The PEPG Education Policy Colloquium Series was initiated in the spring of 2004 to foster an interest in education research within the Harvard community by inviting top scholars from across the country to present their recent research findings in an open discussion with colloquium attendees.

Events are free and open to the public. For those outside of the Harvard community, please RSVP to pepg_administrator@hks.harvard.edu.

For upcoming colloquium speakers and dates, please visit the Events page.

All Colloquium Series Speakers

Thursday, Feb. 22

Making the Most of School Resources as Federal Covid Funding Ends

Karen Hawley Miles, Chief Executive Officer, Education Resource Strategies, Inc.
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Note: due to an error with the Zoom recording, the live video was not able to be captured.

Download the slides from this presentation.

 

Thursday, Feb. 29

Have Urban Charter Schools Lost Their Way?

Steven Wilson, Senior Fellow, Center on Reinventing Public Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, March 7

Towards Effective and Sustainable Tutoring at Scale in the Post-Covid Era

Beth Schueler, Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy, University of Virginia
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, March 21

Trends in Early Elementary Academic Achievement: Educational Realities That Shape American Schools

Aaron Lotton, Vice President, Curriculum Associates
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Download the slides from this presentation.

Curriculum Associates: State of Student Learning in 2023
Curriculum Associates: School Readiness for Young Students Post-Pandemic
Foundational Literacy Skills and Early Reading Success: Summary and whitepaper | Full technical report

 

Thursday, March 28

What's in a Question? Using Item Response Data to Better Represent Learning

Jesse Bruhn, Annenberg Assistant Professor of Education and Economics, Brown University
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

 

Thursday, April 11

Chronic Absenteeism: How America’s Schools Caught Long Covid

Tim Daly, Chief Executive Officer, EdNavigator
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, April 18

Why are Preschool Programs Becoming Less Effective?

Anamarie Whitaker, Assistant Professor of Early Care and Education Policy, University of Delaware
Gutman Library Ground Floor, Gutman Conference Center, Event Space 3, HGSE

 

Thursday, April 25

Federal Pandemic Relief and Academic Recovery

Tom Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, September 14

Accelerating Student Success Through Coherence, Choice, and Technology in an Era of AI Disruption

Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, September 21

State of the American Student 2023

Robin Lake, Director, Center on Reinventing Public Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Download the slides from Lake's presentation

 

Thursday, October 5

The DC Public Schools’ Teachers Union Contract: Breaking Ground Through Collective Bargaining

George Parker, Senior Advisor, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Michelle Rhee, Co-founder, BuildWithin
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, October 12

Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Seattle Supreme Court Case and Its Implications for School Diversity

Joseph Olchefske, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Education; Former Superintendent, Seattle Public Schools
Thiru Vignarajah, Former Deputy Attorney General of Maryland & former Law Clerk to Justice Stephen Breyer
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, October 19

Why Higher Education Remains the Most Important (and Most Intransigent) Influence on K-12 Education Policy

John White, Great Minds; Former State Superintendent, Louisiana
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, November 2

The Future of Charter Schools and Choice: Principles for an Education System without Boundaries

Derrell Bradford, President, 50CAN
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, November 9

Unshackled: Freeing America’s K-12 Education System

Clint Bolick, Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
Darman Conference Room, Taubman 135, HKS

 

Thursday, November 16

The Right to Education under State Constitutions: School Adequacy and Equity Litigation

Rocco Testani, Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland, Atlanta, Georgia
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, November 30

The Nation's Charter Report Card

Paul E. Peterson, Director, Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, February 16

The Fiscal Cliff Coming to a District Near You

Marguerite Roza, Research Professor and Director of the Edunomics Lab, Georgetown University
David Ellwood Democracy Lab, Rubenstein 414-AB, HKS

CommonWealth Magazine: Researcher warns of ‘fiscal cliff’ for US school districts

 

Thursday, March 2

Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York

Parag Pathak, Class of 1922 Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, March 9

How to Make Technical Education Pay

Shaun Dougherty, Professor of Education & Policy, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Download the slides from this presentation

 

Thursday, March 30

Learning to Read: Beyond the Politics

Emily Hanford, Senior Correspondent and Producer, American Public Media
Gutman Library Ground Floor, Gutman Conference Center, Event Space 3, HGSE

Video provided courtesy of American Public Media.

