Past Events for 2009
January 2009
January 15
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cubberley 114
Bridget Long
Associate Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard University
Topic:
The Impact of Postsecondary Remediation: How Can We Serve the Needs of Underprepared Students?
Read more
January 22
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cubberley 114
Daniel McCaffrey
Senior Statistician, Rand Corporation
Topic:
TBD
Read more
January 29
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CU 114
Daniel McFarland
Associate Professor of Education, Stanford University
Topic:
"Adolescent Societies - Their Form, Evolution, and Variation"
Read more
February 2009
February 12
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CU 114
Julie Cullen
Associate Professor of Economics, UC San Diego
Topic:
“Jockeying for Position: High School Student Mobility and Texas’ Top-Ten Percent Rule”
Read more
February 19
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CU 114
Pamela Morris
Co-Director, MDRC
Topic:
“Designing a National Place-Based Trial to Inform Science and Policy: Head Start CARES”
Read more
February 26
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CU 114
Robert Pianta
Dean, Novartis Professor of Education & Director,
University of Virginia
Topic:
“ Improving Impacts of Classrooms: Professional Development and Classroom Observation”
Read more
March 2009
March 12
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CU 114
Susanna Loeb
Associate Professor of Education and, by courtesy, in the Graduate School of Business.
Director, Institute for Research on Education Policy & Practice
Topic:
“Separating Supply from Demand: Uncovering the Relationships Among Teacher Quality, School Character
Read more
April 2009
April 23
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CU 114
Caroline Hoxby
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Topic:
The Governance and Performance of Research Universities: Evidence from Europe and the U.S.
Read more
April 30
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CU 114
Michal Kurlaender
Assistant Professor of Education
UC Davis
Topic:
Postsecondary Preparation and Remediation: Examining the Effect of the Early Assessment Program at C
Read more
May 2009
May 14
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CU 114
Dr. Wim J. van der Linden
Chief Research Scientist
CTB/McGraw-Hill
Topic:
Conceptual Issues in Response-Time Modeling
Read more
May 21
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CU 114
Cynthia Coburn
Assistant Professor of Education ,
U.C. Berkeley
Topic:
The rise and fall of teachers’ social networks: Investigating the relationship between district.....
Read more
May 28
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CU 114
Maria Fitzptrick
Searle Freedom Trust Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University
Topic:
“An Analysis of The Federal Teacher Loan Forgiveness Program”
Read more
October 2009
October 12
8:00am - 5:00pm
Cubberley 114
Margaret Raymond
Research Fellow
Hoover Institute, Stanford University
Topic:
TBD
Read more
October 12
8:00am - 5:00pm
Cubberley 114
Margaret Raymond
Research Fellow
Hoover Institute, Stanford University
Topic:
TBD
Read more
October 15
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cubberley Building, Conference Room 114
Dale Ballou
Associate Professor
Vanderbilt
Topic:
"Are Magnet School Effects Really Peer Effects?"
Read more
October 29
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cubberley 114
Gregory Walton
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Stanford University
Topic:
Latent Ability: Grades and Test Scores Systematically Underestimate the True Ability of Women and..
Read more
November 2009
November 12
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cubberley 114
Geoff Cohen
Professor of Education and Psychology
Stanford University
Topic:
"A Social Identity Account of Under-Performance"
Read more
November 19
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cubberley 114
Dr. Macke Raymond
Research Fellow
Hoover Institute, Stanford University
Topic:
The Impact of Charter Schools on Student Performance: New Questions, New Answers
Read more