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Educational Policy and School Reform, History of Education, Philosophy of Education, Civic Education, Educational Law

Affiliate Faculty: School of Public Policy, Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland (AIM)

Selden, Steve

Takes a critical theory analysis of curricular issues with a focus on the issues of race, class, and theories of social justice. Research includes a critical historical analysis of the history of the American Eugenics Movement in the early twentieth centu

Shapiro, Nancy

Higher Education Policy, Teacher Education Policy, P-20 Education Pipeline and Alignment, College and Career Readiness.

Shikarpurya, Sehrish

Race and dis/ability; Postsecondary transition; Intellectual and developmental disabilities; Community-driven family interventions

Shin, Richard

Identification of academic resiliency factors among youth of color living in underresourced neighborhoods; interrogating queer blindfolded and other lenses that heterosexual identifying individuals adopt in support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer concerns; racial bias among practicing mental health professionals; integration of social justice principles in the fields of counseling and counseling psychology.

Slater, Wayne

English and Literacy Education with a focus on reader response, reading comprehension, and written communication.

Snell, Jean

Improvement Science, Leadership Development, Educator Preparation, the Achievement Gap

Splaine, John

Research includes the effects of television on young people, the use of media in teaching, politics and policy development relative to educational technology, and humanistic aspects of educational media.

Stapleton, Laura

Analysis of administrative data and survey data obtained under complex sampling designs, multilevel latent variable models, tests of mediation within a multilevel framework

Steiner, Peter M

[1] CAUSATION: Causal inference (including covariate selection, double robust estimation, double/debiased machine learning), quasi-experimental designs (matching designs, propensity score designs, regression discontinuity designs, interrupted time series designs), causal diagrams, structural causal models, causal mediation analysis, causal decomposition analysis (for disparity research), time-varying treatment regimes.
[2] REPLICATION: Causal replication designs & reproducibility, design replication studies (within-study comparisons) for evaluating quasi-experimental designs.
[3] SURVEY DESIGN: Factorial survey, experimental vignette designs.