Claude Steele, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University
Title: Stereotype Threat and Identify Threat: The Science of a
Diverse Community 

Matthew Steinberg, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Title: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Closing Schools on Students’
Academic and Behavioral Outcomes: Evidence from Philadelphia 

Nicole McNeil, Professor of Psychology, University of Notre Dame
Title: Little Things Mean A Lot: Small Variations in the Structure of Input
Affect Children’s Learning and Performance in Mathematics

Lindsey Richland, Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Title: Children’s Mathematical Thinking: Impacts of Cognitive Load
and Pressure to Perform

Chezare Warren, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Title: Urban Preparation: A Critical Race Examination of Young Black Men’s
Journey to and through College

Kristen Renn, Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan
State University
Title: Expanding Definitios of “Success” for LGBTQ College Students

Steven Barnett, Board of Governors Professor and Senior
and Senior Co-Director of the National Institute for Early
Education Research (NIEER), Rutgers University
Title: Producting Large and Sustained Impacts in State-Funded Pre-K
Education; Cross State Comparisons and Long-Term Follow-up in New Jersey

William F. Tate, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and
Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Edward Millinckrodt
Distinguished University Professor in Arts and Sciences,
Washington University in Saint Louis
Title: Gateway to the West: Refashioning the Arc of Opportunity in St. Louis

James Heckman, The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor,
University of Chicago
Title: Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of a Prototypical Early
Childhood Program

Morgan Polikoff, Associate Professor, University of Southern California
Title: Textbook Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence on
Textbook Adoption and Effects

Byeong-Young Cho, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Cognition, Reading, and Critical Learning in Multisource
Digital-Text Environments

Alex Eble, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Title: Stereotypes, Role Models, and The Formation of Beliefs

Daniel Hamlin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Title: Are Charter Schools Safer in Deindustrialized Cities with High
Rates of Crime?  Testing Hypotheses in Detroit

Jonathan Davis, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
Title: The Short and Long Run Impacts of Centralized Clearinghouses:
Evidence from Matching Teach for America Teachers to Schools

IES Presentations