The Albert Shanker Institute Research Grant Program
The Shanker Institute awards small seed grants to emerging scholars doing promising work in our focus areas of education, labor and international democracy. The purpose of the grants is to assist recipients in developing their research into articles for publication in peer-reviewed academic journals.
The paper titles below, as well as positions/affiliations of the grantees, reflect information at the time of the grant.
Please note: We do not accept applications for these grants.
Current and past recipients are listed below:
2016
Luis A. Rodriguez
Affiliation: Vanderbilt University's Peabody College (Ph.D. candidate)
Paper: Teacher Tenure Reform in Tennessee
Status: In progress
David Sherer and Johanna Barmore
Affiliation: Harvard University Graduate School of Education
Paper: Investigating the Effects of Teacher Collaboration on Student Learning: Exploring Teaching Quality as a Moderator
Status: Under review
2015
Walker Swain
Affiliation: Vanderbilt University's Peabody College (Ph.D. candidate)
Paper: Children's Health Insurance and Academic Achievement: Assessing the Causal Impact on Early Learning Measures
Status: Under review by the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Presented at the 2013 APPAM annual conference and the 2014 AEFP annual conference.
David Blazar
Affiliation: Harvard University Graduate School of Education (doctoral student)
Paper: Teacher and Teaching Effects on Students’ Attitudes and Behaviors
Status: Forthcoming in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
Rachel Baker
Affiliation: Stanford University (Ph.D. candidate)
Paper: Getting from A(A) to B(B): The effect of structured transfer pathways in community colleges
Status: Forthcoming in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. PDF available here.
John Lane
Affiliation: Michigan State University (Ph.D. candidate)
Paper: Political science: How micro-politics influence teacher evaluation systems
Status: In progress
2014
Matthew Shirrell
Affiliation: Northwestern University (post-doctoral fellow)
Paper: The Effects of Subgroup-Specific Accountability on Teacher Turnover and Attrition: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from North Carolina
Status: Forthcoming in Education Finance and Policy.
Joelle Rodway Macri
Affiliation: University of Toronto (Ph.D. candidate)
Paper: Connecting the Dots: Mapping the Terrain within a Research Brokering Network
Status: Published in Education Policy Analysis Archive, Volume 23, Number 123 (December 2015).
2013
Lauren Schudde
Affiliation: Teachers College, Columbia University (post-doctoral research associate)
Paper: Unveiling Sources of Persistent Inequality in American Higher Education: A New Look at the “Experiential Core” of College Life
Status: Submitted to Social Forces (revise and resubmit); winner, Educational Problems Graduate Student Paper Award 2013 (Society for the Study of Social Problems); Maureen T. Hallinan Graduate Student Paper Award 2013, honorable mention (American Educational Research Association, Sociology of Education Special Interest Group).
Peter Kinsley
Affiliation: University of Wisconsin – Madison (Ph.D. candidate)
Paper: How Family Dynamics Affect the College Experiences of Low-Income Students
Status: Presented at AERA conference, April 2015
Travis Bristol
Affiliation: Columbia University, Ph.D., recipient of the first-ever Teacher Diversity Award from the The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.
Paper: An Exploration Into How the In-School Experiences of Black Male Teachers Differ Across One Urban School District
Status: Under review
Jimmy Kristom
Affiliation: Stockholm University (graduate student)
Paper: Breaking Boundaries: Occupy Wall Street and Union Alliances in New York
Status: In progress
2012
Eleanor Fulbeck
Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania (post-doctoral fellow)
Paper: Review of the Evidence on the Impact of Incentives on Teacher Retention
Status: In progress