ELPS Faculty
Jeanne M. Powers Assistant Professor Educational Leadership & Policy Studies Email: jeanne.powers@asu.edu Office: Farmer 120T Phone: 480.965.0841 Fax: 480.965.1880

Education

Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, Department of Sociology, 2002.

• Fields of Concentration: Sociology of Education, Social Stratification, and Race.
• Committee: Hugh B. Mehan (chair), Maria Charles, Stephen E. Cornell, David G. Gutierrez, and Paula Levin.
• Dissertation: From the Factory Model to the Market Model: Charter Schools and the Changing Landscape of American Education.

M.A. University of California, Irvine, Program in Comparative Culture, 1994.

B.A. Tufts University, Medford, MA, Department of International Relations, 1990.

Fellowships And Awards

• UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2000.
• UCSD Civic Collaborative Grantee and Participant, 1999-2000.
• Spencer Foundation Mentoring Grant to Hugh B. Mehan. Dissertation Fellowship. Winter 2000.
• University of California, San Diego. Department of Sociology. Dissertation Fellowship. Fall 1999.
• AERA/Spencer Doctoral Fellowship. 1998-99.
• Pacific Sociological Association. Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, 1997.
• University of California, San Diego. Regents Fellowship. 1994-95.

Publications

Powers, Jeanne M. and Paula L. Chapman. (in press). Genre Studies in the San Diego City Schools: Accelerating or Tracking? NASSP Bulletin.

Powers, Jeanne M. (in press) The Contributions of Critical Race Theory to Educational Theory and Practice. Journal of Philosophy of Education.

Powers, Jeanne M. (in press). “Charter schools.” In Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education, edited by Eugene V. Provenzo. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Powers, Jeanne M. (in press). NAACP. In Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, edited by Gary Anderson and Kathryn Herr. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.

Powers, Jeanne M. 2004. “High Stakes Accountability and Equity: Using Evidence from California’s Public Schools Accountability Act to Address the Issues in Williams v. State of California.” American Educational Research Journal, 41: 763-795.

Powers, Jeanne. M. 2004, March 3. “Increasing Equity and Increasing School Performance—Conflicting or Compatible Goals?: Addressing the Issues in Williams v. State of California.” Education Policy Analysis Archives, 12(10).

Powers, Jeanne M. 2003. “An Analysis of Performance-Based Accountability: Factors Shaping School Performance in Two Urban School Districts. Educational Policy, 17: 558-585.

Charles, Maria, Marlis Buchmann, Susan Halebsky, Jeanne M. Powers, and Marisa M. Smith. 2001. “Contextual Variability in Female Market Careers: A Comparison of White American, Black American, and Swiss Women.” Work and Occupations, 28: 371-396.

• Nominee for the 2002 Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research.

Jeanne M. Powers and Peter W. Cookson, Jr. 1999. “The Politics of Choice Research: Fact, Fiction and Statistics.” Educational Policy, 13: 104-122.

• Reprinted in Accuracy or Advocacy? The Politics of Educational Research. Bruce S. Cooper and E. Vance Randall, eds. 1999. Newbury Park: Corwin Press.
• Reprinted in Exploring Education: An Introduction to the Foundations of Education. Alan R. Sadovnik, Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Susan F. Semel. 2000. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.

Works in Progress

Powers, Jeanne M. and Lirio Patton. Between Mendez and Brown: Gonzales v. Sheely (1951) and the Legal Campaign Against Segregation. Accepted pending revisions in Law and Social Inquiry.

Powers, Jeanne M. and Carl Hermanns. School Choice and NCLB—Can We Leave No Child Behind and No School Behind?: An Analysis of the Eugene School District 4J's Efforts to Make School Choice More Equitable. Under review at Urban Review.

Powers, Jeanne M. Charter Schools: Reform Imagery, and Reform Reality. Book manuscript in preparation.

Powers, Jeanne M. Theories of Teaching and Learning in an Age of Standardized Testing. Manuscript to be submitted to American Journal of Education.

Powers, Jeanne M. Milestones on the Road to Brown: Mexican American Segregation Cases in the Southwest. Manuscript in preparation.

Presentations

From Tourist to Learner: Developing Students' Research Skills (with David Garcia and Timothy Begaye). University Council for Educational Administration Annual Meeting, San Antonio. November 2006.

"Mexican Americans' Quest for Educational Equity in Arizona" (with Lirio Patton). American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco. April 2006.

“School Choice and NCLB – Can We Leave No Child Behind and No School Behind?: An Analysis of the Eugene School District 4J’s Efforts to Make School Choice More Equitable” (with Carl Hermanns). Sociology of Education Section No Child Left Behind Conference, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. August 2005.

“Comparing Accountability and Organizational Capacity in Charter Schools and Conventional Public Schools.” American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. April 2005.

“Brown Action Before Brown: Mexican Americans and the Legal Challenges Against Segregation in Arizona” (with Lirio Patton). American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada. April 2005.

