EDRE Lecture Series
The University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform is pleased to announce these events as part of our 2020-2021 Lecture Series. All Fall lectures will occur virtually, Spring TBA. Please make sure to RSVP before 1 p.m. on the Wednesday before the scheduled lecture. If you have any questions, please direct them to Emily Coady.
Fall 2020 Lecture Series
September 25, 2020: Carol Ann MacGregor
Vice Provost and Associate Professor of Sociology, Loyola University
Lecture Title: "The Content of Their Character"
Suggested Readings: TBA
October 2, 2020: Deven Carlson
Associate Director for Education, National Institute of Risk and Resilience, University of Oklahoma
Lecture Title: "The Effects of Need-Based Financial Aid on Employment and Earnings: Experimental Evidence from the Fund for Wisconsin Scholars"
Suggested Readings: TBA
October 23, 2020: Takisha Moncrief
Professional Development Partner, One Team
Lecture Title: "Developing a Leader Identity: A Solution to Increasing Teacher Efficacy and Adolescent Literacy Efficacy."
Suggested Readings:
- Key Characteristics of Teacher Leaders in Schools
- Student Teachers Negotiating the Teachers' Professional Identity
November 6, 2019: Michela Carlana
Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Lecture Title: "Apart but Connected: Online Tutoring to Mitigate the Impact of COVID-19 on Educational Inequality"
Suggested Readings: TBA
November 20, 2020: Musa Al-Gharbi
PhD Student in Sociology, Columbia University
Lecture Title: "The Role of Education in America’s Civic Crises"
Suggested Readings:
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“Universities Run on Disposable Scholars.” Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 May 2020.
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“The Crisis of Expertise (and Higher Ed).” Heterodox Academy, 4 April 2020.
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“How Universities Have Been Part of the Problem (And Can Be Part of the Solution) for America’s Civic Crises.” Heterodox Academy, 6 September 2019.
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“Academic and Political Elitism.” Inside Higher Ed, 27 August 2019.
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“For Better or Worse, Universities Help Shape Local, Regional Politics.” Heterodox Academy, 26 July 2019.
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“Viewpoint Diversity Transcends Politics.” Heterodox Academy, 29 April 2019.
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“Actually, Students Seem Substantially Less Free than the General Public.” Heterodox Academy, 19 April 2019.
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“Community and Campus: A Longitudinal Extension.” Heterodox Academy, 4 February 2019.
December 4, 2020: Rita Koganzon
Associate Director of the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy, University of Virginia
Lecture Title: "Hating School: The Liberal Tradition in American Education"
Suggested Readings: TBA
Spring 2021 Lecture Series
January 29, 2021: Bradford Wilcox
Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
Lecture Title: “The Family Diversity Myth: Is it true that love and money matter more than marriage for children’s educational, emotional, and economic well-being?”
Suggested Readings:
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Bradford Wilcox (2014) "Family Matters: What’s the most important factor blocking social mobility? Single parents, suggests a new study." Slate.com.
https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/01/new-harvard-study-where-is-the-land-of-opportunity-finds-single-parents-are-the-key-link-to-economic-opportunity.html
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Bradford Wilcox (2014) "A Key to College Success: Involved Dads." The Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/the-key-to-college-success-involved-dads/361009/
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Bradford Wilcox (2011) "Suffer the Little Children: Cohabitation and the Abuse of America’s Children." Public Discourse: the journal of the Witherspoon Institute.
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/04/3181/
February 5, 2021: Mark Bauerlein
Professor of English at Emory University and Senior Editor at First Things
Lecture Title: "Stop the Screen! An Adversarial Culture for the Classroom"
Suggested Readings:
- American Time Use Survey 2010 Results
- Kaiser Family Foundation (2010) Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-year olds. Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
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Lenhart, A., Ling, R., Campbell, S., & Purcell, K. (2010) Teens and Mobile Phones. Pew Research Center.
