Martha Franco

Martha C. Franco is an education researcher whose work focuses on the educational experiences of Central American unaccompanied youth. She is a doctoral student in education at Harvard University, where her scholarship examines how these young people navigate schooling and broader institutional contexts.

Franco is a co‑author of Everyone Wins! The Evidence for Family-School Partnerships and Implications for Practice, published by Scholastic Professional in 2022, alongside Karen L. Mapp, Anne T. Henderson, Stephany Cuevas, and Suzanna Ewert. The book presents an in‑depth, research-based examination of family-school partnerships, synthesizing more than 50 years of research on family and community engagement and its impact on students, families, educators, and school systems.