Rachel

Durham

School of Education

Education

• Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University
• M.A. in Sociology, Arizona State University
• B.A. in Sociology, University of Mississippi

Bio

Dr. Rachel E. Durham is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Notre Dame of Maryland University since August 2020. She previously served as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and a researcher with the Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC) from 2007 to 2011 and 2013 to 2020.  From 2011 to 2013, Dr. Durham was a member of the Education Project Team at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital housed at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in Vienna, Austria.

Dr. Durham’s areas of expertise include the transition to postsecondary, full service community schools, immigration and education, and research-practice partnerships. She has published research in a number of peer-reviewed outlets, is past Secretary and current Program Co-Chair for Division H of the American Educational Research Association. Currently, she is co-PI on an NSF-funded project involving an informal algebra-for-engineering intervention in Baltimore, and co-PI on an IES-funded study examining the impact of CTE on college and career pathways. Dr. Durham teaches Dissertation Seminar and Methodology in the Instructional/Higher Education Leadership for Changing Populations PhD programs, and has additional teaching interests in statistics/quantitative methods and educational policy and equity.

Selected Publications and Presentations

• Durham, R.E. (2020). Predictors of Career and College Persistence among Baltimore City Schools Graduates: Implications for Differences between Career and College Destinations. Baltimore, MD: Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center. https://mldscenter.maryland.gov/egov/Publications/ExternalResearchReports/MLDS_Report_PostsecondaryPathwaysBaltimoreCitySchoolsGrads_June2020.pdf
• Klinger, A., & Durham, R.E. (2022). Language minority students identified for special education: Proportional representation across elementary years. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, CA.
• Savick, S., Durham, R.E., Silver, P. Letizia, A., & Watson, M.L. (2022). Professional development and community school models meet to make a difference. In J.A. Ferrara, J.L. Nath, & R. Beebe (Eds.), Professional development school (PDS) and community schools: The nexus of practice. Information Age Publishing.
• Arnold, K. T., Pollack Porter, K. M., Frattaroli, S., Durham, R. E., Mmari, K., Clary, L. K., & Mendelson, T. (2020). Factors that Influenced Adoption of a School-Based Trauma-Informed Universal Mental Health Intervention. Prevention Science, 1-12.
• Durham, R.E., Smith, Z., & Cronister, C. (2020). Baltimore College Fact Book: Data Digest of College Access Outcomes. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Education Research Consortium. https://baltimore-berc.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/BaltimoreCollegeFactBookJune2020.pdf
• Connolly, F., Durant, T., & Durham, R. E. (2020). Indicators to assist in addressing equity through policy adoption. Teachers College Record, 122(14), 1-32. doi.org/10.1177/016146812012201411
• Durham, R. E., Shiller, J., Connolly, F. (2019). Student attendance: A persistent challenge and leading indicator for Baltimore’s Community School Strategy. Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk, 24(3), 218-243.
• Durham, R.E., Connolly, F. (2018). Launching into Adulthood: 2009 Graduates of Baltimore City Public Schools. Research Brief Series. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Education Research Consortium. https://baltimore-berc.org/launching-into-adulthood/
• Durham, R. E., Bell-Ellwanger, J., Connolly, F., Howard Robinson, K., Olson, L., Rone, T. (2015). University-district partnership research to understand college readiness among Baltimore City students. Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk, 20(1-2), 120-140.
• Barakat, B. F., Durham, R. E. (2014). Future education trends. In Wolfgang Lutz, William Butz, Samir KC (Eds). World Population and Human Capital in the 21st Century (pp. pp. 397-433). Oxford University Press.
• Barakat, B. F., Durham, R. E. (2013). Dropout mayors and graduate farmers: Educational fertility differentials by occupational status and industry in six European countries. Demographic Research, 28, 1213-1262.
• Bodovski, K., Durham, R. E. (2010). Parental practices and achievement of Mexican and Chinese immigrant children in the U.S.: Assimilation patterns? Research in Comparative and International Education, 5(2), 156-175.
• Durham, R. E., Farkas, G., Scheffner-Hammer, C., Tomblin, B., Catts, H. (2007). Kindergarten oral language skill: A key variable in the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 25, 294-305.