The Education Policy and Politics Division of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) has named @EuphaJeanneD, a postdoc at UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School, as one its 2023 Dissertation Award winners. https://t.co/1CbrNa0q2F @Division_L

So honored to win the AERA Division L Outstanding Dissertation (Qualitative) award.

Check out this Thursday's brown bag session on critical approaches to school district research, hosted by @DistrictSIGAERA. Looking forward to this insightful conversation w/ @CritPolicyProf @EuphaJeanneD @sarahdiem35 on race, leadership &policy implementation across time & place

So excited about this new position. And the opportunity to work with the amazing @CSattinBajaj

Our findings suggest that, without careful attention to racial power and privilege, the implementation of community engagement policies may promote racism in practice, highlighting the need for culturally responsive approaches to engagement.

In 6 school districts, community engagement practices were enacted in racist ways. But in 1 district, the culturally responsive leadership of a Latino superintendent led to racially inclusive community engagement practices. @crsl_institute

We use CRT to examine how 7 school districts implemented a community engagement policy about school finance decisions.

🚨🚨 New Publication Alert🚨🚨 SUPER excited to share this article co-authored with @julieamarsh & @tallbright https://t.co/hLmJWLu0uV #edchat #edpolicy

Moving up the reading list —> Advancing or Inhibiting Equity: The Role of Racism in the Implementation of a Community Engagement Policy By @EuphaJeanneD @julieamarsh @tallbright https://t.co/ZZloSXu4bK #EdPolicy #EdChat #EdEquity

All my friends are brilliant doctors! @jpmdizon just passed his dissertation defense!!! @DeborahS_phd, @nikkimyates and I are so proud! @USCRossierPhD @USCRossier

My Ph.D. bestie from day one, @nikkimyates, just successfully defended her dissertation! So proud! So excited that @jpmdizon and I could witness her greatness. Missing @DeborahS_phd. Cohort 2017 doing big things! @USCRossier @USCRossierPhD

Congratulations to our graduate Eupha Jeanne Daramola! #USCGrad #RossierGrad #2022Trojan 🎉 @EuphaJeanneD

We argue it is important to attend to how targets of policy are constructed in racialized ways, as these can become embedded into policy designs and have important implications for policy outcomes.

These conflicting and racialized constructions reveal tensions within the framing of choice policy as ‘empowering’ parents to act in the best interests of their children.

Overall, we find that 1) school choice policy in the 5 states was shaped by racialized & contradictory views of parents and students 2) perceptions of racially minoritized communities were often steeped in deficit thinking & 3) policy actors often used color-evasive language

We also explore the extent to which these social constructions shape the design of policy levers meant to increase equitable access to school choice, finding interesting differences in FL vs LA.

We found similar patterns for students. But racially minoritized students were more likely to be viewed as dependents (weak/positive) and in need of saving.

White parents were almost always constructed as strong/powerful and in need of choice to exercise their liberty. Racially minoritized parents were constructed as weak (sometimes positive, sometimes negative), needing help or acting as barriers to their children’s success.

Read and cite this article written mostly by women and racially minoritized researchers. #HuriyaJabbar @EuphaJeanneD @julieamarsh @taylores22 @_JacobAlonso_ @tallbright

🚨New Article Alert 🚨 We examined how families were socially constructed in the design of school choice policies in five states. We find key differences in policymakers’ constructions of White and racially minoritized families. A 🧵 https://t.co/cAtyjc1OB8