Wheelock Educational Policy Center
Scholarly Accomplishments May 2025
BU Wheelock presents the following faculty publications, presentations, and awards for March 2025. Awards Jennifer Bryson MACURE Celebrate Literacy Award, from the Massachusetts Association of College and University Reading Educators Tina Durand Metcalf Cup and Prize for Excellence in Teaching, from Boston University Anthony Jack Massachusetts Book Award longlist for Class dismissed: When colleges ignore […]
Shaping the Future of Early Childhood Research Policy
What is possible if early childhood policy researchers across Massachusetts work together to create a coordinated and aligned research collaborative? This is a question that participants discussed during the first day-long Massachusetts Early Childhood Policy Research Summit, held on April 2, 2025, at Wellesley College. Co-hosted by Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human […]
BU Wheelock Scholarly Accomplishments March 2025
BU Wheelock presents the following faculty publications, presentations, and awards for March 2025. Books and Book Chapters Anna Lim Lim, A. (2024). Immigrant deaf students of color: On the axes of accommodation, acculturation, and racialization. In C. M. Leider, C. L. Dobbs, & E. Nerlino (Eds.), Preparing antiracist teachers: Fostering antiracism and equity in teacher […]
How Strong School Leaders Drive Student Success
High-quality school and district leadership are a critical part of student success. But developing and sustaining effective leaders can present challenges as leaders navigate growing demands and competing priorities. So how can research and practice intersect to support the development of effective leaders? For this Conversations with the Dean session, Dean Penny Bishop is joined […]
How Can Teacher Preparation Stay Relevant?
Traditional teacher preparation programs housed in institutions of higher education are finding themselves having to adapt to the new reality that fewer people are studying to become teachers. As a result, these programs are building new partnerships, changing their curriculum, and adopting new recruitment methods to keep themselves relevant. For this Conversations with the Dean […]
Shaking Up The System
When voters in Multnomah County, Oregon, approved a measure in 2020 directing the government to provide a free preschool education to every three-and four-year-old in Greater Portland, officials had their work cut out for them. If the county’s Preschool for All program failed to deliver, local children—many from low-income backgrounds whose families rely on its […]
BU Wheelock Scholars Earn Postdoctoral Fellowships
Two members of the BU Wheelock community were recently honored with postdoctoral fellowships from National Academy of Education. Davena Jackson, an assistant professor of urban education with a focus on English education, language and literacy, was named an NAEd/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow and will use her award to advance her work promoting educational equity. Postdoctoral fellow […]
Three BU Wheelock Faculty Promoted to Full Professor
Three BU Wheelock faculty members were recently promoted to full professor. Stephanie Curenton, Jennifer Greif Green, and Marcus Winters represent the Educational Leadership & Policy Studies, Applied Human Development, and Special Education programs at BU Wheelock. “We recognize Drs. Curenton, Green, and Winters for their outstanding contributions to the college, university, and their fields,” says […]
BU Wheelock’s Chard and Goodman among Top Educational Policy Influencers
BU Wheelock Dean David Chard and Joshua Goodman, an associate professor of education and economics, were recently included among the top 200 university-based scholars in the United States whose work has influenced educational policy and practice. Rick Hess Straight Up (RHSU), an Education Week blog, releases the Edu-Scholar Public Influence rankings every January. Hess, the […]
Using Policy Research to Achieve Educational Equity
Before getting his PhD, William Delgado worked as an economic consultant to the Inter-American Bank, the Colombian Health Department, and other organizations. Today, he’s a research assistant professor at BU Wheelock and an affiliated faculty member with the Wheelock Educational Policy Center who uses data-driven strategies and tools from economics and policy analysis to find […]