Ira Lit
          
      
              Professor (Teaching)
              STEP Faculty Director
           
   
                    
          
                    
                    
                    
  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
        
                                                                                                                                            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.