Tara-Marie Desruisseaux

Tara-Marie Desruisseaux
Tara-Marie Desruisseaux
Doctoral Student,
University of Southern California

Tara-Marie Desruisseaux is a doctoral student at the University of Southern California. Her research interests include creating culturally sustaining math teaching practice, helping teachers foster the development of positive math identities in Black students, and ending racial inequalities in education.

updated 2020

Contributing topics
Educational governance & policy
Understanding, measuring & improving student outcomes
Contributing initiatives
PACE/USC Rossier Voter Poll
Tara-Marie Desruisseaux in the Media
: Does ‘the Achievement Gap’ Evoke a Negative Stereotype? What the Research Says
Publications by Tara-Marie Desruisseaux
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Voters’ Opinions on Educational Equity Initiatives in California
Evidence from the 2020 PACE/USC Rossier Annual Poll
We use data from the 2020 PACE/USC Rossier annual voter poll to report on California voters’ attitudes towards educational equity policy initiatives, specifically: (a) increasing the number of public school teachers of color in California and (b)…