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

Lectures presented during the 2010-11 Lecture Series
Date: September 10, 2010 LOCATION: Hembree Room (Room 203), Willard J. Walker Hall Guest Speaker: Glenn Loury, Merton P. Stoltz, Professor of the Social Sciences, Brown University Lecture Title: Simple Economics of Affirmative Action Policy Suggested Readings "An Economic Analysis of Color-Blind Affirmative Action." Roland G. Fryer, Jr. and Glenn C. Loury, with Tolga Yuret "Valuing Identity: The Simple Economics of Affirmative Action Policies." Roland G. Fryer, Jr. and Glenn C. Loury "Affirmative Action and Its Mythology." Roland G. Fryer and Glenn C. Loury Lecture Video	Click Image for Lecture Video
Date: September 17, 2010 Guest Speaker: Julian Betts, Professor and Chair, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego; Bren Fellow, Public Policy Institute of California; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research Lecture Title: Teacher Merit Pay Based on Student Test Scores: A Brilliant Innovation or Near Certain Disaster? Suggested Readings Koedel, Cory and Julian R. Betts (forthcoming) "Does Student Sorting Invalidate Value-Added Models of Teacher Effectiveness? An Extended Analysis of the Rothstein Critique." Education Finance and Policy. Koedel, Cory and Julian R. Betts (2010) "Value-Added to What? How a Ceiling in the Testing Instrument Influences Value-Added Estimation." Education Finance and Policy, (5:1), 54-81. Rothstein, Jesse (2009). "Student Sorting and Bias in Value-Added Estimation: Selection on Observables and Unobservables." Education Finance and Policy, 4(4), 537-571. Rothstein, Jesse (2010, February) "Teacher Quality in Educational Production: Tracking, Decay, and Student Achievement." Quarterly Journal of Economics 125(1), p.p. 175-214. Lecture Video	Click Image for Lecture Video
Date: October 1, 2010 Guest Speaker: Richard Arum, Professor of Sociology and Education, New York University Lecture Title: Learning During Unsettled Times: College Student Academic Performance and Recent Experiences in the U.S. Suggested Readings A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U.S. Higher Education. A report of the Commission Appointed by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (Washington, D.C. 2008). Richard Shavelson, Measuring College Learning Responsibly: Accountability in a New Era. (Stanford University Press, 2009). Ernest Pascarella and Patrick Terenzini. How College Affects Students: A third Decade of Research. (Jossey-Bass; 2005); Chapter 4. Watch Lecture Video Here	Click Image for Lecture Video
Date: October 8, 2010 Guest Speaker: Karthik Muralidharan, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California-San Diego Lecture Title: Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India Suggested Readings Teacher Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from India, Karthik Muralidharan and Venkatesh Sundararaman (2009) Paying for Performance: The Effect of Teachers' Financial Incentives on Students' Scholastic Outcomes, Victor Lavy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2002) Gender Differences in Market Competitiveness in a Real Workplace: Evidence from Performance-Based Pay Tournaments among Teachers, Victor Lavy, NBER Working Paper, 14338 Teacher Incentives, Paul Glewwe et al. (2010) Teacher Pay for Performance: Experimental Evidence from the Project on Incentives in Teaching, Matthew Springer et al. (2010) Lecture Video	Click Image for Lecture Video
Date: October 15, 2010 Guest Speaker: Jason Riley, Member Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Lecture Title: Education Reform and the Media Lecture Video	Click Image for Lecture Video
Date: October 22, 2010 Guest Speaker: Joshua Barnett, Assistant Professor, Education Leadership and Innovation, Arizona State University Lecture Title: Slowly Sinking the Titanic: How Colleges of Education Must Reform to Stay Relevant Suggested Readings: The Sinking State of Public Colleges of Education: Lessons Learned without Lifeboats, by Audrey Amrein-Beardsley and Joshua H. Barnett Educating School Teachers, by Arthur Levine Evaluating the Fundamentals of Teacher Training in Texas, by Julie Greenberg and Kate Walsh Cracks in the Ivory Tower? The Views of Education Professors Circa 2010, by Steve Farkas and Ann Duffett Lecture Video	Click Image for Lecture Video
