Previous Lectures

Fall 2024 Lecture Series

Sept. 6: Lucy Sorensen

Associate Professor, University at Albany, SUNY

Lecture Title: "On the Margin: Who Receives a Juvenile Referral in School and What Effect Does It Have?" 

Suggested Readings:

• Sorensen, Lucy C., Andrea Headley, and Stephen B. Holt. (2024). On the Margin: Who Receives a Juvenile Referral in School and What Effect Does It Have?. (EdWorkingPaper: 24-907). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/k541-d383

Sept. 20: Sarah Cordes

Associate Professor of Policy, Organizational and Leadership Studies, Temple University

Lecture Title: "Do Good Schools Make Public Housing Work? Evidence from New York City."

Suggested Readings:

• Cordes, S., Han, J., & Schwartz, A. (2022, December 21). Housing, Neighborhoods, and Education. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Retrieved 12 Aug. 2024, from https://oxfordre.com/economics/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.001.0001/acrefore-9780190625979-e-840.

Sept. 27: Thomas Dee

Barnett Family Professor, Stanford University

Lecture Title: "Accelerating Opportunity: The Effects of Instructionally Supported Detracking"

Suggested Readings:

• Huffaker, Elizabeth, Sarah Novicoff, and Thomas S. Dee. (2023). Ahead of the Game? Course-Taking Patterns under a Math Pathways Reform. (EdWorkingPaper: 23-734). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/yk56-yy47

Oct. 25: Leigh McLean

Associate Research Professor, University of Delaware

Lecture Title: "A Longitudinal Exploration of Personal, Pragmatic, and School Factors Associated with Beginning Teachers' Burnout in the Transition to Teaching."

Suggested Readings:

• McLean, L., Abry, T., Taylor, M., & Gaias, L. (2019). The influence of adverse classroom and school experiences on first year teachers’ mental health and career optimism. Teaching and Teacher Education, 87(102956). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2019.102956

• McLean, L., Taylor, M., & Jimenez, M. (2019). Career choice motivations in teacher training as predictors of burnout and career optimism in the first year of teaching. Teaching and Teacher Education, 85, 204–214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2019.06.020

• McLean, L., Taylor, M., & Sandilos, L. (2023). The roles of adaptability and school climate in first-year teachers' developing perceptions of themselves, their classroom relationships, and the career. Teaching and Teacher Education, 99(101213). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2023.04.003
• McLean, L., Abry, T., Taylor, M., Jimenez, M., & Granger, K. (2017). Teachers' mental health and perceptions of school climate across the transition from training to teaching. Teaching and Teacher Education, 65, 230-240. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2017.03.018

Spring 2025 Lecture Series

Jan. 24: Jason Grissom

Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy and Education, Vanderbilt University

Lecture Title: "Recruiting and Hiring Educators of Color: Understanding Local Challenges and Strategies."

Suggested Readings:

• Xu, S. H., Santelli, F. A., Grissom, J. A., Bartanen, B., & Patrick, S. K. (2024). (Dis)connection at Work: Racial Isolation, Teachers’ Job Experiences, and Teacher Turnover. American Educational Research Journal, 61(6), 1152-1191. https://doi.org/10.3102/00028312241278597
• Bartanen, B., & Grissom, J. A. (2023). School Principal Race, Teacher Racial Diversity, and Student Achievement. Journal of Human Resources, 58(2), 666-712. https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.58.4.0218-9328R2
• Grissom, J. A., Rubin, M., Neumerski, C. M., Cannata, M., Drake, T. A., Goldring, E., & Schuermann, P. (2017). Central Office Supports for Data-Driven Talent Management Decisions: Evidence From the Implementation of New Systems for Measuring Teacher Effectiveness. Educational Researcher, 46(1), 21-32. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X17694164

Jan. 31: Barbara Biasi

Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University

Lecture Title: "The Political Consequences of Controversial Education Reform: Lessons from Wisconsin's Act 10"

Suggested Readings:

• Biasi, B., & Sandholtz, W. (2024). The Political Consequences of Controversial Education Reform: Lessons from Wisconsin's Act 10. https://www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/1/2/101280322/political_feasibility.pdf

