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Research assistant/intern wanted to help renowned author Jon Saphier with research on new book on education policy and update of The Skillful Teacher.

Duties include:
  • Review and update references cited in the two publications

  • Research answers to questions, for example:
  • “What is the student population and the number of teachers employed in all the urban centers on the U.S. with populations over 500,000?” Break it out by city.
  • “As Richard Allington and Tim Shanahan have done for literacy, who are the authors and what are the guiding principles for successful teaching of mathematics that are validated by research?”
  • True or False: There are no formal structures in education to connect expert practitioners with researchers, researchers with professional preparation programs at their own IHE, policy makers and think tanks with any of the above communities. 

  • Read selected books and summarize them. “Summarize” means recount the main points and the arguments, evidence or rationale for those points. 

  • Manage submissions to journals.