How Research-Practice Partnership Collaboration Can Inform Education Policy and Practice: Examples from Los Angeles

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Saturday 9:45 am - Gold 3

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium will describe how a long-standing research practice partnership (RPP) in Los Angeles supports local educational improvement. Using three research projects as illustrative cases, teams of central office school district staff members and university researchers will share their insights about working together, the processes that have facilitated the development of evidence that the district finds useful, and barriers to research use. The symposium will be of interest to conference participants whose work focuses on educational improvement, education policy, evidence use, and research practice partnerships. It will also interest participants whose work intersects with one of the varied substantive topics of the projects (school transportation, ethnic studies courses, and middle school math tracking).

Sub Unit

• SIG-Research Use

Chair

• Meredith Phillips, University of California - Los Angeles

Papers

• Student Transportation Inequality in Los Angeles: A Research-Practice Partnership Project - Samuel Joseph Speroni, University of California - Los Angeles

• Supporting Implementation of an Ethnic Studies Policy Using Research From a Long-Term Research-Practice Partnership - Kyo Yamashiro, Loyola Marymount University; Lucrecia Santibanez, University of California - Los Angeles

• Using Research on Math Tracking to Inform School District Approaches to Math Course Access - Carrie Miller, University of California - Los Angeles; Meredith Phillips, University of California - Los Angeles

Session Organizer

• Meredith Phillips, University of California - Los Angeles