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Alum Spotlight: Brianna Sailor UEP'21

Brianna Sailor graduated from Brown's Urban Education Policy program in 2021 and is currently an Education Policy & Research Consultant at Augenblick, Palaich and Associates.
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Professor Christopher Cleveland and co-authors examine the predictive power of various student metrics on long-term educational success, finding that while survey-based cognitive and self-regulation measures initially correlate with high school and college outcomes, traditional indicators like test scores, GPA, and attendance-related factors provide stronger and more reliable predictions.
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Professor Kenneth Wong warns that outsourcing federal student loans to private financial institutions, as proposed in President Trump's executive order to close the Department of Education, could harm low-income students by potentially imposing stricter lending criteria and higher interest rates.
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Dr. Emily Qazilbash is the Director of the UEP program and a Professor of Practice in Education. Previously, she served as Chief Human Capital Officer for Boston Public Schools and began her career as a teacher in Baltimore and Boston. Her research focuses on teacher quality, educator evaluation, unions, and school reform. She holds degrees from the University of Virginia and Harvard Graduate School of Education.
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Student Spotlight: Alana Gerber MAT'25

Alana Gerber is a MAT candidate who is passionate about fostering critical literacy skills through student-centered learning. Currently student teaching at Hope High School, Alana values the MAT program’s close-knit community and faculty support.
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Student Spotlight: Alexa Kastner UEP'25

Meet Alexa Kastner, a UEP student and passionate advocate for educational equity. Through her internship at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, she works on high-impact tutoring initiatives while applying her analytical skills to drive meaningful change.
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Katie Rieser is the Director of the MAT program and a Senior Lecturer in Education. Previously, she taught English Education at Harvard and spent a decade as a middle and high school teacher and curriculum dean. Her research focuses on teacher education and anti-racist practices in K-12 schools.
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Student Spotlight: Ellie Jurmann MAT'25

Meet Ellie Jurmann, a passionate future educator dedicated to making math both engaging and empowering for middle school students. Ellie shares her journey through Brown’s Bacc/MAT program, the joys of student teaching, and her hopes for creating a classroom where students feel supported, challenged, and valued.
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In this paper, Professors Yoko Yamamoto and Jin Li, along with their co-authors, examine young children's perspectives on parental support for children's learning (PSCL) within Chinese immigrant families. While extensive research has explored PSCL in these communities—primarily from the parents' perspective—there is little insight into how young children themselves perceive and experience this support.
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In this chapter, Professors Yoko Yamamoto and Jin Li, along with their co-author, examine East Asian immigrant parents' involvement in their children's education, with a particular focus on family-school relationships. Their research highlights the diverse models of family-school engagement that shape immigrant families’ motivations and approaches to supporting their children's learning both at home and in school.
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