
Students from low-income households lose significantly more academic ground over summer than their more advantaged peers. The gap is real, cumulative, and addressable with the right investments.
Beyond syllabi and standards, schools transmit values, expectations, and social norms. Understanding the hidden curriculum is essential for anyone serious about educational equity.
Standardized tests are among the most debated tools in American education. Understanding the evidence on their uses, limitations, and equity implications matters for responsible reform.
American schools are funded primarily through local property taxes, a design that produces some of the most inequitable educational resource distributions in the developed world.
The pandemic forced remote learning on everyone. What stayed behind was a fundamentally different understanding of what online education can and cannot do.
Culturally responsive teaching has become a prominent framework in education. Research on its theoretical foundations and effectiveness offers a basis for evaluating implementation.
Arts programs in schools are frequently the first target of budget cuts. But decades of research suggest that arts education does far more for students than teaching creative skills.