Feb. 7: Jaret Hodges

Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, University of North Texas

Lecture Title: "You Can't Go Lower than Zero"

Suggested Readings:

• N/A

Apr. 4: Ericka Weathers

Assistant Professor, Policy, Organizations, Leadership, and Systems Division, University of Pennsylvania 

Lecture Title: "From the Classroom to the Courtroom: Habitual Truancy and the Legal System"

Suggested Readings:

• Weathers, E. S., Hollett, K. B., Mandel, Z. R., & Rickert, C. (2021). Absence Unexcused: A Systematic Review on Truancy. Peabody Journal of Education, 96(5), 540-564. https://doi.org/10.1080/0161956X.2021.1991696
• Weathers, E.S., Muñoz, I.G., & Loeb, D. (2023). Absence Unexcused: Using Administrative Data to Explore Patterns and Predictors of Habitual Truancy in Pennsylvania. The High School Journal 106(3), 166-190. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/hsj.2023.a930442.

Spring 2023 Lecture Series

Feb. 3: Tracy Gardner

• Chief Assessment Officer, Classic Learning Test
• Lecture Title: "Designing a Standardized Summative Assessment in Support of a Classical Liberal Arts Education"
• Suggested Readings:
• • Downing, S. M., & Haladyna, T. M. (Eds.). (2006). Handbook of Test Development. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers. - (See chapter 1)
  • Emotional Renaissance: What is Classical Education: https://educationalrenaissance.com/classical-education/
• Supplemental Reference:
• • American Educational Research Association, American Psychological Association, & National Council on Measurement in Education (2014). Standards for educational and psychological testing. Washington, DC: American Educational Research Association.

Feb. 10: Gerard Robinson

• Fellow of Practice, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
• Lecture Title: "Parental Choice and the Black Question: A 30 Year Reflection"
• Suggested Readings:
• • Robinson, G. (2004) "Freedom of Choice: Brown, Vouchers, and the Philosophy of Language" (PDF, distributed with publisher's permission) in Educational Freedom in Urban America: Brown v. Board After Half a Century, pp. 13-52 (Cato Institute, 2004)
  • Robinson, G. (2016, August 15). Unpacking the NAACP charter resolution: Part I (opinion). Education Week. Retrieved January 26, 2023
  • Robinson, G. (2016, August 17). Unpacking the NAACP charter resolution: Part II (opinion). Education Week. Retrieved January 26, 2023
  • Robinson, G. (2016, August 19). Unpacking the NAACP charter resolution: Part III (opinion). Education Week. Retrieved January 26, 2023
  • Robinson, G. (2022, July 18). Virginia's scholarship tax credits are an educational beacon of hope. Restoring America. Retrieved January 26, 2023

March 3: Ethan Hutt

• Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Lecture Title: "The Statistical Student: 'Project Talent' and the Origins of US Longitudinal Student Records."
• Suggested Readings:

  • Hutt, E. L. (2017). "Seeing like a State: in the Postwar Era: The Coleman Report, Longitudinal Datasets, and the Measurement of Human Capital. History of Education Quarterly, 57(4), 615-625. https://doi.org/10.1017/heq.2017.36

Mar. 31: Angel Parham

• Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
• Lecture Title: "Classical Education and the Black Intellectual Tradition: Building a Bridge Over Choppy Educational Waters"
• Suggested Readings:
  • Parham, A. A. (2022) Don't Cancel the Classics, Broaden and Diversify Them. The Wall Street Journal.
  • Diener, D., & Parham, A. A. (2021, November 23). Trouble in the Time of Thanksgiving: How Our Fraught History Can Still Be the Source of Unity. Heterodox: The Blog.

April 7: David Uttal

• Professor of Psychology and Education, Northwestern University
• Lecture Title: "An Examination of Different Approaches for Improving Spatial Thinking"
• Suggested Readings:
  • Atit, K., Uttal, D.H. & Stieff, M. Situating space: using a discipline-focused lens to examine spatial thinking skills. Cogn. Research 5, 19 (2020).
  • Uttal, D. H., Miller, D. I., & Newcombe, N. S. (2013). Exploring and Enhancing Spatial Thinking: Links to Achievement in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22(5), 367-373.

