Posts from Madeline Pérez
Madeline Pérez began her career in education as a community organizer supporting low-income communities and worked at Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation and the Fifth Avenue Committee. She then became a consultant in the area of parent and community engagement and has worked with New Visions for Public Schools, New Leaders for New Schools, and the Center for Immigrant Families. She is currently an assistant professor in social work and the Director of the Institute for Latino Community Practice at the University of Saint Joseph in Connecticut. Her research has appeared in CENTRO: The Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies and a book entitled “Theory and Educational research: Towards a Critical Social Explanation.”
Useable Knowledge
December 3, 2012
The Useable Knowledge series brings education research to GothamSchools readers. In this installment, Madeline Pérez presents her research into how families approach the high school admission process. Eighth-graders must submit high school applications by Dec. 10, a week from today.
A public high school admissions process that serves mostly low-income people of color but is based on white, middle-class assumptions must be redesigned. Providing school choices — such as by creating more small high schools or welcoming charter schools — is not enough to improve the prospects of students’ high school placements. (more…)
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