The PEPG Education Policy Colloquium Series was initiated in the spring of 2004 to foster an interest in education research within the Harvard community by inviting top scholars from across the country to present their recent research findings in an open discussion with colloquium attendees.
Events are free and open to the public. For those outside of the Harvard community, please RSVP to pepg_administrator@hks.harvard.edu.
For upcoming colloquium speakers and dates, please visit the Events page.
Thursday, February 13
Ethnoracial Matching Between Students and Teachers: What We Know and What’s Next
Anna Egalite, Professor, College of Education at North Carolina State University
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
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Thursday, February 20
Catholic Schools and Student Performance: Evidence from Chile
Isabela Munevar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, February 27
DOGE and IES: Catastrophe or Opportunity?
Mark Schneider, non-resident senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, March 6
Tutoring in U.S. Public Schools: What We Know, How We Know It, and What Remains Unknown
Dr. Matthew P. Steinberg, Managing Director of Research and Evaluation, Accelerate
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
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Thursday, March 13
Pandemic Recovery
Tom Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, March 27
Skills and Prosperity: On the Causes and Consequences of Student Achievement
Ludger Woessmann, Professor of Economics, University of Munich, Germany
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, April 3
Comparative Effects of Early College and Innovation Career Pathways on Educational Attainment
Pierre Lucien, University of Oxford Department of Education; Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, April 17
Who Chooses and Who Benefits? The Limits of Decentralized School Choice
Chris Campos, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Oct. 10
Defending against Adequacy Law Suits
Rocco Testani, Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland, Atlanta, Georgia
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Oct. 17
Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Seattle Supreme Court Case and its Implications for School Diversity
Joseph Olchefske, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Education; Former Superintendent, Seattle Public Schools
Thiru Vignarajah, Former Deputy Attorney General of Maryland
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, Oct. 29
NYC Reads and Pathways
Daniel Weisberg, First Deputy Chancellor, New York City Department of Education
Darman Conference Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, Nov. 5
Putting Merit Pay into Practice
Michelle Rhee, CEO, 7 Ventures, former Chancellor, Washington D.C. Public Schools
George Parker, Senior Advisor, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Former president, Washington D.C. Teacher’s Union
Darman Conference Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, Nov. 19
The Establishment & Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment
Clint Bolick, Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Nov. 21
Lessons for Policymakers from Four Decades of School Reform
Stephen Bowen, Former Commissioner of Education for the State of Maine
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Feb. 22
Making the Most of School Resources as Federal Covid Funding Ends
Karen Hawley Miles, Chief Executive Officer, Education Resource Strategies, Inc.
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Note: due to an error with the Zoom recording, the live video was not able to be captured.
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Thursday, Feb. 29
Have Urban Charter Schools Lost Their Way?
Steven Wilson, Senior Fellow, Center on Reinventing Public Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, March 7
Towards Effective and Sustainable Tutoring at Scale in the Post-Covid Era
Beth Schueler, Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy, University of Virginia
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, March 21
Trends in Early Elementary Academic Achievement: Educational Realities That Shape American Schools
Aaron Lotton, Vice President, Curriculum Associates
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
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Thursday, March 28
What's in a Question? Using Item Response Data to Better Represent Learning
Jesse Bruhn, Annenberg Assistant Professor of Education and Economics, Brown University
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, April 11
Chronic Absenteeism: How America’s Schools Caught Long Covid
Tim Daly, Chief Executive Officer, EdNavigator
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, April 18
Why are Preschool Programs Becoming Less Effective?
