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Iliana Brodziak de los Reyes, a doctoral candidate in International Comparative Education, worked for Sphere Institute with Peggy O’Brien, and Ruth Chung, a PhD student in the Administration and Policy Analysis program, on a project researching the demand of preschool education in San Mateo and Kern County. She is currently conducting research with Professor Martin Carnoy, Andres Molina (AM ’04), and Miguel Socias (PhD ’04), on the impact of SNED, an incentive program for teachers in Chile, on student achievement. |
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Su Jin Gatlin, a PhD candidate in the Administration and Policy Analysis program, and Assistant Professor Anthony Antonio are studying how Oasis High School, a start-up charter school in Oakland, applies youth development theory to engage students who have previously been pushed out of school. |
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Deb Holtzman, a PhD candidate in the Administration and Policy Analysis program, has been awarded the first American Institutes for Research Fellowship for SUSE students.The fellowship provides a two-year research assistantship with the American Institutes for Research at their Palo Alto office. She is currently working with Jennifer O’Day (PhD ’95) on a project studying instructional reform efforts in San Diego. | |
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In April, Julian Vasquez Heilig, a doctoral candidate in the Administration and Policy Analysis program, received the Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship.The fellowship is a prestigious national award given to minority Ph.D. degree candidates in all fields of study who aspire to a teaching and research career at the college or university level. He is studying longitudinal urban minority student progress and achievement from 1995-2002 in the increasiIngly stringent accountability environment of the Houston Independent School District. |  |
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In June, three doctoral students, Andrew Ho, Thomas Levine, and Viki Young received prestigious Spencer Dissertation Fellowships. Funded by the Spencer Foundation, the Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to encourage a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to the improvement of education. Ho is studying educational measurement, Levine is researching the influence of teacher collaboration on classroom instruction, and Young is examining how teachers use data for instructional purposes and its organizational and policy contexts. |  |
