Demetra Kalogrides

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Demetra Kalogrides
Research Associate, National Student Support Accelerator and the Educational Opportunity Project, Graduate School of Education,
Stanford University

Demetra Kalogrides is a research associate at the National Student Support Accelerator and the Educational Opportunity Project in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. Her research focuses on teachers, school leadership, achievement gaps, and school segregation. She previously served as a research associate at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, where she studied teacher effectiveness and directed data management for research-practice partnerships. Kalogrides earned a BA in sociology from Santa Clara University and an MA and PhD in sociology from the University of California, Davis.

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Contributing topics
College access & postsecondary success
Educator workforce & effectiveness
Supporting students’ social-emotional, mental & physical health
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
CORE-PACE Research Partnership
Getting Down To Facts II
Demetra Kalogrides in the Media
: School Poverty—Not Racial Composition—Limits Educational Opportunity, According to New Research at Stanford
: Question Format May Impact How Boys and Girls Score on Standardized Tests, Stanford Study Finds
: AERA: Early Results in California’s CORE Districts Give Lessons for ESSA
: Stanford Researchers Identify Troubling Patterns of Teacher Assignments within Schools
Publications by Demetra Kalogrides
Systematic Sorting: Teacher Characteristics and Class Assignments
Systematic Sorting
Teacher Characteristics and Class Assignments
This study examines teacher sorting within schools in a large urban district. It finds that less experienced, minority, and female teachers are assigned lower-achieving students than their more experienced, white, and male colleagues. The authors…