Past Events for 2008
February 2008
February 19
3:30pm - 6:00pm
CERAS 513
Michael Lovenheim
Post Doctoral Scholar
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Topic:
Housing Wealth, Liquidity Constraints, and College Enrollment.
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February 28
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CERAS-513
Dr. Paul Yovanoff
Associate Professor
College of Education, University of Oregon
Topic:
TBD
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April 2008
April 24
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CERAS 513
Dr. Cybele Raver
Associate Professor of Applied Psychology,
School of Education, NYU Steinhardt
Topic:
Placing Children's Self-Regulation in the Context of Classroom-based Intervention
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May 2008
May 01
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CERAS 513
Dr. David Francis
Department Chairman,
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Distinguished Professor, and
Director of the Texas Institute for Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistics
University of Houston
Topic:
Second Generation Accountability for English Language Learners
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May 15
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CERAS, Room 513
Professor Kavita Kapadia
Director, Urban Teacher Program
University of Chicago
Topic:
The Social Organization o Urban Schools, New Teacher Retention, and the Effects of Introduction
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May 22
3:30am - 5:00pm
CERAS 513
Professor Amy Stuart Wells
Professor of Sociology and Education,
Teachers College, Columbia University
Topic:
TBD
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May 29
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CERAS, Room 513
Dr. Thomas K. Landauer
Professor
Department of Psychology, University of Colorado
Topic:
Using computational modeling and simulation of language to create novel educational technologies
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June 2008
June 13
8:00am - 5:00pm
CERAS 513
Ted Mouw
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North-Caolina-Chapel Hill
Topic:
TBD
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October 2008
October 02
3:00pm - 4:30pm
CERAS
Sean Reardon
Associate Professor of Education and , by courtesy, of Sociology, Stanford University
Topic:
High Stakes, No Effects: Effects of Failing the California High School Exit Exam
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October 09
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cubberley Building, Conference room 114
Eric Hanushek
Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and Professor, by courtesy, of Economic
Topic:
Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap
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October 16
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cubberley Building, Conference Room 114
Howard Bloom
Chief Social Scientist, MDRC
Topic:
Some New Empirical Guidance for Designing Cluster-Randomized Studies
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October 23
3:30pm - 5:00pm
CUBBERLEY 114
William Gui Woolston
Graduate Student/Research Associate
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research(SIEPR)
Topic:
Do Great Expectations Matter?
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October 30
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Ceras 513
Eric Bettinger
Associate Professor of Economics, Case Western University
Topic:
TBD
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November 2008
November 06
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cubberley Building, Conference Room 114
Devin Pope
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Topic:
"Understanding Stereotypical Gender Differences in Test Scores"
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November 13
3:30pm - 5:00pm
Cubberley Building, Room 114
Ted Mouw
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Topic:
"Sampling from Hidden Populations: An Empirical Test of Chain-Referral Sampling Methods Using School
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