Dr. Janine Bempechat is a clinical professor emerita at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is a developmental psychologist with a deep interest in the socialization of achievement. She studies family, cultural, and school influences in the development of student motivation and academic achievement in low-income children and youth, both nationally and cross-nationally. A former National Academic of Education Spencer Fellow, her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, and the William T. Grant Foundation.<\/p>\n
Dr. Bempechat is the author of Against the Odds: How At-Risk Students Exceed Expectations<\/em>\u00a0 and Getting Our Kids Back on Track: Educating Children for the Future. <\/em>She is co-editor, with Margarita Jimenez-Silva, of Latinx Experiences in US Schools: Voices of Students, Teachers, Teacher Educators, and Education Allies in Challenging Sociopolitical Times <\/em>and co-editor, with Helen Haste, of Civic Concepts and Civic Culture: Challenges for American Education<\/em>.<\/p>\nRecent News<\/h3>\n
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