Educational Policy
Alba Franco
Alba Franco is a doctoral student in education with a focus on language and literacy at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is also a graduate research assistant at the Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being.Her research examines language and identity, in multilingual classrooms. She studies how early childhood education policies and […]
Engie Gobran
Engie Gobran is a doctoral student in educational leadership & policy studies at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research focuses on the influence of school culture on standardized testing outcomes, with the goal of promoting equitable educational practices for all students. Engie began her career as a clinical dietitian and […]
Laura Hawkinson
Dr. Laura Hawkinson is a senior research scientist and deputy director of the Center on the Ecology of Early Development (CEED) at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. Hawkinson has over 20 years of experience conducting applied research and is a nationally recognized expert in early childhood systems. Her work focuses […]
Mei Huang
Mei is a doctoral student at BU Wheelock in the Educational Studies program with a concentration in Education Policy. She is interested in K12 education within the U.S. and is currently conducting research on middle school math policy. Prior to starting her PhD, Mei was a Quantitative Research Analyst at MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research […]
Stephanie Belinda Joseph
Ms. Stephanie B. Joseph is a doctoral candidate in educational leadership and policy studies at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She’s a Roxbury, Mass., native and of Antiguan background. Stephanie is an advanced licensed professional school social worker/school adjustment counselor in Massachusetts, and her career has focused on social work and […]
Simran Kalkat
Simran Kalkat is a research fellow at the Wheelock Educational Policy Center, where she works primarily with Dr. Pia Caronongan on a research partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care to better understand the policies and practices that support Massachusett’s early educator workforce. Prior to joining WEPC, Ms. Kalkat worked as a […]
Jo R. King
Dr. Jo R. King is an assistant professor in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program at BU’s Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Dr. King uses quantitative research methods to study K–12 education policy in the U.S., with an emphasis on how exclusionary school discipline policies may impact equitable outcomes for marginalized groups. […]
Lisa Lineweaver
Lisa Lineweaver is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research interests include dual-language education; biliteracy development; Universal Design for Learning; and organizational capacity and transformation. For the past decade, Lisa has served as school leader of a dual-language elementary […]
Mark Loring
Mark Loring is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. He is the chief operating officer for Brooke Charter School, which is a network of K–12 schools in Boston that serves over 2,200 students across four sites. In his current role, […]
Nampeera Lugira
Nampeera Lugira is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies program at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her research examines the leadership practices and organizational conditions that support sustained improvement in urban high schools. Nampeera is particularly interested in Ubuntu, the African philosophy expressed as “I am because we […]