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.
People, Process, Politics, and Policy: Behind the Scenes on Federal Education Policymaking
Thursday, Feb. 12
Lindsay Fryer, President & Founding Principal, Lodestone DC
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
The ‘Gerrymandering’ of K-12 Education
Thursday, March 12
Vladimir Kogan, Professor, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University
Responding: Scott Levy, Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard Graduate School of Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Kipp Academies
Thursday, March 26
Shavar Jeffries, CEO, KIPP Foundation
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment
Thursday, April 2
Joshua Goodman, Associate Professor of Education and Economics, Boston University
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Thursday, April 16
TBD
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
The Jagged Frontier of AI in Education: Uneven Gains, Real Risks, and What Comes Next
Thursday, April 23
John Bailey, American Enterprise Institute
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Beyond Recovery: Academic Transformation Through Crisis and Change
Thursday, Sept. 11
Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
The Establishment & Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment
Tuesday, Sept. 30
Clint Bolick, Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
After the Storm: 20 Years of Change and Progress in New Orleans Public Education
Thursday, Oct. 9
Dana Peterson, New Schools for New Orleans
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Do Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth? The effects of additional personnel on student achievement
Thursday, Oct. 16
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Seattle Supreme Court Case and Its Implications for School Diversity
Thursday, Oct. 30
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
Putting Merit Pay into Practice
Thursday, Nov. 13
Michelle Rhee, CEO, 7 Ventures, former Chancellor, Washington D.C. Public Schools
George Parker, Senior Advisor, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Former president, Washington D.C. Teacher’s Union
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
State of the State: K-12 Education in Massachusetts
Thursday, Nov. 20
Pedro Martinez, Massachusetts Commissioner of Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Ethnoracial Matching Between Students and Teachers: What We Know and What’s Next
Thursday, Feb. 13
Anna Egalite, Professor, College of Education at North Carolina State University
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Download the slides from this presentation (PDF).
Catholic Schools and Student Performance: Evidence from Chile
Thursday, Feb. 20
Isabela Munevar, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for International Development, Harvard Kennedy School
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
DOGE and IES: Catastrophe or Opportunity?
Thursday, Feb. 27
Mark Schneider, non-resident senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Tutoring in U.S. Public Schools: What We Know, How We Know It, and What Remains Unknown
Thursday, March 6
Dr. Matthew P. Steinberg, Managing Director of Research and Evaluation, Accelerate
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Download the slides from this presentation (PDF).
Pandemic Recovery
Thursday, March 13
Tom Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Skills and Prosperity: On the Causes and Consequences of Student Achievement
Thursday, March 27
Ludger Woessmann, Professor of Economics, University of Munich, Germany
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Comparative Effects of Early College and Innovation Career Pathways on Educational Attainment
Thursday, April 3
Pierre Lucien, University of Oxford Department of Education; Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Who Chooses and Who Benefits? The Limits of Decentralized School Choice
Thursday, April 17
Chris Campos, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Defending against Adequacy Law Suits
Thursday, Oct. 10
Rocco Testani, Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland, Atlanta, Georgia
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Seattle Supreme Court Case and its Implications for School Diversity
Thursday, Oct. 17
Joseph Olchefske, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Education; Former Superintendent, Seattle Public Schools
Thiru Vignarajah, Former Deputy Attorney General of Maryland
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
NYC Reads and Pathways
Tuesday, Oct. 29
Daniel Weisberg, First Deputy Chancellor, New York City Department of Education
Darman Conference Room, Taubman 135, HKS
Putting Merit Pay into Practice
Tuesday, Nov. 5
Michelle Rhee, CEO, 7 Ventures, former Chancellor, Washington D.C. Public Schools
George Parker, Senior Advisor, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, Former president, Washington D.C. Teacher’s Union
Darman Conference Room, Taubman 135, HKS
The Establishment & Free Exercise Clauses of the First Amendment
Tuesday, Nov. 19
Clint Bolick, Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Lessons for Policymakers from Four Decades of School Reform
Thursday, Nov. 21
Stephen Bowen, Former Commissioner of Education for the State of Maine
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Making the Most of School Resources as Federal Covid Funding Ends
Thursday, Feb. 22
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 (PDF).
Have Urban Charter Schools Lost Their Way?