 

Thursday, April 6

The System-Level Effects of Denver’s Portfolio District Strategy on Student Academic Outcomes

Parker Baxter, Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, April 13

Aspirational Federalism: A Policy Pathway for Building 21st Century Infrastructure for Civic Learning

Danielle S. Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University
Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, April 27

Have Achievement Gaps Widened or Narrowed? Reconsidering 30 Years of U.S. Education Reform

Thomas Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard GSE
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, September 15

Partisan Rifts Widen, Perceptions of School Quality Decline: The 2022 Education Next Survey of Public Opinion

Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Harvard University
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, October 6

The Washington DC Teachers Union Contract: Negotiating for Change

George Parker, Senior Advisor, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Michelle Rhee, CEO, 7 Ventures
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, October 20

State Courts in a Federal System: School Equity and Adequacy Lawsuits

Rocco Testani, Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, October 27

The State of the American Student: Recovery and Reinvention After COVID

Robin Lake, Director, Center on Reinventing Public Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, November 3

Heroes, Movies, Assumptions, and Education

Derrell Bradford, President, 50CAN
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS

 

Thursday, November 10

How Florida Has Redefined Public Education

John Kirtley, Founder and Chairman, Step Up For Students
Wexner 434 Conference Room, HKS

 

Thursday, November 17

Future Shock: Student-Based Budgeting in a Post Pandemic World

Joseph Olchefske, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Education
Fainsod Conference Room, Littauer 324, HKS

 

Tuesday, March 15

A Half Century of Progress in US Student Achievement: Agency and Flynn Effects, Ethnic and SES Differences

M. Danish Shakeel, Professor and Director of E. G. West Centre for Education Policy, The University of Buckingham, Buckingham

 

Tuesday, March 29

Who Benefits from Local Financing of Public Schools?

Carlos X. Lastra-Anadón, Assistant Professor, IE School of Global and Public Affairs (Spain)
Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Harvard University

 

Tuesday, April 12

The Effect of Charter Schools on School Segregation

Brian Kisida, Assistant Professor, Truman School of Government & Public Affairs, University of Missouri

 

Tuesday, April 19

Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education

Benjamin W. Arold, PhD Candidate, LMU Munich; Junior Economist, ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

 

Tuesday, April 26

Causal Estimates of the Effect of Teacher-student Race and Ethnicity Matching on Student Achievement in Six US School Districts

Anna Egalite, Associate Professor, College of Education, North Carolina State University

 

Tuesday, May 3

Getting Ahead by Spending More? Local Community Response to State Merit Aid Programs

Rajashri Chakrabarti, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

 

Thursday, September 9

Hunger for Stability Quells Appetite for Change: The 2021 Education Next Survey

Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Harvard University

Results from the 2021 Education Next Survey are  available here

 

Thursday, September 16

Weathering the Storm: Miami-Dade, School Choice, and the Era of Coronavirus

Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools

 

Thursday, October 14

The Problem with Critical Race Theory

Jason Riley, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

Note: Due to technical difficulties, the beginning of this discussion was not recorded.

 

Thursday, October 21

School Accountability: Yesterday, Today, and Perhaps Tomorrow

Chester E. Finn, Jr., Senior Fellow, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

 

Thursday, November 4

Can the Federal Government Play a Productive Role in Education Reform?

James Blew, Co-founder, Defense of Freedom Institute (DFI)

 

Thursday, November 18

The State of the Charter School Sector and What the Future Holds

Nina Rees, President and CEO, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools

 

Thursday, February 4

The Democratic Deficit in U.S. Education Governance

Vladimir Kogan, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University

 

Thursday, February 18

A National Study of Public School Spending and House Prices

Peter Q. Blair, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Download the PDF of this research paper

 

Thursday, March 4

Negative Impacts From the Shift to Online Learning During the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from a Statewide Community College System

Gaby Lohner, Research Specialist, Nudge4 Solutions Lab, University of Virginia

 

Thursday, March 25

The Impact of Neighborhood School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’ Zones of Choice

Christopher Campos, Economic PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley

 

Thursday, April 8

Rent-Seeking through Collective Bargaining: Teachers Unions and Education Production

Jason Cook, Assistant Professor, The David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah

 

Thursday, April 22

The Impact of Increased Exposure to Diversity on Suburban Students' Outcomes: An Analysis of the METCO Voluntary Desegregation Program

Elizabeth Setren, Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University

 

Thursday, September 17

The Way Forward: Improving Teacher Preparation in the U.S.

Kate Walsh, President, National Council on Teacher Quality

 

Thursday, September 24

Can Teachers Unions Be Part of the Solution?

Michelle Rhee, Founder and CEO, StudentsFirst, former Chancellor for District of Columbia Public Schools 
George Parker, Senior Advisor, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, former President, District of Columbia Teachers Union

 

Thursday, October 1

Defending Against Adequacy Lawsuits

Rocco Testani, Attorney, Eversheds-Sutherland

 

Thursday, October 8

Can Big City Schools Be Held Accountable?

Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools

 

Thursday, October 29

Addressing Inequity in Curriculum and Instruction through Teacher Education Reform

Wayne D. Lewis Jr., Dean, Belmont University School of Education, former Commissioner of Education for the Kentucky Department of Education

 

Thursday, November 12

The "Slow Revolution" of Student-Based Budgeting

Joseph Olchefske, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Education, former Superintendent for Seattle Public Schools

 

Thursday, November 19

Implementing Digital Learning

Susan Patrick, President and CEO, Aurora Institute

Slides from this presentation are available here.

 

Monday, NOVEMBER 23

What Next for the U.S. Senate?

Erica Suares, Office of the Senate Majority Leader, U.S. Congress

 

Thursday, DECEMBER 3

Trends in Charter and District School Performance, 2005-2017

M. Danish Shakeel, Harvard University
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University

 

Wednesday, Feb. 5

Shifting Alliances in State Political Parties: The Case of Education Interest Groups

Leslie Finger, Harvard University
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Wednesday, Feb. 19

The Effects of Full-Day Prekindergarten: Experimental Evidence of Impacts on Children and their Families

Allison Atteberry, Colorado University-Boulder School of Education
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Wednesday, Feb. 26

Racial Diversity in the Teacher Pipeline

Melanie Rucinski, Harvard Kennedy School, and Joshua Goodman, Brandeis Univeristy Co-sponsored by the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston Bell Hall, Belfer 500, HKS

Wednesday, March 11

The Effect of Common Core on Student Achievement: Evidence from Two Large Scale Assessments

Benjamin Arold, University of Munich and Dany Shakeel, Harvard Kennedy School
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Wednesday, March 25

The Impact of Increased Exposure to Diversity on Suburban Students' Outcomes: An Analysis of the METCO Voluntary Desegregation Program

Elizabeth Setren, Department of Economics, Tufts University
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Wednesday, April 8

Is Spending on Schools Efficient? A National Study of the Capitalization of School Spending and Local Taxes

Peter Blair, Harvard Graduate School of Education
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Wednesday, April 22

More than dollars for scholars: The impact of the Dell Scholars Program on college access, persistence and degree attainment

Lindsay Page, University of Pittsburgh School of Education
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Thursday, Sept. 12

Results from the 2019 EdNext Poll

Paul Peterson, Harvard University
Nye A Conference Room, Taubman 520, HKS

Thursday, Sept. 19

Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions Throughout Your Life

Michael Horn, Co-Founder and Distinguished Fellow, The Christensen Institute
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, Sept. 26

District Turnaround: Politics & Community Engagement

Paymon Rouhanifard, Co-Founder and CEO of Propel America
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, Oct. 24

Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue: The Next Step

Richard Komer, former Senior Litigation Attorney, Institute for Justice
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Wednesday, Nov. 13

World Class: How to Build a 21st-Century School System

Andreas Schleicher, Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary General, Director for Education and Skills, OECD
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, Nov. 21

How the Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle over School Choice

Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow and VP for External Affairs, The Fordham Institute      
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Friday, Feb. 8

The Effects of Student Growth Data on School District Choice: Evidence From a Survey Experiment

David Houston, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Friday, March 8

The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students

Desmond Ang, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Friday, March 15

School Choice and Consumer Behavior: Crafting Smarter Policies

Steven Glazerman, Mathematica Policy Research
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Friday, March 29

Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics

Sarah Reckhow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Friday, April 12

Down But Not Out! The Resilience of Teachers’ Unions in American Politics

Michael Hartney, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer 4th Floor, HKS

Friday, April 26

The Effect of State Funding for Postsecondary Education on Long-Run Student Outcomes

Rajashri Chakrabarti – Federal Reserve Bank of New York
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, Sept. 20

The Renaissance of Federalism

Clint Bolick, Associate Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, Sept. 27

Results from the 2018 EdNext Poll

Paul Peterson, Harvard University
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, Oct. 18

The Miami Miracle: Innovation and Transformative Leadership in an Urban School District

Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Allison Dining Room, Taubman 520, HKS

Thursday, Oct. 25

Chartering a Path Forward for KIPP: Where Should KIPP Be In the Next Decade?

