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Biography
Research and practice focuses on teacher education, elementary education, educational equity, and the design and purpose of education and schooling, as well as the exploration of the educational experience of students often marginalized by the school context.
Other titles
Professor (Teaching), Graduate School of Education
Affiliate, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Program affiliations
CTE
CTE: Elementary Education
CTE: Teacher Education
SHIPS (PhD): Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
(MA) STEP
Stanford Accelerator for Learning
Research interests
Diversity and Identity | Elementary Education | Parents and Family Issues | Special Education | Teachers and Teaching
Recent publications
Lit, I., & Darling-Hammond, L. (2015). The Threads They Follow: Bank Street Teachers in a Changing World. Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.
Lit, I. W. (2014). Bus Kids: Children's Experiences with Voluntary Desegregation. Yale University Press.
Goldenberg, C., Hicks, J., & Lit, I. (2013). Teaching young English learners. Handbook of Research-Based Practice in Early.