Mavis Sanders

{{Short description|American scholar}}

Mavis G. Sanders is a senior principal researcher at the [http://Learning%20Policy%20Institute Learning Policy Institute], where she focuses on education policy, equity, and reform.

Education

Sanders received a Bachelor's in Urban Affairs with a concentration in political science from Barnard College/Columbia University in 1987.{{Cite web|title=Dr. Mavis G. Sanders|url=https://education.umbc.edu/files/2020/01/M-Sanders-cv2020.pdf|website=University of Maryland}} She received a Master's in Sociology from Stanford University in 1992 and a Ph.D. in Social Sciences, Policy, and Educational Practice from Stanford in 1995.{{Cite web|title=Dr. Mavis G. Sanders|url=https://education.umbc.edu/files/2020/01/M-Sanders-cv2020.pdf|website=University of Maryland}}{{Cite web|title=Mavis Sanders|url=https://www.childtrends.org/staff/mavis-sanders|access-date=15 December 2021|website=Child Trends|language=en-US}}

Career

From 1987 through 1989 Sanders taught social studies and English in Papua New Guinea in the Peace Corps.{{Cite web|title=Dr. Mavis G. Sanders|url=https://education.umbc.edu/files/2020/01/M-Sanders-cv2020.pdf|website=University of Maryland}}

Sanders was faculty at Johns Hopkins University and a research scientist at Hopkins' Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed at Risk. She was director of Hopkins' Urban Education program and assistant director of the National Network of Partnership Schools.{{Cite web|title=Mavis Sanders|url=https://www.childtrends.org/staff/mavis-sanders|access-date=15 December 2021|website=Child Trends|language=en-US}} In 2011, she received [https://gazette.jhu.edu/2011/05/23/class-acts/ Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award].

She was also a professor of education at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and from 2017 to 2021 was inaugural director of UMBC’s Sherman Center for Early Learning in Urban Communities.{{Cite web|title=Mavis Sanders|url=https://www.childtrends.org/staff/mavis-sanders|access-date=15 December 2021|website=Child Trends|language=en-US}}

In 2021 she moved to Washington DC research institute Child Trends as a senior research scholar.{{Cite web|title=Mavis Sanders|url=https://www.childtrends.org/staff/mavis-sanders|access-date=15 December 2021|website=Child Trends|language=en-US}}

Reception

In 2003 Pamela S. Angelle reviewed Schooling Students Placed at Risk (2000) in the Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk.{{Cite journal|last=Angelle|first=Pamela S.|date=2003-04-01|title=Book Review of Schooling Students Placed At Risk, by Mavis G. Sanders|url=https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327671ESPR0802_5|journal=Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk|volume=8|issue=2|pages=267–269|doi=10.1207/S15327671ESPR0802_5|s2cid=143046855|issn=1082-4669|url-access=subscription}}

In reviewing Sanders' 2005 Building School-Community Partnerships (reprinted in 2015), Soo Hong, writing in the Harvard Educational Review, said educators would find her work "a refreshing change." Hong notes that Sanders "makes two important distinctions as she lays the groundwork for her book: that community is not constrained by the geographical boundaries of neighborhoods, and that parental involvement — a part of community involvement — is not the focus of her book" and that the book challenges educators to work in ways that "move beyond a mere focus on parental involvement" and offers multiple concrete actionable ways to do so.

In 2020, Reuben Jacobson reviewed Sanders' latest book "Reviewing the Success of Full-Service Community Schools in the US: Challenges and Opportunities for Students, Teachers, and Communities" (with Claudia Galindo) in the School Community Journal.

Research interests

Sanders studies education, racial equity, youth development, Black families and children, and full-service community schools.{{Cite web|title=Mavis Sanders|url=https://www.childtrends.org/staff/mavis-sanders|access-date=15 December 2021|website=Child Trends|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|title=Mavis Sanders|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FFKWeF0AAAAJ&hl=en|access-date=15 December 2021|website=Google Scholar}}

Selected publications

Sanders has authored over 60 publications including:

