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PROGRAM FACULTY EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY ADRIAN HUERTA JULIE MARSH Assistant Professor of Education; Pullias Center Professor of Education and Co-Director of the STEPHEN AGUILAR for Higher Education Center on Education Policy, Equity and Assistant Professor of Education Boys and young men of color; college access and Governance Role of educational technologies in promoting equity; gang-associated youth; socioecological Implementation and effects of accountability equity; studying the design, efficacy and factors that promote educational equity and instructional improvement policies; school motivational implications of learning analytics, districts as central actors in educational reform; examines the role self-regulated learning plays on ADRIANNA KEZAR use of data to guide decision-making; politics of college going outcomes Dean's Professor in Higher Education and Director educational reform of the Pullias Center for Higher Education MARY HELEN IMMORDINO-YANG Change process in higher education institutions; PEDRO A. NOGUERA Professor of Education, Psychology and role of leadership in creating change Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean Neuroscience Sociology, race, equity, urban education; Expert Neural, psychophysiological and psychological TATIANA MELGUIZO on the ways in which schools are influenced by bases of social emotion; self-awareness and Professor of Education; Pullias Center for Higher Education social and economic conditions, as well as by culture and their implications for learning; Association of student trajectories and specific demographic trends in local, regional and global development and schools institutional characteristics on the persistence contexts HARRY O’NEIL and educational outcomes of minority and low- LAWRENCE O. PICUS Professor of Educational Psychology and Technology income students Richard T. Cooper and Mary Catherine Cooper Computer-based assessment of workforce Chair in Public School Administration; Center on readiness; teaching and measurement of self- JULIE POSSELT Education Policy, Equity and Governance Associate Professor of Education; Pullias Center Adequacy and equity in school finance; efficiency regulation skills for Higher Education and pro-ductivity in the provision of educational Social and organizational analyses of equity, ERIKA A. PATALL programs for PreK-12 school children Associate Professor of Education access and wellbeing in higher education; Determinants, development and function of graduate education and the professoriate; MORGAN POLIKOFF motivation; classroom support for motivation research methods Associate Professor of Education and Co- Director of the Center on Education Policy, and learning; use and development of research JOHN BROOKS SLAUGHTER synthesis and meta-analytic methods Equity and Governance Professor of Education and Engineering; Pullias Design, implementation and effects of standards, GALE SINATRA Center for Higher Education assessment and accountability policies Stephen H. Crocker Professor of Education Higher education leadership; diversity and Understanding the cognitive and motivational inclusion in higher education; historically DAVID QUINN Assistant Professor of Education; Center on processes that lead to successful learning in marginalized groups in STEM; access and affordability Education Policy, Equity and Governance science Inequities in educational outcomes and BRENDESHA TYNES K–12 EDUCATION POLICY opportunities by race/ethnicity and Professor of Education and Psychology and socioeconomic status; causal mechanisms for Director of the Center for Empowered Learning PATRICIA BURCH ending inequity and Development with Technology Professor of Education, PhD Program Chair and Role of the internet in child and adolescent Co-Director of the Center on Education Policy, TEACHER EDUCATION development with special attention to academic Equity and Governance performance, including STEM; mental health and Patterns and drivers of school commercialism; YASEMIN COPUR-GENCTURK behavior; digital and media literacy interventions implications for the form and delivery of public Assistant Professor of Teacher Education education, with specific attention to equity and Mathematics education with a focus on teacher quality knowledge, teaching practices and teacher HIGHER EDUCATION development, and how these areas relate to KAREN SYMMS GALLAGHER student learning DARNELL COLE Veronica and David Hagen Endowed Chair in Associate Professor of Education; Co-Director of Women’s Leadership the Center for Education, Identity and Social Expert on educational policy and online education Justice; Pullias Center for Higher Education Race/ethnicity; diversity; college student ADAM KHO experiences; learning Assistant Professor of Education; Center on Education Policy, Equity and Governance SHAUN R. HARPER School reform including school turnaround, Clifford H. and Betty C. Allen Chair in Urban Leadership and Executive Director of the USC school improvement, school choice and other LEARN MORE education policies with special attention to equity Race & Equity Center USC Rossier PhD Program Office Race and equity in education and social [email protected] contexts; student success in higher education 213.740.4069 and urban high schools; boys and men of color; usc.edu/phd-urban-ed-policy intercollegiate athletics