Richard Barth, KIPP Public Schools
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, Nov. 29

Policy, Politics, and Process: Legislating in the United States Senate

Erica Suares, Office of the Senate Majority Leader, U.S. Congress
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, March 22

Learning Job Skills from Colleagues at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment Using Teacher Performance Data

Eric Taylor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, March 29

Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Tuesday, April 3

Skeptical Democrats? The Long Run Effects of Education for All Policies in India

Emmerich Davies, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Tuesday, April 10

The Performance of Charter Schools on Non-tested Outcomes

Daniel Hamlin, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Program on Education Policy and Governance
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, Sept. 7

Public thinking on school choice, Common Core, higher ed, and more

Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
Martin West, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, Oct. 12

Using Personalized Learning to Design Schools that Motivate

Diane Tavenner, Founder and CEO of Summit Public Schools
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Tuesday, Oct. 31

School Reform in New Mexico

Hanna Skandera, Former Secretary of Education, New Mexico
Taubman 301, HKS

Thursday, Nov. 2

An Education Policy Discussion with Jason Riley

Jason Riley, The Wall Street Journal
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, Nov. 9

Advocating for School Reform

Michelle Rhee, Founder, StudentsFirst
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, Nov. 30

Continuing Change in Newark: An update

Christopher Cerf, State District Superintendent, Newark, New Jersey
Taubman 301, HKS

Tuesday, April 4

The Direct and Indirect Effects of Closing Schools on Students' Educational Opportunities: Evidence from Philadelphia

Matthew P. Steinberg, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Tuesday, April 11

Teacher Accountability Reforms and the Supply of New Teachers

Matthew A. Kraft, Assistant Prof. of Education & Economics, Brown University
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Tuesday, Sept. 13

Ten-Year Trends in Public Opinion from the Ed Next Poll

Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
Martin West, Harvard Graduate School of Education
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Thursday, Sept. 22

Unconventional Measures of Grit

Albert Cheng, Harvard Kennedy School
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

Thursday, Sept. 29

The Future of School Reform

Jeb Bush, former Governor, State of Florida
Land Lecture Hall, Belfer 400, HKS

Tuesday, Oct. 18

Private Schools and Student Achievement

Jane Friesen, Simon Fraser University
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Tuesday, Oct. 25

What Parents Think about Public, Private and Charter Schools: A nationwide survey

Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University, and Samuel Barrows, Harvard Kennedy School
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Tuesday, Nov. 8

Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India

Alejandro Ganimian, Jameel Poverty Action Lab South Asia
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Tuesday, Nov. 15

Can States Take Over and Turn Around Low-Performing School Districts? Evidence on Policy Effects and Political Dynamics from Lawrence, MA

Beth Schueler, Harvard Kennedy School
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS

Thursday, Nov. 17

American Education Policy in 2016

John White, Superintendent of Education, State of Louisiana
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS

March 1, 2016

After Common Core, States Set Rigorous Standards

Thomas Gift, Harvard Kennedy School
Taubman 102, HKS

Read the accompanying Education Next article.
Check out how the states fared with this interactive map.

March 8, 2016

A Third Way? The Politics of School District Takeover and Turnaround in Lawrence Massachusetts

Beth Schueler, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Co-sponsored with The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Taubman 401, HKS

March 29, 2016

Can Successful Schools Replicate? Evidence from Boston's Charter Schools

Sarah Cohodes, Teachers College, Columbia University
Co-sponsored with The Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston and the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Taubman 102, HKS

April 12, 2016

Education for All? Evidence from an Audit Study of Charter Schools

Peter Bergman, Teachers College, Columbia University
Taubman 102, HKS

Sept. 29

Education Next-PEPG 2015 Public Opinion Poll

Michael Henderson: Research Director, Public Policy Research Lab, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
Center for Government and International Studies - S-153

Oct. 13

Performance Information and Retrospective Voting: Evidence from a School Accountability Regime

Sam Barrows: Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University
Center for Government and International Studies - S-050

Nov. 10

Civil Wrongs: Federal equity initiative promotes paperwork, not equality

R. Shep Melnick: Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr., Professor of American Politics, Boston College
Center for Government and International Studies - S-050
Read the accompanying article in Education Next.

Nov. 17

Do Tests Aligned with the Common Core Predict College Success? Predictive Validity of the PARCC and MCAS Exams

Ira Nichols-Barrer: Mathematica Policy Research
Center for Government and International Studies - S-050
Read the accompanying paper.

Dec. 1

Faculty Opinion on Tenure

William G. Howell: Sydney Stein Professor of American Politics, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Susan Mallaney: University of Chicago
Center for Government and International Studies - S-050

Feb. 24

Weak Markets, Strong Teachers: Recessions at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness

Markus Nagler, University of Munich and Martin West, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Center for Government and International Studies - S-050

March 12

Representation in the Classroom: The Effect of Own- Race/Ethnicity Teacher Assignment on Student Achievement

Anna J. Egalite, Harvard Kennedy School
Center for Government and International Studies - S-153

April 23

Validating Components of Teacher Effectiveness: Results from the National Center for Teacher Effectiveness (NCTE) project

Doug Staiger, Dartmouth University
Center for Government and International Studies - Knafel-401