Workshop on Education Lecture Series – Winter 2016

Jan 12 – Ronald Ferguson, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

Title: The Influence of Teaching on Student Agency

Jan 19 – Robert Roeser, Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Portland State University

Jan 26 – Juanna Joensen, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Title: Spillovers in Educational Choice

Feb 2 – Michael Dinerstein, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Feb 9 – Elaine Allensworth, Lewis-Sebring Director, University of Chicago Consortium on Chicago School Research

Feb 16 – Philip Oreopoulus, Professor of Economics, University of Toronto

Feb 23 – Chris Rozek, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago

Mar 1 – Andrea Jenkins, PhD Student, University of Chicago

Mar 8 – Jennifer Delaney, Visiting Associate Professor, University of Chicago (Associate Professor, UIUC)

Workshop on Education Lecture Series – Fall 2015

Tuesdays
1200 noon until 120 pm

Albert Pick Hall, Room 016

Oct 6

Karthik Muralidharan, Associate Professor of Economics, University of California at San Diego

Title: Double for Nothing? Experimental Evidence on the Impact of an Unconditional Teacher Salary Increase on Student Performance in Indonesia

Oct 13 Sebastian Gallegos, PhD Student, Harris SchoolTitle: Rescuing Low Income, High Ability Students
Oct 20 Sara Heller, Assistant Professor, University of PennsylvaniaTitle: The Heterogeneous Effects of Summer Jobs: Evidence from Two Field Experiments
Oct 27 Anna Shusterman, Associate Professor of Psychology, Wesleyan University
Nov
3
Christopher Walters,  Assistant Professor, University of  California at BerkeleyTitle: Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-added: Testing and Estimation
Nov 10 Lauren Sartain, Research Analyst, Consortium on Chicago School Research, Marisa de la Torre, Associate Director for Professional Development, Consortium on Chicago School Research, and Lisa Barrow, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Title: Improving Access to High-Quality Schools for Distadvantaged Youth: Selective High Schools in Chicago
Nov 17 Phillip Oreopoulus, Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Dec 1 Marshall Jean, IES Fellow, Department of Sociology
Title: Tracking and the Development of Learning Behaviors in High Schools

 

Workshop on Education Lecture Series – Fall 2014

Tuesdays
1200 noon until 120 pm
Saieh Hall for Economics, 5757 South University Avenue
Room 021

Fall Quarter 2014

Oct 7
Nancy Jordan, Professor, School of Education, University of Delaware
Title: Developing Number Sense in Children at Risk for Learning Disabilities in Mathematics

Oct 14
Erika Hoff, Professor of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University
Title: Bilingual Environments and Bilingual Development: Studies of Children in South Florida

Oct 21
Jamaal Matthews, Assistant Professor of Education and Developmental Psychology, Montclair State University
Title: The Multiple Faces of Identity: Understanding Adolescent Identity Formation within the Urban Ed Context 

Oct 28
Mark McDaniel, Professor of Psychology, Washington University at St. Louis
Title: Making Learning Stock: Evidence-Based Techniques to Improve Student Learning

Nov 4
Ian Fillmore, Graduate Student and IES Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Chicago
Title: The Effects of Price Discrimination in the College Market

Nov 11
Amy Claessens, Assistant Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago

Nov 18
Brent Hickman, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of Chicago

Dec 2
Jens Ludwig, McCormick Foundation Professor of Social Service Administration, Law, and Public Policy, School of Social Service Administration and Harris School of Public Policy; Director, University of Chicago Crime Lab, and Co-Director, University of Chicago Urban Education Lab.

Dec 9
James Kemple, Professor, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University