April 21: Nicole Garnett

• John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame
• Lecture Title: "Making Private School Choice Work: The Implementation Imperative."
• Suggested Readings: 

  • Garnett, N. S. (2023, March 25). Unlocking the potential of private-school choice: Avoiding and overcoming obstacles to successful implementation. Manhattan Institute. Retrieved April 13, 2023, from https://manhattan.institute/article/unlocking-the-potential-of-private-school-choice-avoiding-and-overcoming-obstacles-to-successful-implementation

  • Garnett, N. S. (2023, March 22). As private-school-choice spreads, implementation is imperative. Education Next. Retrieved April 13, 2023, from https://www.educationnext.org/private-school-choice-spreads-implementation-is-imperative-excessive-eligibility-restrictions-undercut-effectiveness/

Fall 2022 Lecture Series

Sept. 23: Matthew Makel

• Associate Research Scientist, Johns Hopkins School of Education
• Lecture Title: "Increasing Understanding and Action Through Open Scholarship"
• Suggested Readings:
• • Aschwanden, C. (2015). Science isn’t broken. FiveThirtyEight
  • Makel, M. C., Hodges, J., Cook, B. G., & Plucker, J. A. (2021). Both questionable and open research practices are prevalent in education research. Educational Researcher, 50(8), 493-504. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X211001356 open access preprint: https://edarxiv.org/f7srb/

Oct. 7: Roddy Theobald

• Principal Researcher, CALDER Center
• Lecture Title: "Preservice Predictors of Teacher Candidates’ Occupational Choices and Earnings Inside and Outside of Public Schools"
• Suggested Readings:
• • Dan Goldhaber, John Krieg , Roddy Theobald and Stephanie Liddle "Lost to the System? A Descriptive Exploration of Teacher Candidates’ Career Paths" (PDF), Educational Researcher, May 2022
  • Patrick Walsh, "When Unified Teacher Pay Scales Meet Differential Alternative Returns," Education Finance and Policy, July 1, 2014

Oct. 28: Alejandro Ganimian

• Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology & Economics, New York University
• Lecture Title: "Augmenting State Capacity for Child Development: Experimental Evidence from India"
• Suggested Readings:
• • Alejandro Ganimian research archive

Dec. 2: Harry Patrinos

• Adviser, Office of the Chief Economist, World Bank
• Lecture Title: "Learning Loss Due to School Closures During the COVID-19 Pandemic"
• Suggested Readings:
• • Patrinos, H.A., E. Vegas and R. Carter-Rau. 2022. An Analysis of COVID-19 Student Learning Loss. World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 10033
  • Patrinos, H.A., E. Vegas and R. Carter-Rau. 2022. COVID-19 school closures fueled big learning losses, especially for the disadvantaged. World Bank, Let’s Talk Development blog series

Spring 2022 Lecture Series

February 11: Drew Bailey

• Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine
• Lecture Title: "Persistence and Fade-Out of Educational Intervention Effects: Mechanisms and Potential Solutions"
• Suggested Readings:
  • Bailey, D.H., Duncan, G.J., Cunha, F., Foorman, B.R., & Yeager, D.S. (2020) Persistence and Fade-Out of Educational-Intervention Effects: Mechanisms and Potential Solutions. Association for Psychological Science.

February 25: Elaine Allensworth

• Director of the UChicago Consortium on School Research, University of Chicago
• Lecture Title: "Rethinking How to Measure School Quality: The Case of the 5Essentials Surveys"
• Suggested Readings: 
  • Elaine Allensworth, Alicia Chen, Laura Davis, Vanessa Gutiérrez, Holly Hart, Naureen Kheraj, Andria Shyjka, and Christopher Young. (December 2021). Using School Climate Survey Results to Guide Practice. 

April 8: Christina Weiland

• Associate Professor, University of Michigan
• Lecture Title: "Text- Based Mentoring for Postpartum Mothers: Impacts and Lessons from a Mixed Methods Randomized Trial"
• Suggested Readings: TBA

April 15: Dominique Baker

• Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University
• Lecture Title: "The Politics of Community College Districts: A National Overview and Implications for Racial Gerrymandering in Texas"
• Suggested Reading: 
  • Baker, D.J., Edwards, B., Lambert, S.F.X., & Randall, G. (2021). The Politics of Community College Districts: A National Overview and Implications for Racial Gerrymandering in Texas.