Anamarie Whitaker, Assistant Professor of Early Care and Education Policy, University of Delaware
Gutman Library Ground Floor, Gutman Conference Center, Event Space 3, HGSE
Thursday, April 25
Federal Pandemic Relief and Academic Recovery
Tom Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, September 14
Accelerating Student Success Through Coherence, Choice, and Technology in an Era of AI Disruption
Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, September 21
State of the American Student 2023
Robin Lake, Director, Center on Reinventing Public Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
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Thursday, October 5
The DC Public Schools’ Teachers Union Contract: Breaking Ground Through Collective Bargaining
George Parker, Senior Advisor, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Michelle Rhee, Co-founder, BuildWithin
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, October 12
Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Seattle Supreme Court Case and Its Implications for School Diversity
Joseph Olchefske, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Education; Former Superintendent, Seattle Public Schools
Thiru Vignarajah, Former Deputy Attorney General of Maryland & former Law Clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, October 19
Why Higher Education Remains the Most Important (and Most Intransigent) Influence on K-12 Education Policy
John White, Great Minds; Former State Superintendent, Louisiana
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, November 2
The Future of Charter Schools and Choice: Principles for an Education System without Boundaries
Derrell Bradford, President, 50CAN
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, November 9
Unshackled: Freeing America’s K-12 Education System
Clint Bolick, Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
Darman Conference Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, November 16
The Right to Education under State Constitutions: School Adequacy and Equity Litigation
Rocco Testani, Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland, Atlanta, Georgia
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, November 30
The Nation's Charter Report Card
Paul E. Peterson, Director, Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, February 16
The Fiscal Cliff Coming to a District Near You
Marguerite Roza, Research Professor and Director of the Edunomics Lab, Georgetown University
David Ellwood Democracy Lab, Rubenstein 414-AB, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, March 2
Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York
Parag Pathak, Class of 1922 Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, March 9
How to Make Technical Education Pay
Shaun Dougherty, Professor of Education & Policy, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
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Thursday, March 30
Learning to Read: Beyond the Politics
Emily Hanford, Senior Correspondent and Producer, American Public Media
Gutman Library Ground Floor, Gutman Conference Center, Event Space 3, HGSE
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Thursday, April 6
The System-Level Effects of Denver’s Portfolio District Strategy on Student Academic Outcomes
Parker Baxter, Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, April 13
Aspirational Federalism: A Policy Pathway for Building 21st Century Infrastructure for Civic Learning
Danielle S. Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University
Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, April 27
Have Achievement Gaps Widened or Narrowed? Reconsidering 30 Years of U.S. Education Reform
Thomas Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard GSE
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, September 15
Partisan Rifts Widen, Perceptions of School Quality Decline: The 2022 Education Next Survey of Public Opinion
Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Harvard University
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, October 6
The Washington DC Teachers Union Contract: Negotiating for Change
George Parker, Senior Advisor, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Michelle Rhee, CEO, 7 Ventures
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, October 20
State Courts in a Federal System: School Equity and Adequacy Lawsuits
Rocco Testani, Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, October 27
The State of the American Student: Recovery and Reinvention After COVID
Robin Lake, Director, Center on Reinventing Public Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, November 3
Heroes, Movies, Assumptions, and Education
Derrell Bradford, President, 50CAN
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, November 10
How Florida Has Redefined Public Education
John Kirtley, Founder and Chairman, Step Up For Students
Wexner 434 Conference Room, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, November 17
Future Shock: Student-Based Budgeting in a Post Pandemic World
Joseph Olchefske, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Education
Fainsod Conference Room, Littauer 324, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, March 15
A Half Century of Progress in US Student Achievement: Agency and Flynn Effects, Ethnic and SES Differences
M. Danish Shakeel, Professor and Director of E. G. West Centre for Education Policy, The University of Buckingham, Buckingham
Tuesday, March 29
Who Benefits from Local Financing of Public Schools?
