Ruth L贸pez, PhD Candidate in the Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice program,聽has been awarded a 2014-15 American Educational Reserach Association (AERA) Minority Dissertation Fellowship.聽The fellowship provides $12,000 and up to $1,000聽for AERA conference travel so that fellows can develop their promising dissertation research with the broader goal of聽advancing聽education research by outstanding minority graduate students and improving聽the quality and diversity of university faculties.
Ruth is a Research Associate聽at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR)聽at Brown University, where she聽contributes to the聽More and Better Learning Time project, which aims to adapt the school day and year to the learning needs of students and the lives of working families, as well as聽the evaluation of We Are a Village, a U.S. Department of Education鈥揻unded grant to improve family engagement in Central Falls, Rhode Island.聽As an聽expert regarding the rights of undocumented students to attend higher education, she聽recently testified at the Rhode Island House Committee on聽Finance in support of the state DREAM Act, which can be seen at the .
Ruth's dissertation is entitled, "Through No Fault of Their Own? A Comparative Critical Discourse Analysis聽of Undocumented Youth and the DREAM Act in Spanish-language and聽English-language Television News."