Kate Kennedy

Kate Kennedy
Kate Kennedy
PhD Student,
University of Southern California

Kate Kennedy is a PhD student in urban education policy at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, where she is a Senior Doctoral Researcher with PACE. Kennedy studies the K–12 American educational landscape, focusing on politics, leadership, and equity education policy. She also works on education policy initiatives as a research associate at the Center on Education Policy, Equity, and Governance. Kennedy is an alumna of Teach for America and taught for ten years in the Los Angeles Unified School District and in Worthington city schools outside of Columbus, Ohio. 

updated 2019

Publications by Kate Kennedy
Insights from Outlier Schools
There is a growing consensus in education that schools can and should attend to students’ social-emotional development. Emerging research and popular texts indicate that students’ mindsets, beliefs, dispositions, emotions, and behaviors can advance…
California’s shift towards continuous improvement in education makes understanding how districts and schools can learn to improve a more pressing question than ever. The CORE Improvement Community (CIC), a network of California school…