- Neilsen.com. (2010). US Teen Mobile Report Calling Yesterday, Texting Today, Using Apps Tomorrow. https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/article/2010/u-s-teen-mobile-report-calling-yesterday-texting-today-using-apps-tomorrow/
- Scholastic (2010). 2010 Kids & Family Reading Report: Turning the Page in the Digital Age. Harrison Group.
- N/A (2012). Trends in Academic Progress Reading 1971–2012 | Mathematics 1973–2012. National Center for Education Statistics.
- N/A (2008). National Freshman Attitudes Report. Noel-Levitz Inc.
- Center for Evaluation & Education Policy. (2006) High School Survey of Student Engagement. Indiana University
- Pryor, J., Hurtado, S., Saenz, V., Korn, J., Santos, J., & Korn, W. (2006). The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 2006. Cooperative Institutional Research Program.
- N/A (2004). Trends in Academic Progress Three Decades of Student Performance in Reading and Mathematics. National Center for Education Statistics.
February 12, 2021: Jennifer Steele
Associate Professor, School of Education, American University
Lecture Title: "Who Benefits from Access to Dual-Language Immersion Education? Evidence from a State Scale-Up in Utah."
Suggested Readings:
- Steele, Jennifer L., Watzinger-Tharp, Johanna, Slater, Robert O., Roberts, Gregg & Bowman, Karl (2021) Achievement Effects of Dual Language Immersion in One-Way and Two-Way Programs: Evidence from a State Scale-Up in Utah. Working Paper.
February 19, 2021: Michael Lovenheim
Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University
Lecture Title: “Do Health Insurance Mandates Spillover to Education? Evidence from Michigan's Autism Insurance Mandate.”
Suggested Readings:
- Acton, Riley, Imberman, Scott & Lovenheim, Michael (2020) Do Health Insurance Mandates Spillover to Education? Evidence from Michigan's Autism Insurance Mandate. Working Paper.
February 26, 2021: Joni Lakin
Associate Professor, University of Alabama Department of Educational Studies.
Lecture Title: "What’s Wrong With Not Testing? Social Costs of Not Identifying Student Talent, the Case of Spatial Talent"
Suggested Readings:
- Wai, J., & Lakin, J.M. (2020). Finding the missing Einsteins: Expanding the breadth of cognitive and noncognitive measures used in academic services. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2020.101920
- Lakin, J.M., & Wai, J. (2020). Spatially gifted, academically inconvenienced: Do spatially talented students experience less academic engagement and more behavioral issues? British Journal of Educational Psychology, 90(4), 1015-1038. http://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12343
- Lakin, J.M. (2016). Universal Screening and the Representation of Historically Underrepresented Minority Students in Gifted Education: Minding the Gaps in Card and Giuliano’s Research [Part of a special issue]. Journal of Advanced Academics, 27(2), 139-149.
March 12, 2021: Brian Gill
Senior Fellow, Mathematica
Lecture Title: “Promotion Power: Measuring High Schools’ Impacts on Outcomes that Matter.”
Suggested Readings:
- Deutsch, J., Johnson, M., & Gill, B. (2020) The Promotion Power Impacts of Louisiana High Schools. Chicago, IL: Mathematica.
- Gill, B., Ruble Whitesell, E., Corcoran S. P., Tilley, C., Finucane, M., & Potamites, L. (2020) Can Charter Schools Boost Civic Participation? The Impact of Democracy Prep Public Schools on Voting Behavior. Cambridge University Press.
April 2, 2021: Meredith Richards
Associate Professor, Department of Education Policy & Leadership, Southern Methodist University
Lecture Title: "Stasis and Change in Public School District Racial/Ethnic Segregation"
Suggested Readings:
- Richards, M.P., Stroub, K.J. (2020) Stasis and Change in Public School District Racial/Ethnic Segregation, 1993-2015. AERA Open. April-June 2020. Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 1-17.
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