Thursday, Feb. 29
Steven Wilson, Senior Fellow, Center on Reinventing Public Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Towards Effective and Sustainable Tutoring at Scale in the Post-Covid Era
Thursday, March 7
Beth Schueler, Assistant Professor of Education and Public Policy, University of Virginia
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Trends in Early Elementary Academic Achievement: Educational Realities That Shape American Schools
Thursday, March 21
Aaron Lotton, Vice President, Curriculum Associates
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Download the slides from this presentation (PDF).
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
What's in a Question? Using Item Response Data to Better Represent Learning
Thursday, March 28
Jesse Bruhn, Annenberg Assistant Professor of Education and Economics, Brown University
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Chronic Absenteeism: How America’s Schools Caught Long Covid
Thursday, April 11
Tim Daly, Chief Executive Officer, EdNavigator
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Why are Preschool Programs Becoming Less Effective?
Thursday, April 18
Anamarie Whitaker, Assistant Professor of Early Care and Education Policy, University of Delaware
Gutman Library Ground Floor, Gutman Conference Center, Event Space 3, HGSE
Federal Pandemic Relief and Academic Recovery
Thursday, April 25
Tom Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Accelerating Student Success Through Coherence, Choice, and Technology in an Era of AI Disruption
Thursday, Sept. 14
Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Los Angeles Unified School District
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
State of the American Student 2023
Thursday, Sept. 21
Robin Lake, Director, Center on Reinventing Public Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Download the slides from Lake's presentation (PDF).
The DC Public Schools’ Teachers Union Contract: Breaking Ground Through Collective Bargaining
Thursday, Oct. 5
George Parker, Senior Advisor, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Michelle Rhee, Co-founder, BuildWithin
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Breaking the Promise of Brown: The Seattle Supreme Court Case and Its Implications for School Diversity
Thursday, Oct. 12
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
Why Higher Education Remains the Most Important (and Most Intransigent) Influence on K-12 Education Policy
Thursday, Oct. 19
John White, Great Minds; Former State Superintendent, Louisiana
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
The Future of Charter Schools and Choice: Principles for an Education System without Boundaries
Thursday, Nov. 2
Derrell Bradford, President, 50CAN
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Unshackled: Freeing America’s K-12 Education System
Thursday, Nov. 9
Clint Bolick, Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
Darman Conference Room, Taubman 135, HKS
The Right to Education under State Constitutions: School Adequacy and Equity Litigation
Thursday, Nov. 16
Rocco Testani, Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland, Atlanta, Georgia
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
The Nation's Charter Report Card
Thursday, Nov. 30
Paul E. Peterson, Director, Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
The Fiscal Cliff Coming to a District Near You
Thursday, Feb. 16
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
Still Worth the Trip? School Busing Effects in Boston and New York
Thursday, March 2
Parag Pathak, Class of 1922 Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
How to Make Technical Education Pay
Thursday, March 9
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 (PDF).
Learning to Read: Beyond the Politics
Thursday, March 30
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.
The System-Level Effects of Denver’s Portfolio District Strategy on Student Academic Outcomes
Thursday, April 6
Parker Baxter, Scholar in Residence, University of Colorado Denver School of Public Affairs
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Aspirational Federalism: A Policy Pathway for Building 21st Century Infrastructure for Civic Learning
Thursday, April 13
Danielle S. Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor, Harvard University
Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Have Achievement Gaps Widened or Narrowed? Reconsidering 30 Years of U.S. Education Reform
Thursday, April 27
Thomas Kane, Walter H. Gale Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard GSE
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Partisan Rifts Widen, Perceptions of School Quality Decline: The 2022 Education Next Survey of Public Opinion
Thursday, September 15
Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Harvard University
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
The Washington DC Teachers Union Contract: Negotiating for Change
Thursday, October 6
George Parker, Senior Advisor, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Michelle Rhee, CEO, 7 Ventures
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
State Courts in a Federal System: School Equity and Adequacy Lawsuits
Thursday, October 20
Rocco Testani, Partner, Eversheds-Sutherland
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
The State of the American Student: Recovery and Reinvention After COVID
Thursday, October 27
Robin Lake, Director, Center on Reinventing Public Education
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Heroes, Movies, Assumptions, and Education
Thursday, November 3
Derrell Bradford, President, 50CAN
WAPPP Cason Conference Room, Taubman 102, HKS
How Florida Has Redefined Public Education
Thursday, November 10
John Kirtley, Founder and Chairman, Step Up For Students
Wexner 434 Conference Room, HKS
Future Shock: Student-Based Budgeting in a Post Pandemic World
Thursday, November 17
Joseph Olchefske, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Education
Fainsod Conference Room, Littauer 324, HKS
A Half Century of Progress in US Student Achievement: Agency and Flynn Effects, Ethnic and SES Differences
Tuesday, March 15
M. Danish Shakeel, Professor and Director of E. G. West Centre for Education Policy, The University of Buckingham, Buckingham
Who Benefits from Local Financing of Public Schools?