Carlos X. Lastra-Anadón, Assistant Professor, IE School of Global and Public Affairs (Spain)
Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Harvard University
Tuesday, April 12
The Effect of Charter Schools on School Segregation
Brian Kisida, Assistant Professor, Truman School of Government & Public Affairs, University of Missouri
Tuesday, April 19
Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education
Benjamin W. Arold, PhD Candidate, LMU Munich; Junior Economist, ifo Institute, Munich, Germany
Tuesday, April 26
Causal Estimates of the Effect of Teacher-student Race and Ethnicity Matching on Student Achievement in Six US School Districts
Anna Egalite, Associate Professor, College of Education, North Carolina State University
Tuesday, May 3
Getting Ahead by Spending More? Local Community Response to State Merit Aid Programs
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Thursday, September 9
Hunger for Stability Quells Appetite for Change: The 2021 Education Next Survey
Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Harvard University
Thursday, September 16
Weathering the Storm: Miami-Dade, School Choice, and the Era of Coronavirus
Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Thursday, October 14
The Problem with Critical Race Theory
Jason Riley, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
Note: Due to technical difficulties, the beginning of this discussion was not recorded.
Thursday, October 21
School Accountability: Yesterday, Today, and Perhaps Tomorrow
Chester E. Finn, Jr., Senior Fellow, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Thursday, November 4
Can the Federal Government Play a Productive Role in Education Reform?
James Blew, Co-founder, Defense of Freedom Institute (DFI)
Thursday, November 18
The State of the Charter School Sector and What the Future Holds
Nina Rees, President and CEO, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Thursday, February 4
The Democratic Deficit in U.S. Education Governance
Vladimir Kogan, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University
Thursday, February 18
A National Study of Public School Spending and House Prices
Peter Q. Blair, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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Thursday, March 4
Negative Impacts From the Shift to Online Learning During the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from a Statewide Community College System
Gaby Lohner, Research Specialist, Nudge4 Solutions Lab, University of Virginia
Thursday, March 25
The Impact of Neighborhood School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’ Zones of Choice
Christopher Campos, Economic PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Thursday, April 8
Rent-Seeking through Collective Bargaining: Teachers Unions and Education Production
Jason Cook, Assistant Professor, The David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah
Thursday, April 22
The Impact of Increased Exposure to Diversity on Suburban Students' Outcomes: An Analysis of the METCO Voluntary Desegregation Program
Elizabeth Setren, Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
Thursday, September 17
The Way Forward: Improving Teacher Preparation in the U.S.
Kate Walsh, President, National Council on Teacher Quality
Thursday, September 24
Can Teachers Unions Be Part of the Solution?
Michelle Rhee, Founder and CEO, StudentsFirst, former Chancellor for District of Columbia Public Schools
George Parker, Senior Advisor, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, former President, District of Columbia Teachers Union
Thursday, October 1
Defending Against Adequacy Lawsuits
Rocco Testani, Attorney, Eversheds-Sutherland
Thursday, October 8
Can Big City Schools Be Held Accountable?
Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Thursday, October 29
Addressing Inequity in Curriculum and Instruction through Teacher Education Reform
Wayne D. Lewis Jr., Dean, Belmont University School of Education, former Commissioner of Education for the Kentucky Department of Education
Thursday, November 12
The "Slow Revolution" of Student-Based Budgeting
Joseph Olchefske, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Education, former Superintendent for Seattle Public Schools
Thursday, November 19
Implementing Digital Learning
Susan Patrick, President and CEO, Aurora Institute
Slides from this presentation are available here.
Monday, NOVEMBER 23
What Next for the U.S. Senate?
