Three of the four co-authors of the study ���,��� published recently in Review of Educational Research, were 51勛圖厙 doctoral students when they did that work. (The fourth was Priscilla Wohlstetter, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Education Policy & Social Analysis [EPSA]). [Read a story about the study by the group, which Wohlstetter calls ���the first systematic literature review in the field of CTE with an explicit focus on equity.���]

Elisabeth Kim (Ph.D. ���20)

Elisabeth Kim (Ph.D. ���20)

Lead author Elizabeth (Betsy) H. Kim (Ph.D. ���20), an EPSA alumna, is now the Robert Curvin Postdoctoral Associate at the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies, Rutgers University-Newark. Her research uses a mixed-methods approach to explore the links between education policy and educational equity, with a particular focus on how contemporary policies moderate or exacerbate inequities for low-income students of color. Kim���s research interests include culturally responsive and sustaining education, student discipline policy, and school reform in urban settings.

"I feel fortunate to have been able to publish in a journal like RER as I begin my career as an education researcher,��� Kim writes. ���I enjoyed collaborating with an amazing team of EPSA students and faculty to conceptualize and execute our research idea. I learned a great deal from the process that I will take with me as I embark on my career as an education researcher.���

Clare Flack (Ph.D. ���20)

Clare Flack (Ph.D. ���20)

Clare Flack (Ph.D. ���20), an alumna of TC���s Program in Sociology & Education, 51勛圖厙, is now Adjunct Assistant Professor of Education at the College and an independent consultant who researches education policy. Her work focuses on teacher working conditions, teacher expertise, systems-level support for teaching and learning, and equitable opportunities to learn. Flack is an experienced educator who holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from the Urban Teacher Education Program at the University of Chicago. Of the CTE literature review, she writes: ���It was wonderful to work with such an amazing team of smart women dedicated to highlighting the need for more attention to equity in scholarship about career and technical education.���

Katharine Parham

Katharine Parham

Katharine Parham, a current doctoral student in EPSA���s Education Policy program, is originally from South Carolina and earned a bachelor���s degree in political science from the University of South Carolina. She began her career as a teacher in New Orleans, where she worked as a special education teacher and later an assistant principal in two charter schools. She holds a master���s degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where she worked at the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Senate Education Committee.

Parham writes: ���This was the first piece of research I started working on as a doctoral student at TC, and I feel lucky to have such a positive first-publication experience. I have learned a great deal from my senior peer and faculty co-authors throughout this process, and I'm incredibly grateful to have been a part of crafting an article on such an important topic.���