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Name Research Interests
Akos, Patrick
  • School Transitions
  • Middle School
  • Strengths-Based School Counseling
Barrett, C. Elise
  • Instruction of Middle School Language Arts
  • Literacy Education
Berger, Darcy
  • Special Education
  • Self-esteem and its correlation to school success for students with disabilities
Bolick, Cheryl Mason
  • Technology and Teacher Education
  • Technology Across the Curriculum
  • Social Studies Education
Boone, Harriet
  • Personnel Preparation in Early Childhood Intervention
  • Ethics and Public Policy for Young Children and Their Families
  • Family Centered Assessment and Intervention Strategies
Brown, Frank
  • School Law
  • Educational Fiance
  • Minority and Urban Education
Brown, Kathleen
  • Social Justice and Equity
  • Diversity and Cross-Cultural Understanding
  • Principal Preparation Programs
  • Social Foundations
  • Middle Schools
Cizek, Gregory
  • Applied Measurement
  • Standard Setting
  • Testing Policy
  • Large-Scale Achievement Testing
  • Cheating on Tests
Day, Barbara
  • Teachers' Criteria for Success
Eaker-Rich, Deborah
  • Caring in socially and culturally diverse environments
  • Qualitative research methodologies
  • Teacher quality and self-efficacy
English, Fenwick
  • The Epistemology of Professional Practice
  • Sources of Evidence in Research
  • Leadership Theory
Evarrs, Sandra
  • Autism
  • Asperger’s Syndrome
  • Developmental Disabilities
  • Psychoeducational Assessments
  • Special Education
Fitzgerald, Jill
  • Literacy, Especially Emergent Literacy
  • Early School Literacy
  • Bilingual Literacy
Friel, Susan
  • Early Childhood Mathematics Education
  • Middle Grades Mathematics Education
  • Teacher Professional Development
  • Statistics Education, K-8
Galassi, John
  • Strength-Based Approaches to School Counseling
Gallagher, Kathleen Cranley
  • Child-Adult Relationships and Developmental Competence
  • Teacher-Child Relationships and Emergent Literacy
  • Parent-Child Relationships and Social Competence with Peers
  • Infant-Mother Relationships 
Glazier, Jocelyn
  • Diversity and Multiculturalism
  • Professional Development/Teacher Education
  • Social and Cultural Studies
  • Literacy
  • Equity
Greene, Jeffrey
  • Cognition and Learning
  • Self-Regulated Learning
  • Epistemic and Ontologic Cognition
Griffin, Dana
  • Diversity and Multiculturalism
  • Professional Development of School Counselors
  • Supervision
  • Family-School-Community Collaboration
Grumet, Madeleine
  • Curriculum Theory
  • Arts and Education
  • Feminist Theory and Education
Gulledge, Suzanne
  • Middle Grades Education
  • Pedagogy: Practica and Research
  • Reflective Practice
  • Supervision
  • Global Studies
Hall, Leigh A
  • Literacy
  • Comprehension
  • Struggling Readers
  • Adolescent Literacy
Hamm, Jill
  • Adolescents' Peer Relations
  • Adolescents' School Adjustment
Hannum, Wallace
  • Instructional Design
  • Distance Learning and Technology
Heining-Boynton, Audrey
  • Foreign and Second Language Education
  • Teacher Education
  • At-Risk Learners
  • Foreign Language in the Elementary School
Horton, Cheryl
  • Teacher Belief Systems
  • Elementary Education
Huff, Dan
  • Music Education
Knotek, Steve
  • Consultation
  • Early Intervention
  • Literacy
  • Organizational Culture, Climate and Problem-Solving
Kubota, Ryuko
  • Second Language Education
  • Second Language Writing
  • Critical Pedagogy
Levine, David
  • History of American Education
  • Contexts of Education
Lloyd, Mary "Mollie"
  • Literacy Education
  • Literacy Diagnosis and Assessment
  • Struggling Readers
  • Emergent Readers
Malloy, Carol
  • Mathematics Education of African American Students
  • Impact of Reform Practices and Achievement
  • School Based Reform
Marshall, Catherine
  • Politics of Education
  • Social Justice
  • Gender and Education
Meece, Judith
  • Achievement Motivation
  • Student Learning and Motivation
  • Gender Differences in Motivation and Achievement
  • Schooling and Development
Miller, Melissa
  • Prevention and remediation of academic difficulties for students with learning and behavior problems
  • Teacher Preparation in Reading Instruction and Special Education
Negrete, Merida
  • Wind and Percussion Techniques
  • Advanced Wind and Percussion Techniques
Noblit, George
  • Race and Education
  • Qualitative Methods
  • Sociology of Knowledge
  • School Reform
  • Arts and Education
O'Sullivan, Rita
  • Collaborative Evaluation
Palsha, Sharon
  • Early Childhood Curriculum
  • Reggio Emilia Approach to Early Childhood
Parsons, Eileen
  • African American Science Achievement (K-12)
  • African American Culture
  • Culturally Inclusive and Relevant Teaching
  • Racial Equity
Reed, Latish
  • Education of African American Children
  • Social & Cultural Studies
  • Leadership & Organizational Studies Reform
Rogers, Dwight
  • Teachers as Researchers
  • Beginning Teachers and Support
  • Teacher Education
Rong, Xue Lan
  • Education of Immigrant Children
  • International Education Focusing on Education in China
  • Teacher Education
  • Educational Demography
  • Social and Cultural Foundations of Social Studies
Schainker, Stanley
  • Leadership Development
  • Organizational Change
  • Employee Empowerment
  • Team Building
  • Collaborative Decision-Making
  • Group Facilitation
  • Design of Training Programs
  • Development of Training Materials
Simeonsson, Rune
  • Development & Disability
  • Primary Prevention
  • Developmental Assessment & Evaluation
Song, Samuel
  • Bullying
Steinthorsdottir, Olof Bjorg
  • Student's Understanding of Mathematical Concepts
  • Gender and Ethnicity in Relation to Understanding Mathematics
Stone, Lynda
  • Philosophy of Education
  • Social Theory in Education
  • Feminist Theory
  • Humanities Education
  • Cultural Studies
Tillman, Linda
  • Leadership Theory
  • Parental Involvement
  • African Americans in K-12 Education
  • Qualitative Research
Trier, James
  • English Education
  • Cultural Studies
  • Curriculum History and Theory
Unks, Gerald
  • Policy Studies
  • Social Studies
  • Social and Cultural Studies
  • Gay Teenagers
Veitch, James
  • Clinical Supervision
  • International Education
  • High School Reform
  • Principalship
Vernon-Feagans, Lynne
  • Rural Children and Families in Poverty
  • The Transition to School for Struggling Learners
  • Language and Literacy at Home and at School
  • Literacy Interventions for Kindergarten and First Grade
Ware, William
  • Randomization Tests/Bootstrapped Confidence Intervals
  • Instrument Development
Wasik, Barbara
  • Early Childhood Interventions
  • Early Literacy and Language
  • Social and Emotional Development
  • Observational Studies of Children
  • Home Visiting
Wilkerson, Rhonda
  • Elementary Education
  • Curriculum Development