Erica Suares, Office of the Senate Majority Leader, U.S. Congress
Thursday, DECEMBER 3
Trends in Charter and District School Performance, 2005-2017
M. Danish Shakeel, Harvard University
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
Wednesday, Feb. 5
Shifting Alliances in State Political Parties: The Case of Education Interest Groups
Leslie Finger, Harvard University
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Wednesday, Feb. 19
The Effects of Full-Day Prekindergarten: Experimental Evidence of Impacts on Children and their Families
Allison Atteberry, Colorado University-Boulder School of Education
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Wednesday, Feb. 26
Racial Diversity in the Teacher Pipeline
Melanie Rucinski, Harvard Kennedy School, and Joshua Goodman, Brandeis Univeristy Co-sponsored by the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston Bell Hall, Belfer 500, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Wednesday, March 11
The Effect of Common Core on Student Achievement: Evidence from Two Large Scale Assessments
Benjamin Arold, University of Munich and Dany Shakeel, Harvard Kennedy School
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Wednesday, March 25
The Impact of Increased Exposure to Diversity on Suburban Students' Outcomes: An Analysis of the METCO Voluntary Desegregation Program
Elizabeth Setren, Department of Economics, Tufts University
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Wednesday, April 8
Is Spending on Schools Efficient? A National Study of the Capitalization of School Spending and Local Taxes
Peter Blair, Harvard Graduate School of Education
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Wednesday, April 22
More than dollars for scholars: The impact of the Dell Scholars Program on college access, persistence and degree attainment
Lindsay Page, University of Pittsburgh School of Education
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Sept. 12
Results from the 2019 EdNext Poll
Paul Peterson, Harvard University
Nye A Conference Room, Taubman 520, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Sept. 19
Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions Throughout Your Life
Michael Horn, Co-Founder and Distinguished Fellow, The Christensen Institute
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Sept. 26
District Turnaround: Politics & Community Engagement
Paymon Rouhanifard, Co-Founder and CEO of Propel America
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Oct. 24
Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue: The Next Step
Richard Komer, former Senior Litigation Attorney, Institute for Justice
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Wednesday, Nov. 13
World Class: How to Build a 21st-Century School System
Andreas Schleicher, Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary General, Director for Education and Skills, OECD
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Nov. 21
How the Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle over School Choice
Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow and VP for External Affairs, The Fordham Institute
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Friday, Feb. 8
The Effects of Student Growth Data on School District Choice: Evidence From a Survey Experiment
David Houston, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Friday, March 8
The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students
Desmond Ang, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Friday, March 15
School Choice and Consumer Behavior: Crafting Smarter Policies
Steven Glazerman, Mathematica Policy Research
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Friday, March 29
Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics
Sarah Reckhow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Friday, April 12
Down But Not Out! The Resilience of Teachers’ Unions in American Politics
Michael Hartney, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer 4th Floor, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Friday, April 26
The Effect of State Funding for Postsecondary Education on Long-Run Student Outcomes
Rajashri Chakrabarti – Federal Reserve Bank of New York
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Sept. 20
The Renaissance of Federalism
Clint Bolick, Associate Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Sept. 27
Results from the 2018 EdNext Poll
Paul Peterson, Harvard University
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Oct. 18
The Miami Miracle: Innovation and Transformative Leadership in an Urban School District
Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Allison Dining Room, Taubman 520, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Oct. 25
Chartering a Path Forward for KIPP: Where Should KIPP Be In the Next Decade?
