Tenice Hardaway

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Tenice Hardaway
Former Senior Research Associate,
Ace Awareness Foundation

Tenice Hardaway is a former senior research associate with the ACE Awareness Foundation, a nonprofit focused on building social-emotional health for students in Memphis, Tennessee. She was previously a policy and data analyst fellow with Whole Child Strategies. She was also an Education Pioneers Fellow and a community planning fellow at the Milano School for International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School, where she worked on early childhood education initiatives in East Harlem, New York. She is currently a public safety associate in administration and compliance at Loyola Marymount University. Hardaway earned her PhD in urban education policy from the University of Southern California, where she was a Dean’s Fellow in the Rossier School of Education.

updated 2025

Contributing initiatives
CORE-PACE Research Partnership
LCFF Research Collaborative
PACE/USC Rossier Voter Poll
Tenice Hardaway in the Media
: Results of Latest Pace/Rossier Poll Highlight Declining Support of Common Core
Publications by Tenice Hardaway
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Who Is Opposed to Common Core and Why?
This analysis explores predictors of opposition to Common Core Standards (CCS) using data from a California poll. Opposition was found to be strongly associated with views about President Obama, testing, and negative conceptions about the standards…
Californians and Public Education
Results from the Fourth PACE/USC Rossier Poll
CA is undergoing significant changes in its education system. The Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) has decentralized authority and responsibility, with the Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) focusing on local strategies for improvement.…