NEERA was established in 2016 as a research-practice partnership by leaders of Northwestern’s School of Education and Social Policy and Evanston school districts to address equity and achievement issues in the community. NEERA makes sure everyone in the research cycle is informed and supported so we can reach our goals: mutually-defined priorities, more efficient data sharing, faster turnaround of results, and more relevant research. All of this increases the chances that the findings will be used.
Equitable Computer Science for All Learning Ecosystems: Developing Underserved Students’ Computational Making Literacies Through Community-Embedded Out of School Time Programming
Partners
- Evanston/Skokie School District 65
- Evanston Township District 202
- McGaw YMCA
- MetaMedia at Foster School
This project is designed to build learning hubs for out-of-school time learning in STEAM, with a focus on computational learning and making.
Biology, Identity and Opportunity (BIO)
Partners
- Principal Investigators: Emma Adam (School of Education and Social Policy) and Mesmin Destin (School of Education and Social Policy/Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences)
- Funded by the Spencer Foundation
This study is measuring and testing how racial and ethnic stressors affect the stress hormone cortisol, sleep hours, sleep quality, cognition, and academic outcomes in high school students.
Exploiting Network Structure in Routing Problems: Applications to School Bus Routing
Partners
- PIs: Karen Smilowitz (pictured), Sunil Chopra and Jill Hardin Wilson (McCormick)
- Funded by the National Science Foundation
Bus transportation project that is working to save costs and reduce inequity while maintaining service in District 65.