Ira Lit

Ira Lit

Professor (Teaching)
Assistant: Elizabeth Chesler
Office: Raikes 112

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

Program affiliations

CTE
CTE: Elementary Education
CTE: Teacher Education
Race, Inequality, and Language in Education (RILE)
(MA) STEP
Stanford Accelerator for Learning

Research interests

Education Policy | Educational Inequality | Elementary Education | Politics of Education | Teacher Education | Teacher Preparation

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.