Winchell, Sarah
Sarah Winchell began the Educational Policy program in Fall 2007. She most recently lived in New York City where she was a middle school English teacher in Brooklyn (as part of Teach for America) and a coordinator of a high school after school program. Sarah has a B.A. in English and Women's Studies from the University of Georgia and a M.S. in Teaching from Pace University in New York City. Sarah's interests center primarily around teacher policy, in the realms of teacher pay, teacher unions, and teacher quality. She is also interested in market-based reforms to improve schooling, such as school choice and pay-for-performance. She has researched such topics as the relationship between teacher pay and retention; student achievement in schools of choice; and the relationship between teacher unions, teacher quality, and perceptions of public schools.
Sarah has an assistantship with Dr. Rebecca Jacobsen, with whom she has worked on projects related to student citizenship outcomes and school segregation's relationship to political and civic participation. She also served as an intern in the Michigan Department of Education's Office of Professional Preparation, where she worked on a teacher preparation standards alignment project.
Sarah is supported through a Dean's Scholar Award.
