Jonathan Rabinovitz

Stanford's Prudence Carter named dean of U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Education

PRUDENCE CARTER, professor education at Stanford, will be the dean of U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Education, effective June 30. A member of the Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) faculty since 2007, Carter’s teaching and research focus on issues of inequality and the sociology of education, with a particular focus on race, ethnicity, class,… Read more Stanford's Prudence Carter named dean of U.C. Berkeley's Graduate School of Education

Stanford education researchers to help measure civic, political discourse among youth

The Spencer Foundation has tapped researchers at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) to be part of a $2 million initiative that will create for the first time ways to measure the nature and quality of civic and political discussions among youth, whether face-to-face, in writing or online. The project includes five research teams at… Read more Stanford education researchers to help measure civic, political discourse among youth

Stanford researchers develop secondary school curriculum to address race and police violence

TRAVIS BRISTOL, a research and policy fellow at the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education, and CLAUDE GOLDENBERG, professor of education at Stanford, have created a curriculum that supports teaching about the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man, and the protests and civil unrest that followed in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014.… Read more Stanford researchers develop secondary school curriculum to address race and police violence

GSE researchers receive grant for study of K12 online learning

Researchers at the Graduate School of Education will share in a $1.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to launch a three-year study of virtual schooling in Florida. The study will explore how virtual schooling options affect students’ course progression, academic achievement and teacher effectiveness. Virtual schools have expanded… Read more GSE researchers receive grant for study of K12 online learning

Stanford's Leah Gordon wins a Ryskamp award

The American Council of Learned Societies has awarded LEAH GORDON, an assistant professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Education, a 2015 Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship to support her research on the concept of “equal educational opportunity” in the United States in the 20th century. A cultural and intellectual historian, Gordon draws on histories of… Read more Stanford's Leah Gordon wins a Ryskamp award

Stanford Graduate School of Education pledges $5 million to partnership with San Francisco schools

Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education has committed to raise $5 million for a pair of new initiatives with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) that will enable teachers and administrators to use research more effectively to meet students’ needs. The new efforts are another step forward in a five-year-long partnership between the university… Read more Stanford Graduate School of Education pledges $5 million to partnership with San Francisco schools

Stanford Graduate School of Education scholar to be honored for research on teaching history

The National Council for the Social Studies recently named JOEL BREAKSTONE a recipient of its 2014 Larry Metcalf Exemplary Dissertation Award for his doctoral research at Stanford Graduate School of Education on the use of formative assessments in the teaching of history. Breakstone, who earned his doctorate from the school in 2013, is now director… Read more Stanford Graduate School of Education scholar to be honored for research on teaching history