SPRING Quarter 2013

Apr 2
Laurence Steinberg, Distinguished University Professor, Laura H. Carnell Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Temple University
The Center for Human Potential and Public Policy and the Committee on Education will co-sponsor this event

Apr 9
Stacy Ehrlich, Senior Research Analyst and Sanja Jagesic, Chicago Consortium on School Research
Title: Absenteeism Among Preschool Students in the Chicago Public Schools? A Study of its Causes and Consequences

Apr 16
Li Cai, Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Hierarchical Item Factor Models with Alternative Latent Variable Distributional Assumptions

Apr 23
Adam Gamoran, Department of Education Policy Studies and Sociology, University of Wisconsin
Title: Causal Effects of Social Capital on Child Outcomes
The Committee on Education and the Department of Comparative Human Development will co-sponsor this event

Apr 30
Parag Pathak, Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Explaining Charter School Effectiveness

May 7
OPEN

May 14
Susan Dynarski, Professor of Education, Public Policy and Economics, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, School of Education and Department of Economics, University of Michigan
Title: Stand and Deliver: Lottery-Based Estimates of the Effect of Charter Schools on College Preparation, Entry and Choice
The Center for Human Potential and Public Policy,  the Committee on Education and the Urban Network will co-sponsor this event.  The event will be held in Harris Room 140C

May 21
Robert J. Beck, Visiting Professor of Education, Lawrence University
Title: Improving 5-year-Old’s Narrative Recall and Comprehension

May 28
Rachel Levenstein, Senior Manager for Survey Research, Chicago Consortium on School Research
Title: Becoming Effective Learners: A Pilot Survey to Examine Noncognitive Factors for Student Learning

Jun 4
Charles Vanover, University of South Florida and Jennifer Jean Smith, University of Michigan
Title: What Does it Mean to Work in a System that Fails You and Your Kids?  A Beginning Teacher’s Journey through the Chicago Public Schools

October 3
Nora Newcomb, Professor of Psychology, Temple University
Title: Space for Thought; Using Spatial Thinking in Education

October 10
Matthew Steinberg, University of Chicago, IES Fellow
Title: Does Greater Automony Improve School Peformance? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Analysis in Chicago

October 17
Rebecca London, Senior Researcher, John W. Gardner Center on Youth Health and Wellness in School and Community, Stanford University  
Title: Connecting Academic Achievement and After School Program Participation with Youth Physical Fitness

October 24
Kyung Park, University of Chicago IES Fellow
Title:  Motivation and Incentives in Education: Evidence from a Summer Reading Experiment

October 31
Daniel Kreisman, University of Chicago IES Fellow
Title: The Effects of the Jeanes and Rosenwald Funds on the Black-White Gap in Education by 1930: Comparing Returns on Investments in Teachers and Schools

November 7
Kirabo Jackson, Assistant Professor, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
Title: The Effects of a Novel Incentive-Based High School Intervention in College Outcomes

November 14
David Figlio, Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University
Title: Accountability and Household Mobility

November 28
Charles Hillman, Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Title: The Relation of Fitness to Brain Health, Cognition, and Scholastic Achievement

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