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Ira Lit

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Ira Lit

Associate Professor (Teaching)

iralit@stanford.edu

Assistant: Elizabeth Chesler

Biography

Research and practice focuses on teacher education, elementary education, educational equity, and the design and purpose of education and schooling, as well as the exploration of the educational experience of students often marginalized by the school context.

Other Titles

Associate Professor (Teaching), Graduate School of Education
Affiliate, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Program Affiliations

CTE: Teacher Education
(MA) STEP

Research Interests

Diversity and Identity | Elementary Education | Parents and family issues | Special Education | Teachers and Teaching

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Recent Publications

Lit, I. W. (2014). Bus Kids: Children's Experiences with Voluntary Desegregation. Yale University Press.

Goldenberg, C., Hicks, J., & Lit, I. (2013). Teaching young English learners. Handbook of Research-Based Practice in Early.

Lit, I. W., & Lotan, R. (2013). A balancing act: Dilemmas of implementing a high-stakes performance assessment. The New Educator, 9(1).

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