Dr. Jane Kester-Koppenaal Receives Research Honor

Dr. Jane Kester-Koppenaal was honored Tuesday, July 31, in Columbia at the University of Missouri Reynold's Alumni Center for outstanding research. A 2011 graduate of the University of Missouri Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis doctoral program, Kester-Koppenaal's thesis "The Impact of School Exclusion on Student Achievement" was chosen as a finalist for the Dan H. Cockrell 2011 EdD Dissertation of the Year Award. Finalists were selected through a "blind-read" process by professors outside the education department.