Fulcher-Dawson, Rachel
Rachel
Fulcher-Dawson is an Educational Policy student with a
background in politics and government at the federal level. She
taught middle school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin as a part of the
Central City Teaching Partnership, which pairs recent college
graduates with inner city private schools in Milwaukee. Rachel
has a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Masters in
Public Policy.
Rachel’s
research interests center on the politics of education,
specifically the impact of federalism on practice and policy and
the democratic purposes of education in the American society.
She is particularly interested in the fiscal and political
(governmental, ideological and partisan) impacts on the
development of policy and on its implementation in states,
districts, schools and classrooms. Rachel is focusing her
policy work on the areas of early childhood education and school
choice and her research work on issue framing in education,
policy innovation and diffusion, and capacity building in
educational reforms. Rachel is funded by a Dean’s Scholar Award
from the College of Education and a Summer Research Training
Grant to collect and analyze data for a paper.
Publications and Presentations:
Davis, T.,
Arsen, D., Clay, T., Devaney, T., Fulcher-Dawson, R., and Plank,
D. (2005) Adequacy, Equity and Capital Spending in Michigan
Schools: The Unfinished Business of Proposal A. Michigan
State University Education Policy Center/Citizens Research
Council. Retrieved from
http://www.epc.msu.edu/publications/publications.htm
Fulcher-Dawson, R. (2006) State Policy Diffusion: Do
Institutions Matter? Paper presented at the Midwest
Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
Fulcher-Dawson, R. (2006) Trends in Education Policy.
Panelist, Midwest Political Science Association Conference,
Chicago, IL.
