School of Education & Social Policy
 
MA - Education and Social Policy

Degrees Included: M.A. in Education and Social Policy

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Anson, Amy
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1989
Brownell, Ann
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1991
Chroniak, Karen
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1991
Dorner, Lisa
BA, English with Spanish minor (summa cum laude), Truman State University, Kirksville, MO, 1994
MA, English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL, 1996
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 2003
Dissertation: Constructing a Dual Language Policy in a New Immigrant Community: Conflicts, Contexts, and Kids 2006
Lisa Dorner received her Ph.D. in Human Development and Social Policy from Northwestern University in 2006.  Her research interests include the implementation of educational policy, immigrant childhoods, and bilingual education policy and practice.  As part of the DLS team, she has analyzed the work environments of urban Catholic, charter, and public schools.  She has also worked on the evaluation of a professional development program for principals, using mixed methods to question the greater social factors that influence whether and how a principal may gain from in-services and develop expertise over time.
Julia Eksner
Eksner, Julia
Magistra Artium, Free University of Berlin, Department of Anthropology, 2001
Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago, Department of Anthropology, 1998
MA, Education and Social Policy (Learning Sciences) , Northwestern University, 2004
Dissertation: Self-Regulation in Context. An Ecocultural Perspective on Self-Regulation during Problem-Solving 2007
Gregory, Maryann
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1991
Hallberg, Mary
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1987
Johnson, Michael
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1991
Krasney, Noma
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1988
Lewis, Syeda
MA, Education and Social Policy (Higher Education Administration & Policy) , Northwestern University, 2008
Masters, Deborah
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1976
Meaden, Patricia
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1991
Nolinske, Terrie
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1981
Natalia Palacios
Palacios, Natalia
BA, Psychology, Brown University, 2001
MA, Education and Social Policy (Human Development and Social Policy) , Northwestern University, 2007

Natalia A. Palacios is a sixth year Ph.D. student in Human Development and Social Policy in the School of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University. She is a fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program for Education Sciences, funded by the Institute for Education Sciences and was awarded the American Psychological Association Minority Predoctoral Fellowship. She is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Institute for Policy Research. Natalia works with her advisor, Dr. P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, on the Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study.

With a long-standing commitment to developmental, early education, and policy research, her overarching goal as a scholar is to advance the understanding of effective programs that improve children’s chances for academic success. With strong multidisciplinary training, her research focuses on issues specific to minority and immigrant children, the complex factors affecting the transition to school, teacher quality, and children’s cognitive development. Natalia lines's of research inform each other to attain a more nuanced understanding of achievement in understudied but fast growing groups. By focusing on these research questions and using multiple rigorous methodologies, she aims to contribute to the fund of knowledge necessary to address the significant challenges to educational policy and practice in the United States. 
Rietj, Karen
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1991
Saul, Ronald
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1988
Shlaes, Janet
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1991
Stiers, William
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1980
Watson, Wayne
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1970
Kathryn Weitz White
Weitz White, Kathryn
Masters of Education, DePaul University, 1999
Bachelors of Arts, Carleton College, 1996
MA, Education and Social Policy (Human Development and Social Policy) , Northwestern University, 2005
Katie Weitz White is on leave, but would be a fourth year doctoral student in the Human Development and Social Policy program at Northwestern University.  Katie received her bachelor’s degree from Carleton College in political science and a Master’s degree from DePaul in education, as well as one from Northwestern University from the School of Education and Social Policy.  Before coming to Northwestern, Katie taught in Chicago area schools for almost five years.  Katie’s work with Professor McAdams has been to analyze stories of principal school leadership told by Chicago Public School principals in collaboration with Prof. James Spillane through a Spencer Foundation fellowship.  Katie is also a fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program of Education Sciences at Northwestern and is working on differences in expert and novice principal problem solving.  Her current work centers on the roots of generativity:  asking how urban adolescents engage in civic life and develop political identity.

 
Weninger, Attila
MA, Education and Social Policy , Northwestern University, 1979