Jessica Eve Tuck completes Ph.D. in Urban Education

Aleut Foundation scholarship recipient Jessica Eve Tuck completed her Ph.D. in Urban Education on June 4, 2008. Her dissertation, titled "Gateways and Get-aways: Urban youth, school push-out and the GED," documented how some education policies at the federal, state, and city levels prevent students from completing a high school diploma, and the role of the GED in the lives of youth who don't complete high school. Dr. Tuck has been a long-time scholarship recipient through the Aleut Foundation, and credits that support as vital to her academic success. She earned her Bachelor's Degree from Eugene Lang College, New School University, and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She has accepted a position as assistant professor of educational foundations at the College of Education of the State University of New York, New Paltz. Though she lives and works in New York, Dr. Tuck will continue to strengthen her ties to Alaska, and hopes to do research in the near future with Aleut and Alaskan Native youth who have not completed secondary school. Dr. Tuck is the co-author of one book, titled "Theory and Educational Research: Toward Critical Social Explanation," and is the author of numerous publications on education policy, educational research, and Native theories and methodologies. She is the daughter of Edward and Beverly Tuck and Grand-daughter of John Tuck and Lenore Kohl, and Eugene Meisner and Mary "Melody" "Masura" Melovidov.