Richard Barth, KIPP Public Schools
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Nov. 29
Policy, Politics, and Process: Legislating in the United States Senate
Erica Suares, Office of the Senate Majority Leader, U.S. Congress
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, March 22
Learning Job Skills from Colleagues at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment Using Teacher Performance Data
Eric Taylor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, March 29
Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan
Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, April 3
Skeptical Democrats? The Long Run Effects of Education for All Policies in India
Emmerich Davies, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, April 10
The Performance of Charter Schools on Non-tested Outcomes
Daniel Hamlin, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Program on Education Policy and Governance
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Sept. 7
Public thinking on school choice, Common Core, higher ed, and more
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
Martin West, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Oct. 12
Using Personalized Learning to Design Schools that Motivate
Diane Tavenner, Founder and CEO of Summit Public Schools
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, Oct. 31
School Reform in New Mexico
Hanna Skandera, Former Secretary of Education, New Mexico
Taubman 301, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Nov. 2
An Education Policy Discussion with Jason Riley
Jason Riley, The Wall Street Journal
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Nov. 9
Advocating for School Reform
Michelle Rhee, Founder, StudentsFirst
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Nov. 30
Continuing Change in Newark: An update
Christopher Cerf, State District Superintendent, Newark, New Jersey
Taubman 301, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, April 4
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Closing Schools on Students' Educational Opportunities: Evidence from Philadelphia
Matthew P. Steinberg, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, April 11
Teacher Accountability Reforms and the Supply of New Teachers
Matthew A. Kraft, Assistant Prof. of Education & Economics, Brown University
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, Sept. 13
Ten-Year Trends in Public Opinion from the Ed Next Poll
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
Martin West, Harvard Graduate School of Education
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Sept. 22
Unconventional Measures of Grit
Albert Cheng, Harvard Kennedy School
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Sept. 29
The Future of School Reform
Jeb Bush, former Governor, State of Florida
Land Lecture Hall, Belfer 400, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, Oct. 18
Private Schools and Student Achievement
Jane Friesen, Simon Fraser University
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, Oct. 25
What Parents Think about Public, Private and Charter Schools: A nationwide survey
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University, and Samuel Barrows, Harvard Kennedy School
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, Nov. 8
Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India
Alejandro Ganimian, Jameel Poverty Action Lab South Asia
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Tuesday, Nov. 15
Can States Take Over and Turn Around Low-Performing School Districts? Evidence on Policy Effects and Political Dynamics from Lawrence, MA
Beth Schueler, Harvard Kennedy School
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Thursday, Nov. 17
American Education Policy in 2016
John White, Superintendent of Education, State of Louisiana
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
March 1, 2016
After Common Core, States Set Rigorous Standards
Thomas Gift, Harvard Kennedy School
Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
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March 8, 2016
A Third Way? The Politics of School District Takeover and Turnaround in Lawrence Massachusetts
Beth Schueler, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Co-sponsored with The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the
Taubman 401, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
March 29, 2016
Can Successful Schools Replicate? Evidence from Boston's Charter Schools
Sarah Cohodes, Teachers College, Columbia University
Co-sponsored with The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the
Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
April 12, 2016
Education for All? Evidence from an Audit Study of Charter Schools
Peter Bergman, Teachers College, Columbia University
Taubman 102, ÌÇÐÄvlog¹ÙÍø
Sept. 29
Education Next-PEPG 2015 Public Opinion Poll
Michael Henderson: Research Director, Public Policy Research Lab, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
Center for Government and International Studies - S-153
Oct. 13
Performance Information and Retrospective Voting: Evidence from a School Accountability Regime
Sam Barrows: Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University
Center for Government and International Studies - S-050
Nov. 10
Civil Wrongs: Federal equity initiative promotes paperwork, not equality
R. Shep Melnick: Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Professor of American Politics, Boston College
Center for Government and International Studies - S-050
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Nov. 17
Do Tests Aligned with the Common Core Predict College Success? Predictive Validity of the PARCC and MCAS Exams
Ira Nichols-Barrer: Mathematica Policy Research
Center for Government and International Studies - S-050
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Dec. 1
Faculty Opinion on Tenure
William G. Howell: Sydney Stein Professor of American Politics, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Susan Mallaney: University of Chicago
Center for Government and International Studies - S-050
Feb. 24
Weak Markets, Strong Teachers: Recessions at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness
Markus Nagler, University of Munich and Martin West, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Center for Government and International Studies - S-050
March 12
Representation in the Classroom: The Effect of Own- Race/Ethnicity Teacher Assignment on Student Achievement
Anna J. Egalite, Harvard Kennedy School
Center for Government and International Studies - S-153
April 23
Validating Components of Teacher Effectiveness: Results from the National Center for Teacher Effectiveness (NCTE) project
Doug Staiger, Dartmouth University
Center for Government and International Studies - Knafel-401