Tuesday, March 29
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
The Effect of Charter Schools on School Segregation
Tuesday, April 12
Brian Kisida, Assistant Professor, Truman School of Government & Public Affairs, University of Missouri
Evolution vs. Creationism in the Classroom: The Lasting Effects of Science Education
Tuesday, April 19
Benjamin W. Arold, PhD Candidate, LMU Munich; Junior Economist, ifo Institute, Munich, Germany
Causal Estimates of the Effect of Teacher-student Race and Ethnicity Matching on Student Achievement in Six US School Districts
Tuesday, April 26
Anna Egalite, Associate Professor, College of Education, North Carolina State University
Getting Ahead by Spending More? Local Community Response to State Merit Aid Programs
Tuesday, May 3
Rajashri Chakrabarti, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Hunger for Stability Quells Appetite for Change: The 2021 Education Next Survey
Thursday, September 9
Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Harvard University
Results from the 2021 Education Next Survey are available here
Weathering the Storm: Miami-Dade, School Choice, and the Era of Coronavirus
Thursday, September 16
Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
The Problem with Critical Race Theory
Thursday, October 14
Jason Riley, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal
Note: Due to technical difficulties, the beginning of this discussion was not recorded.
School Accountability: Yesterday, Today, and Perhaps Tomorrow
Thursday, October 21
Chester E. Finn, Jr., Senior Fellow, Thomas B. Fordham Institute
Can the Federal Government Play a Productive Role in Education Reform?
Thursday, November 4
James Blew, Co-founder, Defense of Freedom Institute (DFI)
The State of the Charter School Sector and What the Future Holds
Thursday, November 18
Nina Rees, President and CEO, National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
The Democratic Deficit in U.S. Education Governance
Thursday, February 4
Vladimir Kogan, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University
A National Study of Public School Spending and House Prices
Thursday, February 18
Peter Q. Blair, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Download the PDF of this research paper
Negative Impacts From the Shift to Online Learning During the COVID-19 Crisis: Evidence from a Statewide Community College System
Thursday, March 4
Gaby Lohner, Research Specialist, Nudge4 Solutions Lab, University of Virginia
The Impact of Neighborhood School Choice: Evidence from Los Angeles’ Zones of Choice
Thursday, March 25
Christopher Campos, Economic PhD Candidate, University of California, Berkeley
Rent-Seeking through Collective Bargaining: Teachers Unions and Education Production
Thursday, April 8
Jason Cook, Assistant Professor, The David Eccles School of Business, University of Utah
The Impact of Increased Exposure to Diversity on Suburban Students' Outcomes: An Analysis of the METCO Voluntary Desegregation Program
Thursday, April 22
Elizabeth Setren, Assistant Professor of Economics, Tufts University
The Way Forward: Improving Teacher Preparation in the U.S.
Thursday, September 17
Kate Walsh, President, National Council on Teacher Quality
Can Teachers Unions Be Part of the Solution?
Thursday, September 24
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
Defending Against Adequacy Lawsuits
Thursday, Oct. 1
Rocco Testani, Attorney, Eversheds-Sutherland
Can Big City Schools Be Held Accountable?
Thursday, Oct. 8
Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Addressing Inequity in Curriculum and Instruction through Teacher Education Reform
Thursday, Oct. 29
Wayne D. Lewis Jr., Dean, Belmont University School of Education, former Commissioner of Education for the Kentucky Department of Education
The "Slow Revolution" of Student-Based Budgeting
Thursday, Nov. 12
Joseph Olchefske, Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Education, former Superintendent for Seattle Public Schools
Implementing Digital Learning
Thursday, Nov. 19
Susan Patrick, President and CEO, Aurora Institute
Slides from this presentation are available here.
What Next for the U.S. Senate?
