Current position: Director of the Houston Education Research Consortium, The Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University
Brief bio: The Houston Education Research Consortium bridges research, policy, and practice to solve critical problems facing the nation’s fifth-largest metropolitan area. In partnership with Houston-area school districts serving over 700,000 students, teams under Dr. Baumgartner's direction are pursuing a research agenda focused on equity, opportunity, and access for students. Topics include early childhood education, social and emotional learning, postsecondary readiness, school choice, teaching and staffing. Dr. Baumgartner's primary research and teaching interests are in sociology of education and family, social stratification and demography, the educational role of the family, research methods, and quantitative methods.
Website: https://kinder.rice.edu/people/erin-baumgartner
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