Publications

Scholarly Accomplishments April 2025

BU Wheelock presents the following faculty publications, presentations, and awards for March 2025.

Awards

Anthony Abraham Jack

For Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price
Prose Book Award for Education Theory and Practice
2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award, Finalist for Education by Foreword Reviews

Books

Mary Churchill

Churchill, M. L. (Ed.). (2025). The conversation on higher ed. Johns Hopkins University Press. https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/53934/conversation-higher-ed

Articles

Johana Chaparro-Moreno and Stephanie Curenton

Chaparro-Moreno, L. J., Uanhoro, J. O., Curenton, S. M., & Justice, L. M. (2025). A 5-year longitudinal study of bilinguals’ vocabulary growth and the role of the prekindergarten home language and literacy environments. Journal of Educational Psychology, 117(3), 361–379. https://doi.org/10.1037/edu0000907

Kyle DeMeo Cook

Cook, K.D., Ferreira van Leer, K., Gandhi, J. & Kuh, L.P. (2025). What’s missing? A multi-method approach to gaining a fuller understanding of early care and education decision-making. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2024.11.002

Fisk, E., Lombardi, C., Cook, K.D., & Cohen, R.C. (2025). Early Head Start prenatal services and toddlers’ socioemotional skills: The role of program approach. Early Childhood Education Journal, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-025-01892-0

Aquino, K., Cook, K.D., & Bittinger, J. (2025). A national look at shifts in disability self-identification for students enrolled in higher education. AERA Open, 11. https://doi.org/10.1177/23328584251322511

Stephanie Curenton and Jacqueline Sims

Ibekwe-Okafor, N., Sims, J., Liu, S., Curenton-Jolly, S., Iruka, I., Escayg, K.-A., Bruno, B., & Fisher, P. (2025). Examining the relationship between discrimination, access to material resources, and black children’s behavioral functioning during COVID-19. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 62. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2022.09.005 

Curenton, S. M., Iruka, I. U., Sims, J., & Ibekwe-Okafor, N. (2024). Introduction to the supplemental issue: Advancing developmental science on the impact of racism in the early years. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2024.06.001  

Edson Filho

Sliz, K., & Filho, E. (2025). One mile at a time: the relationship between mindfulness, self-talk, and psychobiosocial affective states in collegiate cross-country athletes. Journal for the Study of Sports and Athletes in Education, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/19357397.2025.2472322

Yasko Kanno

Li, K., & Kanno, Y. (2024). Examining English learners’ opportunity to learn from high school to community college: A qualitative case study. TESOL Quarterly. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.3368

Sen Wang

Wang, S., Cabell, S. Q, Hadley, E. B., Pentimonti, J., & Leushuis, A. (2025). The frequency of informational text read-alouds in kindergarten and its association with students’ vocabulary and knowledge development. Early Childhood Education Journal (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-025-01885-z

Day Residency

Davena Jackson

Jackson, D. (2025). Inaugural Critical Qualitative Researcher-In-Residence. Invited by the Educational Studies Program and the Joint Program in English and Education, University of Michigan.

Presentations

Mary Churchill

Churchill, M. (2025, March). College presidents under attack: BIPOC women leaders in a post-democracy United States. Paper presented at the Eastern Sociological Society meetings, Boston, MA. https://www.essnet.org/_files/ugd/c53742_301a24b76ff9405e9b3d7967cfc33864.pdf

Churchill, M. (2025, March). Author Meets Critic Book Talk. Presented at the Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meetings, Boston, MA. https://www.essnet.org/_files/ugd/c53742_301a24b76ff9405e9b3d7967cfc33864.pdf

Kyle DeMeo Cook

Cook, K. D. (2025, January 29). Policies to support early education access & decision-making. Research on Tap: How Social Policies Shape Our Lives from Birth to Old Age. Boston University: Office of Research. Invited Presenter. https://www.bu.edu/research/2024/12/09/how-social-policies-shape-our-lives/

Eve Manz

Manz, E., Stoler, A., and Diaz-Silveira, G. (March 13, 2025). Productive uncertainty in science classrooms: Why? how? [Presentation]. MA DESE STE District Leaders Network Meeting, Massachusetts, United States. investigationsproject.org

TJ McKenna

McKenna, T. J. (2025, March). Making sense of sensemaking: Designing authentic K-12 STEM learning experiences. Paper presented at the National Science Teacher Association, Philadelphia, PA.

McKenna, T. J. (2025, March). Grappling with critical problems of practice within our diverse informal elementary science teacher education community. Symposium presented at the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST) International Convention, Washington, DC.

TJ McKenna and Felicity Crawford

Osborne, M., McKenna, T. J., Crawford, F. A., Shah, B., & Labadorf, A. (2025, March). FELIX: Detecting bias in scientific communications. Paper presented at the National Science Teacher Association, Philadelphia, PA.

Podcasts

Stephanie Curenton

Otto R. (Host). (2024, November 14). Dr. Stephanie Curenton Discusses Preschool for All Evaluation with a Racial Equity Framework [Audio podcast episode]. In The Early Link Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/episode/5x7k0Dv9EzLuim3g9LdbsZ?si=9423c84862e44a14