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Natalia A. Palacios MPES Cohort 1, Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences 617 Library Place Room 3rd fl. Evanston, IL 60201-2907 Phone: (847) 467-6907

Biography

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. 

Curriculum Vitae

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Websites

Inquiry Fall 2006 article

Awards/Honors

2008 - Dissertation Year Fellowship, Northwestern University

2004 - MPES Fellow (IES Training Grant)

2003 - APA Minority Fellowship

Research/Scholarship
Education

Year		Degree		Institution
2007		MA, Education and Social Policy Human Development and Social Policy		Northwestern University
2001		BA, Psychology		Brown University

Research Interests

Achievement, early childhood education, childcare, and education policy; focus on low-income, minority and immigrant families.

Lab Affiliations

Welfare, Children and Families: A Three-City Study

Teaching/Advising
Committees (PhD)

Start		End		Name		Position		Description
				Dissertation Committee		Chair		P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Ph.D.
				Dissertation Committee		Member		Greg J. Duncan, Ph.D.
				Dissertation Committee		Member		James P. Spillane, Ph.D.