A call for community-based approaches to reducing the barriers that prevent regular attendance in K-12 schools
Sarah Winchell Lenhoff is the Leonard Kaplan Endowed Professor and associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Wayne State University. She is the director of the Detroit Partnership for Education Equity & Research (Detroit PEER). She began her career as a middle school teacher in New York City Public Schools and was previously the director of research and policy at the Education Trust-Midwest. Her research focuses on how education and other social policies shape access to educational opportunity. Jeremy Singer is a research assistant professor in educational leadership and policy studies at Wayne State University and the associate director of the Detroit Partnership for Education Equity & Research (Detroit PEER). He formerly taught in the Detroit Public Schools. His research focuses broadly on the intersections of educational policy and racial and socioeconomic inequality.
