Welcoming Statements

Last Year’s Conference and How We’re Building On What We Learned

Race, Politics and Sex: Understanding the Attitudes and Behaviors of African American Youth

How Racial Stereotypes Color Self-Perceptions of Ability and Why it Matters.

Fitting in matters: markers of in-group belonging and academic outcomes academic outcomes

Hip-Hop and self-esteem

Messages in the Music: How Rap Lyrics both Encourage and Discourage School Engagement.

How English teachers lead students to code-switch linguistically.

How enriched images of possible selves enhance school engagement: evidence from an experiment

Helping High School Dropouts Make Sense of their Lives and Transition into Productive Adulthood.

Framing: Structures and Identity

Accountability and School Improvement

High Poverty Schools and the Distribution of Teachers and Principals

Teacher Assignment in Low-income Schools

Teacher Policy and the Achievement Gap

Institutional and Everyday forms of Discrimination and Achievement Outcomes

School Structures, Expectations, and Peer Dynamics in a Multiracial High School

The Multiple Dimensions of Boundaries in U.S. Schools: Observations from the Northeast & South

How do we get get educators to consider and engage in the topic of race and opportunity?

How Instruction and Peer Culture Affect Student Engagement in Several Domains: Evidence from the Tripod Project

Potholes on the road to college Managing college application among CPS students

The Black-White Test Score Differential

Workforce Development Policies’ Effects on Children and Adolescents in Poverty

Preschool Parent-Child Language Functions and Early School Literacy

Aligning resources to enable families to accomplish the tasks that support children in learning in school

Parent Processes that Support School Readiness