  • {{Cite journal|last=Sanders|first=Mavis|date=1 January 1997|title=Overcoming obstacles: Academic achievement as a response to racism and discrimination|journal=Journal of Negro Education|volume=66|issue=1|publisher=Howard University Press|pages=83–93|doi=10.2307/2967253|jstor=2967253}}{{Cite web|title=Overcoming obstacles: Academic achievement as a response to racism and discrimination|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=FFKWeF0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=FFKWeF0AAAAJ:blknAaTinKkC|access-date=2021-12-17|website=Google Scholar}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Sanders|first=Mavis G.|year=1998|title=The effects of school, family, and community support on the academic achievement of African American adolescents|journal=Urban Education|publisher=SAGE Publications|volume=33|issue=3|pages=385–409|doi=10.1177/0042085998033003005|s2cid=145455503|issn=0042-0859}}{{Cite journal|title=The effects of school, family, and community support on the academic achievement of African American adolescents|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=FFKWeF0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=FFKWeF0AAAAJ:4DMP91E08xMC|access-date=2021-12-17|journal=Google Scholar| date=1998 | doi=10.1177/0042085998033003005 | last1=Sanders | first1=Mavis G. | volume=33 | issue=3 | pages=385–409 | url-access=subscription }}
  • {{Cite book|last=Sanders|first=Mavis G.|title=Schooling Students Placed at Risk: Research, Policy, and Practice in the Education of Poor and Minority Adolescents|date=2000|publisher=Routledge}}{{Cite book|last=Sanders|first=Mavis G.|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/SANSSP-2|title=Schooling Students Placed at Risk: Research, Policy, and Practice in the Education of Poor and Minority Adolescents|date=2000|publisher=Routledge}}
  • {{Cite journal|last=Sanders|first=Mavis G.|date=1 September 2001|title=The role of "community" in comprehensive school, family, and community partnership programs|journal=The Elementary School Journal|publisher=University of Chicago Press|volume=102|pages=19–34|doi=10.1086/499691|s2cid=144391874}}{{Cite journal|title=The role of" community" in comprehensive school, family, and community partnership programs|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=FFKWeF0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=FFKWeF0AAAAJ:ns9cj8rnVeAC|access-date=2021-12-17|journal=Google Scholar| date=2001 | doi=10.1086/499691 | last1=Sanders | first1=Mavis G. | volume=102 | pages=19–34 | url-access=subscription }}
  • {{Cite journal|last1=Sanders|first1=Mavis|last2=Harvey|first2=Adia|date=1 October 2002|title=Beyond the school walls: A case study of principal leadership for school-community collaboration.|journal=Teachers College Record|publisher=Columbia University|volume=104|issue=7|pages=1345–1368|doi=10.1111/1467-9620.00206|issn=0161-4681}}{{Cite journal|title=Beyond the school walls: A case study of principal leadership for school-community collaboration.|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=FFKWeF0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=FFKWeF0AAAAJ:b0M2c_1WBrUC|access-date=2021-12-17|journal=Google Scholar| date=2002 | doi=10.1111/1467-9620.00206 | last1=Sanders | first1=Mavis G. | last2=Harvey | first2=Adia | volume=104 | issue=7 | pages=1345–1368 | url-access=subscription }}
  • {{Cite book|last=Sanders|first=Mavis G.|title=Building School-Community Partnerships: Collaboration for Student Success|publisher=Corwin Press|year=2005|isbn=978-1-4522-8089-9|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Hong|first=Soo|date=Summer 2006|title=Building School-Community Partnerships by Mavis G. Sanders|url=https://www.hepg.org/her-home/issues/harvard-educational-review-volume-76-issue-2/herarticle/_170|access-date=2021-12-17|website=Harvard Educational Review}}{{Cite book|last=|first=|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mjL_9S4C7rsC&q=Building+School-Community+Partnerships+by+Mavis+G.+Sanders|title=Building School-Community Partnerships: Collaboration for Student Success|publisher=Corwin Press|year=2005|isbn=978-1-4522-8089-9|language=en}}
  • Hrabowski, F. & Sanders, M. (2015, Winter). [https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/84031/IncreasingRacialDiversityUniversity.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=yStrengthening%20Diversity%20in%20the%20Teaching%20Force:%20One%20University’s%20Perspective Strengthening Diversity in the Teaching Force: One University’s Perspective]. Thought & Action (The NEA Higher Education Journal), 32, 101-116.
  • Sanders, M. (2015). Leadership, Partnerships, and Organizational Development: Exploring Components of Effectiveness in Three Full-service Community Schools. [https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/nses20/current School Effectiveness and School Improvement], 27(2), 1-21.[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09243453.2015.1030432 doi.org/10.1080/09243453.2015.1030432]
  • Galindo, C., Sanders, M., & Abel, Y. (2017). Transforming Educational Experiences in Low Income Communities: A Qualitative Case Study of Social Capital in a Full-Service Community School. [https://journals.sagepub.com/home/aer American Educational Research Journal], Centennial Edition, 54(1S), 140-163.doi.org/10.3102/0002831216676571
  • {{Cite book|last1=Epstein|first1=Joyce|last2=Sanders|first2=Mavis|last3=Sheldon|first3=Steven|display-authors=2|title=School, family, and community partnerships: Your handbook for action|publisher=Corwin Press|year=2018}}{{Cite web|title=School, family, and community partnerships: Your handbook for action|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=FFKWeF0AAAAJ&citation_for_view=FFKWeF0AAAAJ:hFOr9nPyWt4C|access-date=2021-12-17|website=Google Scholar}}

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