A critical policy analysis of Texas’ Closing the Gaps 2015

Katherine Cumings Mansfield; Stefani Leigh Thachik

ISSN 1068-2341

EPAA/AAPE is a peer-reviewed, open-access, international, multilingual, and multidisciplinary journal designed for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and development analysts concerned with education policies. EPAA/AAPE accepts unpublished original manuscripts in English, Spanish and Portuguese without restriction as to conceptual and methodological perspectives, time or place. EPAA/AAPE publishes issues comprised of empirical articles, commentaries, and special issues at roughly weekly intervals, all of which pertain to educational policy, with direct implications for educational policy.

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Katherine Cumings Mansfield
Virginia Commonwealth University
United States

Katherine Cumings Mansfield (PhD, The University of Texas at Austin) is an assistant professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Mansfield’s interdisciplinary scholarship focuses on the social, historical, and political contexts of education and the relationship of class, gender, race/ethnicity, and religion on educational and vocational access and achievement. Mansfield has presented at American Educational Research Association, American Educational Studies Association, National Summit on Interdistrict Desegregation at Harvard Law School, Legal and Policy Options for Racially Integrated Education in the South and the Nation at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Law, and University Council for Educational Administration. Mansfield has published in a variety of venues including: Educational Administration Quarterly, Education Policy Analysis Archives, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and International Journal of Multicultural Education. In 2012, Dr. Mansfield was awarded the "Leadership for Social Justice Dissertation Award," sponsored by AERA's Leadership for Social Justice Special Interest Group and the "Selma Greenberg Outstanding Dissertation Award," sponsored by AERA's Research on Women and Education Special Interest Group for her dissertation entitled, "Troubling Social Justice in a Single-sex Public School: An Ethnography of an Emerging School Culture."

Stefani Leigh Thachik
Virginia Commonwealth University
United States

Stefani Leigh Thachik is a PhD candidate in leadership and policy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Thachik has a Masters in Counselor Education and Student Affairs Practice in Higher Education from Clemson University. Currently, her work includes investigating the sociocultural contexts of educational policy and practice as well as how connecting the K-12 and Higher Education sectors might result in better outcomes for underrepresented students. Thachik has presented at American Educational Research Association and University Council for Educational Administration.

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