Schedule for Current Quarter
Autumn Quarter Schedule
Oct 1 – Dec 15, 2018
| Oct 12 | Special Event: Anthony Bryk, President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching Title: Effective Elementary Schools: Lessons in School Improvement from Chicago’s South Side Note: This event takes place Fri, Oct 12, 2018 from 830 am – 1030 am at The University Club of Chicago, Northwestern Room, located at 76 East Monroe Street in downtown Chicago. |
| Oct 16 | Melissa Osborne, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago Title: Jumping the Ladder: How Low-Income and First-Generation Students Navigate Social Mobility Through College |
| Oct 24 | Special Event: Derek Neal, Professor of Economics, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago Note: This event takes place on Wed Oct 24, 2018 at 300 pm in the Social Science Tea Room 201 (second floor) located at 1126 East 59th Street Title: Information, Incentives, and Education Policy, Harvard University Press, May 2018 |
| Oct 30 | Camika Royal, Assistant Professor of Urban Education, Loyola University Maryland Title: You Can’t Get Here from There: Equity Leaders in Need of Liberatory Pedagogies |
| Nov 6 | Fatemeh Momeni, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Chicago Title: Why Are Measures of Early Education Program Too Pessimistic? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment |
| Nov 13 | Shanta Robinson, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago Title: Homeless Youth of Color and the Shaping of Aspirations: The (Re) productive Role of Institutions |
| Nov 27 | Amy Lieberman, Assistant Professor of Deaf Studies, Boston University Title: Learning Language in the Visual World: How Interaction Shapes Early Word Learning in Young Deaf Children |
| Dec 4 |
Student Presentations |
Winter Quarter Schedule
Jan 7 – Mar 23, 2019
| Jan 15 | Michael Dinerstein, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Title: The Effect of Value-Added Incentives on Multidimensional Teacher Output: Evidence from Tenure Reform in New York City |
| Jan 22 | Ramon M. Griffin, PhD, Chief Culture Officer, University of Chicago Charter Schools Title: A Phenomenological Case Study of Four Black males Exposed to Cumulative Trauma that Attended a ‘No Excuses’ Charter School |
| Jan 29 | Student Presentations |
| Feb 5 | Rebecca Hinze-Pifer, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Feb 12 | Sally Sadoff, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego Title: Improving College Instruction through Incentives |
| Feb 19 | Anna Mueller, Assistant Professor, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago |
| Feb 26 | Student Presentations |
| Mar 6 | Special Event Joshua Angrist, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Please Note: This event takes place on Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 300 pm |
| Mar 12 | William Delgado, PhD Candidate, Harris School of Public Policy Title: The Comparative Advantage of Teachers when Teaching Students of Diverse Backgrounds |
Spring Quarter Schedule
Apr 1 – Jun 15, 2019
| Apr 8 | Jens Ludwig, Professor, University of Chicago |
| Apr 16 | Stephanie Deluca, Professor, Johns Hopkins University |
| Apr 23 | Rucker Johnson, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley |
| Apr 30 | Jessaca Spybrook, Professor, Western Michigan University |
| May 7 | Jason Grissom, Associate Professor of Public Policy Education, Peabody College/Vanderbilt University |
| May 14 | Anajli Adukia, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago |
| May 21 | Sarah Komisarow, Assistant Professor, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University |
| May 28 | David Deming, Professor, Harvard University |