education policy analysis archives

Serena J. Salloum
Ball State University

Serena J. Salloum is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at Ball State University. She is interested in how school context facilitates educational outcomes. In particular, she focuses on how organizational culture and structure promotes equity in high poverty schools. Current projects include investigating the instructional resources State Educational Agencies endorse for Common Core implementation and implications for classroom instruction and how early career teachers’ planning and enactment of mathematics instruction is influenced by their social network members and social context. 

Emily M. Hodge
Montclair State University
United States

Emily M. Hodge, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership at Montclair State University. She received her PhD from the Department of Education Policy Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her work uses qualitative methods and social network analysis to understand the changing nature of strategies for educational equity. Recent projects have explored how educational systems, schools, and teachers negotiate the tension between standardization and differentiation in the context of the Common Core State Standards, and the varied strategies state education agencies are using to support standards implementation.

Susanna L. Benko
Ball State University

Susanna L. Benko is an associate professor of English at Ball State University, where she teaches courses about writing pedagogy and young adult literature. She is also the Director of the Indiana Writing Project and Director of English Education. As a teacher and researcher, she is interested in the teaching of writing—in practice and in policy—at middle and secondary levels. Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of Literacy Research, English Education, Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, and English Teaching: Practice and Critique. Prior to her work at Ball State, she taught middle and high school English in Indiana and Pennsylvania.