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Kathleen M. Shaw

Kathleen M. Shaw, Associate Professor of Urban Education
(on leave 2006-2008)
Educational Leadership and Policy Studies

Ritter Hall 252
1301 Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6091

phone: (215) 204-8046
kathleen.shaw@temple.edu

Education

Ph.D. University of Michigan, Higher Education
B.A. Colby College, Waterville, ME, English and American Studies

Areas of Professional Interest

  • Educational Policy
  • Urban Education
  • Systems Access and Equity
  • Social Mobility
  • Community Colleges

My research generally focuses on policies related to equity and access, and the ways that broader social policy affects educational policy and outcomes. At present, I am directing a three-year study of the ways welfare reform has affected poor women’s access to college. Together with a team of researchers at Temple, I am conducting an evaluation of Child Care Matters, an initiative designed to increase the availability of high-quality child care for low-income families in the Philadelphia area. Because of these interests, I was made a Research Fellow at Temple’s Center for Public Policy.

Recent Scholarship

Shaw, Kathleen M. and Coleman Ashaki (2000). Humble on Sundays: Family, friends and faculty in the upward mobility experiences of African American females. Anthropology and Education Quarterly.

Shaw, Kathleen M. (2000). Reframing remedial education: An examination of remediation as a systemic phenomenon. In Townsend, B. (Ed.), Community colleges; Policy in future contexts. Stamford, CT: Ablex.

Shaw, Kathleen M., Valadez, James and Rhoads, Rober, eds. (1999). Community colleges as cultural texts: Qualitative explorations of organizational and student culture. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Shaw, Kathleen M. (1998). The interplay between ideology, culture, and educational mobility: A typology of urban community colleges with high transfer rates. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. San Diego, CA.

Shaw, Kathleen M. (1997). Remedial education as ideological battleground: Emerging remedial education policies and their implications for community college student mobility. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 19:3, 284-296.

Shaw, Kathleen M. and Replogle, Elaine (1996). Challenges in evaluating school-linked services: Toward a more comprehensive evaluation framework. Evaluation Review 20:4, 424-469.

London, Howard B. and Shaw, Kathleen M. (1996). Enlarging the transfer paradigm: Practice and culture in the American community college. Metropolitan Universities 7:2, 7-14.