Date: November 5, 2010 Guest Speaker: Rob Pondiscio, Director of Communications, Core Knowledge Lecture Title: Curriculum: Education Reform's Overlooked Lever Suggested Readings Building Knowledge, by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. How Knowledge Helps, by Daniel T. Willingham Reading Comprehension Requires Knowledge-of Words and the World‎, by E. D. Hirsch, Jr.‎ Learning Essentials, by Kathleen Kennedy Manzo Teaching Content Is Teaching Reading, video featuring Daniel T. Willingham Lecture Video	Click Image for Lecture Video
Date: November 19, 2010 Guest Speaker: Sandy Kress, Partner, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP; Senior Fellow, James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute for Educational Leadership; Fellow and Director of Policy Development and Outreach, The George W. Bush Institute Lecture Title: Touchdown: Ensuring Secondary Credential Attainment of K-12 Students Suggested Readings Early Assessment Program (EAP) Description Postsecondary Preparation and Remediation: Examining the Effect of the Early Assessment Program at California State University, Michal Kurlaender, Catherine Horn, and Jessica Howell Connecting Research about Access to Higher Education to Practice, Learning Point Associates Gaining Ground in the Middle Grades, Michael Kirst, Robert Balfanz, February 2010 Lecture Video	Click Image for Lecture Video
Date: December 3, 2010 Guest Speaker: Mike Puma, President, Chesapeake Research Associates LLC Lecture Title: The National Head Start Impact Study: Results Through the End of 1st Grade Suggested Readings Head Start Impact Study and Follow-up, 2000-2010 No Lecture Video Available
Date: January 21, 2011 - Martin Luther King Jr. Event Guest Speaker: Gerard Robinson, Secretary of Education, Virginia Lecture Title: Martin Luther King, Jr. Event Location: Hembree Room (Room 203), Willard J. Walker Hall Watch Lecture Video Here	Click Image for Lecture Video
Date: January 28, 2011 Guest Speaker: Tom Kimbrell, Arkansas Commissioner of Education Lecture Title: Lessons Learned as Commissioner in First Year Watch Lecture Video Here	Click Image for Lecture Video
Date: February 18, 2011 Guest Speaker: Rev. Tim Scully, Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame; Director, Institute for Education Initiatives; Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Department of Political Science Lecture Title: Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) and Education Reform Suggested Readings Notre Dame Task Force on Catholic Education. Making God Known, Loved, and Served To Nurture the Soul of a Nation: Latino Families, Catholic Schools, and Educational Oportunity.	Click Image for Video
Date: April 1, 2011 Guest Speaker: Maria Marta Ferreyra, Associate Professor of Economics, Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business Lecture Title: Unintended Effects : Markets, Incentives, and School Reform Suggested Readings "An Empirical Framework for Large-Scale Policy Analysis, with an Application to School Finance Reform in Michigan." Maria Marta Ferreyra "School finance reform: Assessing general equilibrium effects." Dennis Epple and Maria Marta Ferreyra "Estimating the Effects of Private School Vouchers in Multidistrict Economies." Maria Marta Ferreyra "Information Asymmetry and Equilibrium Monitoring in Education." Maria Marta Ferreyra and Pierre Jinghong Liang	Click Image for Video
Date: April 8, 2011 Guest Speaker: Rajiv Vinnakota, Co-Founder and Managing Director, SEED Foundation Lecture Title: Planting SEEDs: A Case for the Public Boarding School Model Suggested Readings: Residential Charter Schools: The Road Behind, The Path Ahead, William DeVane Logue Feasibility of a Milwaukee Inner City Boarding School Prepared by The SEED Foundation, Wisconsin Team SEED on 60 Minutes	Click Image for Video
Date: Rescheduled for April 15, 2011 Guest Speaker: Rick Hess, Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research Lecture Title: The Same Thing Over and Over Suggested Readings Frederick M. Hess (November 2010). "Doing the Same Thing Over and Over." American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research (Education Outlook No. 11). Frederick M. Hess (2010). "The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday's Ideas." Harvard University Press.	Click Image for Video
Date: April 29, 2011 Guest Speaker: Susanna Loeb, Professor of Education, Stanford University; Director, Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice (IREPP); Co-Director Policy Analysis for California Education (PACE) Lecture Title: Managing the Recruitment, Development, and Retention of High-quality Teachers	Click Image for Video

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