Graduate School of Education
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Connie Juel
Professor of Education, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPoor Reading in Preterms: Neural Basis, Prediction, & Response to Intervention (with Heidi Feldman & Michal Ben Shachar). Five-year grant funded by NICHD, 2012-2017.
Effects of early elementary school instruction, and specific interventions, on literacy and language growth.
Longitudinal study of literacy development from preschool through first grade. Focus on classroom factors in 13 kindergarten and 13 first grade classrooms that affect growth across the years in children with different entering skill and language profiles. -
Rita Kamani-Renedo
Ph.D. Student in Education, admitted Autumn 2021
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy primary research sits at the intersections of im/migration, education, racialization, and language. I am an interdisciplinary scholar who draws on sociology, linguistic and educational anthropology, ethnic studies, and critical theory to examine and understand the experiences of im/migrant and transnational youth within educational contexts. I am also interested in thinking about how teachers can support their students' languages, literacies, and civic identities in classrooms. I am a former teacher of multilingual, recently-arrived im/migrant youth.
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Michael Kamil
Professor of Education, Emeritus
BioDr. Kamil's work is concerned with the effects of technology on literacy and its acquisition. His research determines the types of materials that are best suited for use in beginning reading instruction and the appropriate balance between applications of technology and the demands of literacy. He also conducts research with English language learners. A current study examines the effects of recreational reading of information text on reading achievement of ELL students.
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Blair Bohannan Kaneshiro
Director of Research & Development, Research Staff - Other
BioBlair Kaneshiro is Director of Research & Development (Academic Staff - Research) in the Graduate School of Education and Adjunct Professor of Music. She completed the BA in Music; MA in Music, Science, and Technology; MS in Electrical Engineering; and PhD in Computer-Based Music Theory and Acoustics, all from Stanford. She has worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford (Music), Research Scientist at Stanford School of Medicine (Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery), and has held industry roles at Shazam and Smule. Research interests: Multivariate EEG decoding, ecologically valid stimuli, musical engagement, user studies, music information retrieval.
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Ari Y. Kelman
Jim Joseph Professor of Education and Jewish Studies
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsProfessor Kelman's research focuses on the forms and practices of religious knowledge transmission. His work emerges at the intersection of sociocultural learning theory and scholarly/critical studies of religion, and his methods draw on the social sciences and history. Currently Professor Kelman is at work on a variety of projects ranging from a history of religious education in the post-war period to an inquiry about Google's implicit definitions of religion.
