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faculty:

jay p. greene
department head,
endowed chair
in education reform


robert m. costrell
endowed chair
in accountability



reed greenwood
professor



robert maranto
endowed chair
in leadership



gary w. ritter
endowed chair
in education policy



sandra stotsky
endowed chair
in teacher quality



patrick j. wolf
endowed chair
in school choice


Department of Education Reform Lecture Series

Past Lectures



Date: Friday, April 27, 2007
Guest Speaker: Stuart Buck, the Law Firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans, & Figel
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Location: Graduate Education Building Room 113

No Picture Available

Date: Friday, April 13, 2007
Guest Speaker: Tom Stewart, Fight for Children
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Location: Graduate Education Building Room 113

Tom Stewart

Date: Friday, March 30, 2007
Guest Speaker: Elena Llaudet, Harvard University
Time: 12 p.m.
Location: Graduate Education Building Room 113
Elena Llaudet

Date: Friday, March 9, 2007
Guest Speaker: Greg Forster, The Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation
Time: 12 p.m.
Location: Graduate Education Building Auditorium Foyer

Greg Forster, Ph.D.

Date: Friday, February 22, 2007
Guest Speaker: Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
Location: University of Arkansas, Graduate Education Building Auditorium (1st floor)

Sen. Blanche Lincoln


Date: Friday, February 9, 2007
Guest Speaker: The Honorable Joyce Elliott, former Education Committee Chair, Arkansas General Assembly

The Hon. Joyce Elliott


Date: Friday, January 26, 2007
Guest Speaker: David Ferrero, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
David Ferrero's Presentation: From Conflict to Comity (PDF)

David Ferrero

Date: Friday, January 19, 2007
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Alan Bersin, Former California Secretary of Education
Lecture Title: "Charter Schools, Competition and the Clock: The Race to Save Public Education"
Location: University of Arkansas, Graduate Education Building Auditorium Foyer (1st Floor)

Alan Bersin

2006 Lecture Series Archive

Date: Friday, November 3, 2006
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Sandra Stotsky, Senior Associate Commissioner, Massachusetts Department of Education, 1999-2003, and Visiting Research Scholar, Northeastern University, 2004-2006
Lecture Title: "The K-12 Literature Curriculum, the Gender Gap, and the Decline in Reading: What research suggests for Arkansas and the nation"
Location: University of Arkansas, Graduate Education Building Auditorium Foyer (1st floor)

Sandra Stotsky

Date: Friday, October 27, 2006
Time: 12:00 p.m.
Guest Speaker: Cheri Yecke, Florida K-12 Chancellor of Education
Lecture Title: "The United States in the 21st Century: Education will Determine our Destiny"
Location: University of Arkansas, Graduate Education Building Auditorium Foyer (1st floor)

No Picture Available
 

Past Lectures



Other Seminars of Interest


Sam M. Walton College of Business Department of Economics


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