State University of New York at New Paltz

Faculty Member, Education Studies

Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations

School of Education

Thesis Title: Gateways and Get-aways: Urban Youth, School (Non) Completion, and the GED

About

Eve Tuck is an assistant professor of educational foundations at the State University of New York at New Paltz.  Her participatory action research with youth has been on the unintended consequences of education policies such as high school exit exams and graduation requirements on school push-out, and use of the GED credential by youth and schools.  She has also conducted a participatory action research study with youth on the impacts of mayoral control, lack of community input, and neoliberalism on New York City public schools.  Her writing, which has been concerned with Indigenous theories, qualitative research, research ethics, and theories of change, has appeared in the Harvard Educational Review, the Urban Review and several edited volumes, including Ethical Futures in Qualitative Research and the Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies.  She is co-author of Theory and Educational Research: Toward Critical Social Explanation.

Research

The Youth Researchers for a New Education System Project, Principal Investigator, November 2006−November 2007

*Featured in "Courage: The Vision to End Segregation, the Guts to fight for It" an exhibit at the Schomberg Center for Research on Black Culture, New York Public Library

The Gateways and Get-aways Project by the Collective of Researchers on Educational Disappointment and Desire, Principal Investigator, February 2006−August 2007

Amplifying Youth Voices by the Global Rights Project, Research Consultant, November 2005−May 2007

Constructing a Social Justice Framework for Youth and Community Service, Research Assistant, May 2004−May 2005

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