“High-Stakes Accountability and Equity: Using Evidence from California’s Public Schools Accountability Act to Address the Issues in Williams v. State of California.” Sociology of Education Association Annual Conference, Pacific Grove, CA. February 2005.

“The Rights of Arizona’s Language Minority Students in Historical Context” (with Lirio Patton). The Arizona Language Minority Rights Research Roundtable of Arizona. Tempe, AZ. January, 2005.

“Understanding the Relationship Between Policy Talk and Implementation: A Comparison of Charter Schools with Conventional Public Schools.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. August 2004.

“Decentralization and Equity: Competing or Complementary Reform Agendas?: Charter School Enrollment Trends Across State Contexts.” American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. April 2004.

“Systemic Reform and Student Outcomes: Does an Intervention Program Increase the Academic Achievement of Underperforming Students?” (with Paula Chapman). American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. April 2004.

“Brown Action Before Brown: The Desegregation of Mexican Schools in Arizona (with Lirio Patton).” Sociology of Education Association Annual Conference, Pacific Grove, CA. February 2004

“English Language Learners and the Academic Performance Index: What Can API Data Tell Us About English Language Learners.” UC Language Minorities Research Institute Conference, San Diego, CA. May 2003.

“What Matters? Evaluating the Determinants of School Performance.” American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. April 2003.

“Student Placement into Genre Studies in the San Diego City Schools” (with Paula Chapman). American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL. April 2003.

“Longitudinal Trends in Charter School Enrollment Across Two State Contexts: California and Minnesota.” Sociology of Education Association Annual Conference. Pacific Grove, CA. February 2002.

“Unpacking Performance-based Accountability: The Relative Influence of Student Characteristics and Teachers' Educational Background and Experience on School Performance in Two Urban School Districts.” American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA. August 2001.

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, Division of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Mary Lou Fulton College of Education, Arizona State University.

• Researching and Writing the Literature Review, Spring 2004.
• Research in Binational Studies
• Race, Class, Gender
• The Sociology of Teaching and Learning
• The American Educational System
• Sociocultural Perspectives on Educational Equity
• Cultural Diversity in Education
• Sociology of Education

Teaching Associate, University of California, San Diego. Designed and taught upper-division undergraduate courses; supervised teaching assistants.

• Introduction to Sociology. Department of Sociology. Summer 2001
• The Social Organization of Education. Department of Sociology/Teacher Education Program. Fall 1997, Summer 1998, Fall 1998.

Research Experience

Graduate Student Researcher directed by Dr. Hugh B. Mehan, Department of Sociology, University of California San Diego, January 2001 to December 2001. Project title: “Reform as Learning: Systematic Educational Reform in the San Diego City Schools.”

• Responsibilities: Ethnographic research in school settings; qualitative and quantitative data analysis for a research project examining the impact of systemic reform in a large urban school district.

Graduate Student Researcher directed by Dr. Maria Charles, Department of Sociology, Unversity of California, San Diego, Summer 1995 to Spring 1999.

• Responsibilities: data preparation, variable construction and preliminary statistical modeling for a research project comparing women’s education and occupational attainment in the United States and Switzerland.

Graduate Student Researcher directed by Dr. Ricardo Stanton-Salazar, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego, Summer 1996.

• Responsibilities: coding of qualitative data for a research project examining the importance of social networks in the educational attainment of Mexican-origin youth.

Consultant for Dr. Patricia Cronin, Principal Evaluator, Haverhill Public Schools Health Survey, Haverhill Community Partnership, Haverhill MA, Summer 1994.

• Responsibilities: statistical analysis of surveys. Bivariate and multivariate data analysis including multidimensional scale analysis.

Activities

Board Member, Sociology of Education Association. 2002-2004.

Contributor.

• Course syllabus included in Teaching Resources in the Sociology of Education. 2000. Jeanne Ballantine, ed. Washington D.C.: American Sociological Association.

Manuscript and Conference Reviewer.

• Journal of Language and Identity in Education, 2006.
• Social Forces, 2006
• Educational Researcher, 2005.
• Excellence and Equity in Education, 2004.
• Social Problems, 2003, 2004, 2005.
• Teachers College Record, 2002.
• Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. 2001, 2003.
• American Educational Research Association. 2000, 2001, 2004, 2005.
• Sociological Perspectives. 1998.
• Fundamentals of Educational Research: A Guide to Completing the Masters Thesis (Book manuscript submitted to Christopher-Gordon Publishers, Inc.), 2005.
• Reviewer, American Educational History: A Journey Through Time (Book manuscript submitted to Sage Publications), 2005.
• Introduction to Teaching (Textbook proposal submitted to Wiley Press), 2003.

Grant Reviewer.

• California Department of Education Public Charter Schools Grant Program. 2000, 2001.

Conference Organizer.

• “Rethinking Race, Troubling Empiricism.” Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, University of California, San Diego. February 1998.

Organizational Affiliations

• American Sociological Association.
• American Educational Research Association.
• Sociology of Education Association.
• Law and Society Association.