School of Education
Courses I Teach
- Dissertation Seminar I
- Dissertation Seminar II--Methodology
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 and Senior Research Fellow with the Baltimore Education Research Consortium (BERC), a research-practice partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools. Her areas of expertise include the transition to postsecondary, Community Schools, immigration and education, and research-practice partnerships. She has published research many peer-reviewed outlets, is past-Secretary and Program Chair for Division H of the American Educational Research Association. Currently, she is co-PI on an IES-funded project investigating career development opportunities in Baltimore City Schools and their impact on postsecondary pathways. She has teaching interests in statistics, quantitative, mixed methods, and education equity and policy.
Selected Publications and Presentations
- Dunn, M., Savick, S., & Durham, R.E. (2025). College access literacy with a FOCUS on key transition knowledge for historically underrepresented students and educators. Journal of College Access, 10(2), 47-80. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/jca/vol10/iss2/5
Plasman, J., Stein, M. L., Durham, R. E., & Smith-Onyewu, Z. (2025). CTE Mechanisms: The Effects of Career and Technical Education Center Admissions Offers in Baltimore. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 47(3), 682-702.
Daniels, A.G., & Durham, R.E. (2025). “How did I pass this and I didn’t know any of it?” Reconsidering social cognitive career theory and the development of mathematical self-efficacy amid structural inequalities. Paper presented at American Society for Engineering Education, Montreal, Canada
Durham, R.E., Falk, M., Daniels A., Reigel, A., Sparks, A., Williams, M., & Yanisko, E. (2024). Encouraging STEM careers among minoritized high school students: The interplay between socio-environmental factors and other social cognitive career constructs. Education Sciences, 14(7), 789-805. doi.org/10.3390/educsci14070789
Baruch, B., & Durham, R. E. (2024). The impact of remote learning on the English acquisition of Delaware K-12 multilingual learners. Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Educational Research Association, Philadelphia, PA.
Durham, R.E., Smith-Onyewu, Z., Cronister, C., Dewey, N.A., & Stein, M.L. (2023). College Access in Baltimore A Decade of College-Going Among City Schools Graduates. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Education Research Consortium. https://baltimore-berc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2023_BERC_CollegeAccessReport.pdf
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
Dupuis, J., & Durham, R.E. (2023). K-12 science achievement: Time-varying influence of Green School initiatives. Environmental Education Research, 30(2), 306-319. doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2023.2253502
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.
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.
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., 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.
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.