State Secrets: How Transparent Are State School Report Cards About the Effects of COVID?
How easy would it be for a parent or advocate to compare student performance pre- and post-COVID? The short answer: in most states, it’s not...
Janette Avelar is a Research Fellow for the Canopy Project co-stewarded by CRPE and Transcend. She is a current PhD student at the University of Oregon in the Quantitative Research Methods in Education program and is completing an MS in Educational Methodology Policy and Leadership with a specialization in Educational Data Science. Her primary research interests lie in understanding how the intersection of race, language, and identity shape educational experiences for multilingual students, and is particularly interested in heritage language maintenance, Spanish heritage learners, and the programs that support them. Janette holds a BA in Spanish, English, and Latin American Studies from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.