Completing college is associated with tremendous benefits in American society (Carnevale et al., 2015). Yet, while college access has expanded dramatically over the past half-century, graduation rates remain frustratingly ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by deficits in social communication and repetitive and stereotyped behaviors. In addition to having the core features of the disorder, approximately 70% of children with ASD ...

Over the past decade, states and districts across the country have reformed their teacher evaluation systems to systematically collect ratings of teacher performance using standards-based observation protocols. Furthermore, ...

Unequivocally, students with more positive teacher-student relationships attain countless more desirable outcomes than students with less positive relationships. But cultivating positive relationships is not easy. We all ...

Marginalization and connection experiences at school profoundly shape youth academic and psychosocial adjustment. While schools can function as sites of academic and social preparation and connection, they often replicate ...

Scholars have examined why successful reform often remains elusive in the public sector. These perspectives have focused on how the structure of many public sector systems complicates top-down implementation, as actors ...

The past three decades of research in cultural psychology have generated a catalog of differences between Western and East Asian adults especially with respect to their cognitive style, and notably in terms of attending ...

How do children learn? How do massive social transformations – such as urbanization, marketization and industrialization – shape how learning is organized and what is considered worthy of learning? This dissertation explores ...