Monday, Nov. 23
Erica Suares, Office of the Senate Majority Leader, U.S. Congress
Trends in Charter and District School Performance, 2005-2017
Thursday, Dec. 3
M. Danish Shakeel, Harvard University
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
Shifting Alliances in State Political Parties: The Case of Education Interest Groups
Wednesday, Feb. 5
Leslie Finger, Harvard University
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS
The Effects of Full-Day Prekindergarten: Experimental Evidence of Impacts on Children and their Families
Wednesday, Feb. 19
Allison Atteberry, Colorado University-Boulder School of Education
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Racial Diversity in the Teacher Pipeline
Wednesday, Feb. 26
Melanie Rucinski, Harvard Kennedy School, and Joshua Goodman, Brandeis Univeristy Co-sponsored by the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston Bell Hall, Belfer 500, HKS
The Effect of Common Core on Student Achievement: Evidence from Two Large Scale Assessments
Wednesday, March 11
Benjamin Arold, University of Munich and Dany Shakeel, Harvard Kennedy School
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS
The Impact of Increased Exposure to Diversity on Suburban Students' Outcomes: An Analysis of the METCO Voluntary Desegregation Program
Wednesday, March 25
Elizabeth Setren, Department of Economics, Tufts University
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Is Spending on Schools Efficient? A National Study of the Capitalization of School Spending and Local Taxes
Wednesday, April 8
Peter Blair, Harvard Graduate School of Education
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS
More than dollars for scholars: The impact of the Dell Scholars Program on college access, persistence and degree attainment
Wednesday, April 22
Lindsay Page, University of Pittsburgh School of Education
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Results from the 2019 EdNext Poll
Thursday, Sept. 12
Paul Peterson, Harvard University
Nye A Conference Room, Taubman 520, HKS
Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions Throughout Your Life
Thursday, Sept. 19
Michael Horn, Co-Founder and Distinguished Fellow, The Christensen Institute
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
District Turnaround: Politics & Community Engagement
Thursday, Sept. 26
Paymon Rouhanifard, Co-Founder and CEO of Propel America
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue: The Next Step
Thursday, Oct. 24
Richard Komer, former Senior Litigation Attorney, Institute for Justice
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
World Class: How to Build a 21st-Century School System
Wednesday, Nov. 13
Andreas Schleicher, Special Advisor on Education Policy to the Secretary General, Director for Education and Skills, OECD
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
How the Other Half Learns: Equality, Excellence, and the Battle over School Choice
Thursday, Nov. 21
Robert Pondiscio, Senior Fellow and VP for External Affairs, The Fordham Institute
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
The Effects of Student Growth Data on School District Choice: Evidence From a Survey Experiment
Friday, Feb. 8
David Houston, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
The Effects of Police Violence on Inner-City Students
Friday, March 8
Desmond Ang, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
School Choice and Consumer Behavior: Crafting Smarter Policies
Friday, March 15
Steven Glazerman, Mathematica Policy Research
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics
Friday, March 29
Sarah Reckhow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
Down But Not Out! The Resilience of Teachers’ Unions in American Politics
Friday, April 12
Michael Hartney, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Malkin Penthouse, Littauer 4th Floor, HKS
The Effect of State Funding for Postsecondary Education on Long-Run Student Outcomes
Friday, April 26
Rajashri Chakrabarti – Federal Reserve Bank of New York
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
The Renaissance of Federalism
Thursday, Sept. 20
Clint Bolick, Associate Justice, Arizona Supreme Court
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
Results from the 2018 EdNext Poll
Thursday, Sept. 27
Paul Peterson, Harvard University
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
The Miami Miracle: Innovation and Transformative Leadership in an Urban School District
Thursday, Oct. 18
Alberto Carvalho, Superintendent, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
Allison Dining Room, Taubman 520, HKS
Chartering a Path Forward for KIPP: Where Should KIPP Be In the Next Decade?
