Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations

In the News

Joanne Golann  was quoted on the Chalkbeat article “ New poverty research could bring more clarity to charter school comparisons ” about how charter schools are attracting low –income families.

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Ellen Goldring was quote in the Education Week article “ ‘Thank You for All That You Do': How Educators Are Honoring Assistant Principals Week ” on how assistant principals have key leadership positions in the school.

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Carolyn Heinrich ’s quoted Chalkbeat article “ Credit recovery becomes key strategy for Detroit district’s graduation rate boost ” the effects of credit recovery program have on student learning.

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Carolyn Heinrich’s quoted in the Finacial Times article “Suella Braverman, Rwanda and when medieval-style ‘ordeals’ become government policy” about how the arbitrary distinctions the South Africa’s Child Support Grant families received less support than they were entitled to and had a negative impact on the adolescents of those families.

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Christopher Loss was quoted in the Washington Post article “ Political polarization is sorting colleges into red and blue schools ” about how colleges and universities address political debates due the broad spectrum of views.

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Lauren Covelli and Hannah Kistler were recipients of the AERA Grants Dissertation Grantees .  

Laura for her dissertation “ACT Testing Policy in Tennessee: Effects on Test-Taking, Scores, and College Enrollment”  

Hannah for her dissertation “Principal Attributes and Teachers’ Returns to Experience”   

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Matthew Shaw was quote in the Chalkbeat article “ Tennessee is talking about rejecting federal education funding. What would that mean for kids? ”  about how states do not have to accept federal money because of the objectives the federal government is to give the states the states the money they think it would take to run program.  

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Felipe Barrera-Osorio moderated the panel “Expanding Opportunities for Alternative Education” at the Clinton Global Initiative University, hosted by Vanderbilt University March 3-5. The session focused on the increasing importance of alternative education options in emergency and post-conflict situations around the globe, including how to support the safety of schools and schoolchildren, how social entrepreneurs and nonprofits could support access to education and innovation in basic education, and examples of community-based education for people in areas affected most by crisis. Panelists were Pashtana Durrani, executive director of LEARN, Danielle De La Fuente, founder and CEO of Amal Alliance, and David Barth, vice president of International Programs at Save the Children.    

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Rich Milner will speak on “Cultivating Relationships and a Sense of Belonging in Education and Community” as the Rosel Schewel Lecturer at the University of Lynchburg on March 22.     

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Richard Welsh ’s Educations Week article " Why, Really, Are So Many Black Kids Suspended? " was cited in the Truthout article “ Black Student Sues School After Teacher Assaulted Her for Not Reciting Pledge ”.

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Kelly Slay was on the “ Understanding Race Conscious Admission in our Past, our Present and our Future” panel with the former solicitor general and current dean of admissions at Amherst College. 

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Cynthia Osborne 's Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Roadmap data was referenced in the Early Education section Tennessee expand programs to support young children and their caregivers of the 2022 State of Tennessee's Kid Count State of the Child report.

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Cynthia Osborne was quoted in the Desert News article “ Gen Z, millennial women have different ideas of the ‘perfect’ mom but want to be one ” on about the how the developmental skills of young children are simple and very basic for any parent to help their child thrive in life. 

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Richard Welsh was quoted in the Chalkbeat article “ COVID exodus: Where did 1 million public school students go? New data sheds some light ” about the reasons why public-school enrollment is down and homeschooling is still on the rise. 

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Carolyn Heinrich will be giving  The George Eastman Lecture: “Bad bets, bad apples, or bad policy? Should ordeals be a policy tool of the twenty-first century?” on Monday, February 20 th at 6:00pm at Oxford University.

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Kelly Slay was on the “ Understanding Race Conscious Admission in our Past, our Present and our Future” panel with the former solicitor general and current dean of admissions at Amherst College. 

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Cynthia Osborne Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Roadmap data was referenced in the Early Education section Tennessee expand programs to support young children and their caregivers of the 2022 State of Tennessee's Kid Count State of the Child report.

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Ellen Goldring , Patricia and Rodes Hart Chair and professor of educational leadership and policy, gave a keynote address at the International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement , held between January 10 and 13 in Viña del Mar, Chile. Her presentation, “Performance Feedback: A Missing Link in School Improvement,” addressed the need for school principals to receive feedback from teachers and supervisors to become more effective leaders and improve schools. Feedback alone is not enough to improve principals’ leadership, Goldring advised; it should be coupled with a system of professional learning support, such as coaching, for principals to make sense of the feedback they receive. The support system should include clear and consistent communication, discussions of feedback and action plans, and mechanisms to recognize and reward feedback use. 

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Xiu Cravens and Marisa Cannata , professor and associate professor of the practice of leadership, policy, and organizations, respectively, also attended the ICSEI. Cravens presented “Sustaining Collaborative Inquiry Cycles for Instructional Improvement in U.S. Public Schools,” and Cannata presented “The Role of Improvement Research in Supporting Systems Learning in Challenging Contexts.”  

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Liliane Nienstedt was named to the APPAM Policy Council ‘s Student Activities Committee.   

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Rich Milner book Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There was cited in the EdSurge article “To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different’.

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Cythina Osborne was quoted in the Desert News article “ What family experts hope Congress will consider in ‘23 " about the hope that state and federal lawmakers prioritize making paid family and medical leave available to all families.

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Carolyn Heinrich co-authored The Conversation’s article “ College students who work more hours are less likely to graduate ”.

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Mark Chin was quoted in the Chalkbeat article “ Bill would curb ‘implicit bias’ training in Tennessee schools, universities ” about how based on this research paper “ Bias in the Air: A Nationwide Exploration of Teachers’ Implicit Racial Attitudes, Aggregate Bias, and Student Outcomes ” suggests that there is a need to address bias in the classroom.   

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Chris Candelaria ’s working paper “ Teacher Shortages: A Unifying Framework for Understanding and Predicting Vacancies ” was featured in the Education Weeks’s article “ All Teaching Shortages Are Not Equal: 4 Takeaways From New Research " .  

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Clarie Smrekar was featured in the Nashville Business Journal’s article, “ Stakeholders weigh in on Tennessee Education Savings Account program ” about the pros and cons along with Tennessee's rollout of the school voucher program.   

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Shaun Dougherty was quote in the Scary Mommy’s article, “ I Realize I Need to Back Off the College Talk with my Kids ” about how parents need to alter their perspectives on their childern being college educated verse working towards a skilled trade.   

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Cynthia Osborne was featured in the Vox article “ 5 experts share how to make day care less germy ” about well-being of child care providers makes the children they care for stay healthier.   

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