April 29: Lindsey Burke

• Director of the Center for Education Policy, The Heritage Foundation
• Lecture Title: "How the structure of K-12 education is changing: implications for funding and accountability."
• Suggested Readings:
  • The Next Step in School Choice - Jason Bedrick & Lindsey Burke
  • The Education Lesson From COVID Lockdowns: School Choice Is Imperative for Every Child - Jonathan Butcher & Lindsey Burke

Fall 2021 Lecture Series

October 1: Constance Lindsey

• Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina
• Lecture Title: "A Scalable Empathic-Mindset Intervention Reduces Group Disparities in School Suspensions"
• Suggested Readings: None

October 8: Jennifer Jolly

• Director of the Gifted Education and Talent Development Office, University of Alabama
• Lecture Title: "Homeschooling & Advanced Learners"
• Suggested Readings:
  • Jennifer L. Jolly & Michael S. Matthews (2017): The Chronicles of Homeschooling Gifted Learners (PDF), Journal of School Choice
  • Jennifer L. Jolly & Michael S. Matthews (2018): The Shifting Landscape of the Homeschooling Continuum (PDF), Educational Review

October 22: Michael Hartney

• Assistant Professor, Boston College
• Lecture Title: "Unmasked: How Covid-19 Revealed Painful Truths about America's Schools"
• Suggested Readings:
  • Finder, Alan. (1986, November 1). New York Hopes to Learn From Rink Trump Fixed. The New York Times.
  • Chubb, John E., & Moe, Terry M. (1990). An institutional perspective on schools. In Politics, Markets, and America's Schools (pp. 26-68). Brookings Institution Press.

October 29: Jennifer Schiess

• Partner, Policy and Evaluation Team, Bellwether Education Partners
• Lecture Title: "Priced Out of Public Schools: Complexity of Challenges and Solutions at the Intersection of Policy, Equity, and Politics"
• Suggested Readings:
  • Alex Spurrier, Sara Hodges, and Jennifer O'Neal Schiess. (October 2021). Priced out of public schools: District lines, housing access, and inequitable educational options.
  • Malcom Glenn. (October 12, 2021). How inequities in housing affect education - and vice versa. Ahead of the Heard.
  • Alia Wong. (October 7, 2021). The communities are side by side. They have wildly different education outcomes - by design. Yahoo News.

November 19: Davíd Martínez

• Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
• Lecture Title: "Equity, Justice, and Participatory Inclusion: Addressing Disparities and Barriers in School Finance"
• Suggested Readings:
  • Martínez, D.G. (2021). Interrogating Social Justice Paradigms in School Finance Research and Litigation. Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education.
  • Martínez, D.G. (2020). Blaming the Victim. Inside Higher Education.

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:
  • 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
  • Bradford Wilcox (2014) "A Key to College Success: Involved Dads." The Atlantic.
  • 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.

  • 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 Reading:
  • 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 Reading:
  • 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 Reading:
  • 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.

Fall 2020 Lecture Series

September 25, 2020: Carol Ann MacGregor

• Vice President Academic & Dean, St. Jerome's 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, 2020: 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

• Ph.D. student in Sociology, Columbia University
• Lecture Title: "The Role of Education in America’s Civic Crises"
• Suggested Readings:
  • Universities Run on Disposable Scholars. Chronicle of Higher Education, 1 May 2020.
  • The Crisis of Expertise (and Higher Ed). Heterodox Academy, 4 April 2020.
  • 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.
  • Academic and Political Elitism. Inside Higher Ed, 27 August 2019.
  • For Better or Worse, Universities Help Shape Local, Regional Politics. Heterodox Academy, 26 July 2019.
  • Viewpoint Diversity Transcends Politics. Heterodox Academy, 29 April 2019.
  • Actually, Students Seem Substantially Less Free than the General Public. Heterodox Academy, 19 April 2019.
  • 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

 

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