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Professor Billie Gastic
Department of Public Policy and Public Affairs
Education:
PhD, Stanford University, Sociology of Education
Research Interests and Specialties:
Violence and safety in schools and communities; educational policy; Latino youth; quantitative research methodologies
Dr. Gastic earned a Ph.D. in the Sociology of Education and an M.A. in Sociology from Stanford University. She has an Ed.M. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a B.A. in Economics from Yale University. The primary focus of her scholarship and research is the effectiveness and effects of policies, interventions and programs aimed at improving youth safety in communities and schools.
Her most recent work includes a study of No Child Left Behind's Unsafe School Choice Option and an analysis of the longitudinal effects of a district-wide school uniform policy in the School District of Philadelphia. Dr. Gastic is also the Principal Investigator of a three-year evaluation of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students grant of the William Penn School District in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Gastic is a leader within the American Educational Research Association. She currently serves as the Program Chair of the School Community, Climate and Culture SIG and is the former co-Program Chair (and Founding Chair) of the Safe Schools and Communities SIG. She is also a Founding Member of the Consortium to Prevent School Violence.
Academia.edu web site (with updated publications listed)
Courses taught
Public Policy course: Dissertation Seminar
Women In Politics and Public Policy course:
Case Study Methodology for Policy Analysis
Sample publication
Office Location: McCormack Hall, 3rd floor, room 426
Telephone: 617-287-4863
Email address: billie.gastic@umb.edu
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