The University of Chicago
Council on Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Workshop on Education

In the spring term, the Workshop on Education will meet on Tuesdays from 3:30-5:00pm in the Hinds Laboratory for Geophysical Sciences, Room 101 (Lecture Hall). The Hinds building is located just north of the university bookstore at 5734 S. Ellis Avenue. We hope you can join us throughout the spring quarter.

Please contact Chloe Hutchinson, workshop coordinator, at chloeh@uchicago.edu with any questions or to be added to the workshop's email distribution list.

2008 Spring Workshop Schedule:

    April 1, 2008
    Jora Stixrud
    Department of Economics, University of Chicago
    Title: "Teacher Quality from 1960 until Today"

    April 8, 2008
    Sally Sadoff
    Department of Economics, University of Chicago
    Title: "Designing Experiments to Test the Impact of Incentives on Attendance and Achievement"

    April 15, 2008
    Stephen Raudenbush
    Lewis-Sebring Distinguished Service Professor in Sociology and Chair of the Committee on Education, University of Chicago
    and
    Marshall Jean
    Statistician, Consortium on Chicago School Research
    Title: "Estimating the Impact of School-Level Student Mobility on Math Achievement"

    April 22, 2008
    Micere Keels
    Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
    Title: "The Lack of Collateral Benefits from Reducing Low-Income Children’s Exposure to Neighborhood Poverty via Residential Relocation: Getting inside the Black Box of MTO’s Null Effects on Academic Achievement"

    April 29, 2008
    Tyler VanderWeele
    Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Studies, University of Chicago
    Title: "Direct and Indirect Effects for Clustered and Longitudinal Data"

    May 6, 2008
    Guanglei Hong
    Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development and Applied Psychology, University of Toronto
    Title: "Reading Instruction Time and Homogeneous Grouping in Kindergarten: An Application of Marginal Mean Weighting Through Stratification"

    May 13, 2008
    Camille Charles
    Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
    Title: "Black Like Who? Exploring the Racial, Ethnic and Class Diversity of Black Students at Selective Colleges and Universities"
    **This presentation is jointly sponsored by the Workshop on Education and the Social Theory and Evidence Workshop**

    May 20, 2008
    Michael Woolley
    Assistant Professor in the School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
    Title: TBA

    May 27, 2008
    Ginger Stoker
    School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
    Title: TBA

    June 3, 2008
    OPEN


The Workshop on Education alternates between two types of sessions:

  1. Methodology and
  2. New Findings in Education

The Methodology sessions focus on methodological problem solving and works in progress for individuals seeking guidance on methodological problems. The New Findings in Education section functions as a typical University of Chicago workshop with detailed discussions regarding student and faculty papers. Open discussion is encouraged after each workshop.

For additional information on the Workshop on Education lecture series please contact Chloe Hutchinson, Workshop Coordinator, at chloeh@uchicago.edu. Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Stephen Raudenbush are Faculty Representatives.

Information about research in education at the University of Chicago can be accessed through the Committee on Education website.

 

 

Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please notify Chloe Hutchinson, workshop coordinator, at chloeh@uchicago.edu.