Thursday, Oct. 25
Richard Barth, KIPP Public Schools
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
Policy, Politics, and Process: Legislating in the United States Senate
Thursday, Nov. 29
Erica Suares, Office of the Senate Majority Leader, U.S. Congress
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
Learning Job Skills from Colleagues at Work: Evidence from a Field Experiment Using Teacher Performance Data
Thursday, March 22
Eric Taylor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
Delivering Education to the Underserved through a Public-Private Partnership Program in Pakistan
Thursday, March 29
Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
Skeptical Democrats? The Long Run Effects of Education for All Policies in India
Tuesday, April 3
Emmerich Davies, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
The Performance of Charter Schools on Non-tested Outcomes
Tuesday, April 10
Daniel Hamlin, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Program on Education Policy and Governance
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
Public thinking on school choice, Common Core, higher ed, and more
Thursday, Sept. 7
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
Martin West, Harvard Graduate School of Education
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
Using Personalized Learning to Design Schools that Motivate
Thursday, Oct. 12
Diane Tavenner, Founder and CEO of Summit Public Schools
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
School Reform in New Mexico
Tuesday, Oct. 31
Hanna Skandera, Former Secretary of Education, New Mexico
Taubman 301, HKS
An Education Policy Discussion with Jason Riley
Thursday, Nov. 2
Jason Riley, The Wall Street Journal
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
Advocating for School Reform
Thursday, Nov. 9
Michelle Rhee, Founder, StudentsFirst
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
Continuing Change in Newark: An update
Thursday, Nov. 30
Christopher Cerf, State District Superintendent, Newark, New Jersey
Taubman 301, HKS
The Direct and Indirect Effects of Closing Schools on Students' Educational Opportunities: Evidence from Philadelphia
Tuesday, April 4
Matthew P. Steinberg, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Teacher Accountability Reforms and the Supply of New Teachers
Tuesday, April 11
Matthew A. Kraft, Assistant Prof. of Education & Economics, Brown University
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Ten-Year Trends in Public Opinion from the Ed Next Poll
Tuesday, Sept. 13
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University
Martin West, Harvard Graduate School of Education
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Unconventional Measures of Grit
Thursday, Sept. 22
Albert Cheng, Harvard Kennedy School
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
The Future of School Reform
Thursday, Sept. 29
Jeb Bush, former Governor, State of Florida
Land Lecture Hall, Belfer 400, HKS
Private Schools and Student Achievement
Tuesday, Oct. 18
Jane Friesen, Simon Fraser University
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS
What Parents Think about Public, Private and Charter Schools: A nationwide survey
Tuesday, Oct. 25
Paul E. Peterson, Harvard University, and Samuel Barrows, Harvard Kennedy School
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Disrupting Education? Experimental Evidence on Technology-Aided Instruction in India
Tuesday, Nov. 8
Alejandro Ganimian, Jameel Poverty Action Lab South Asia
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS
Can States Take Over and Turn Around Low-Performing School Districts? Evidence on Policy Effects and Political Dynamics from Lawrence, MA
Tuesday, Nov. 15
Beth Schueler, Harvard Kennedy School
WAPPP Cason Seminar Room, Taubman 102, HKS
American Education Policy in 2016
Thursday, Nov. 17
John White, Superintendent of Education, State of Louisiana
CPL Darman Seminar Room, Taubman 135, HKS
After Common Core, States Set Rigorous Standards
Thursday, Nov. 17
Thomas Gift, Harvard Kennedy School
Taubman 102, HKS
Read the accompanying Education Next article.
Check out how the states fared with this interactive map.
A Third Way? The Politics of School District Takeover and Turnaround in Lawrence Massachusetts
March 8, 2016
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
Can Successful Schools Replicate? Evidence from Boston's Charter Schools
March 29, 2016
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
Education for All? Evidence from an Audit Study of Charter Schools
April 12, 2016
Peter Bergman, Teachers College, Columbia University
Taubman 102, HKS
Education Next-PEPG 2015 Public Opinion Poll
Sept. 29
Michael Henderson: Research Director, Public Policy Research Lab, Manship School of Mass Communication, Louisiana State University
Center for Government and International Studies - S-153
Performance Information and Retrospective Voting: Evidence from a School Accountability Regime
Oct. 13
Sam Barrows: Program on Education Policy and Governance, Harvard University
Center for Government and International Studies - S-050
Civil Wrongs: Federal equity initiative promotes paperwork, not equality
Nov. 10
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.
Do Tests Aligned with the Common Core Predict College Success? Predictive Validity of the PARCC and MCAS Exams
Nov. 17
Ira Nichols-Barrer: Mathematica Policy Research
Center for Government and International Studies - S-050
Read the accompanying paper.
Faculty Opinion on Tenure
Dec. 1
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
Weak Markets, Strong Teachers: Recessions at Career Start and Teacher Effectiveness
Feb. 24
Markus Nagler, University of Munich and Martin West, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Center for Government and International Studies - S-050
Representation in the Classroom: The Effect of Own- Race/Ethnicity Teacher Assignment on Student Achievement
March 12
Anna J. Egalite, Harvard Kennedy School
Center for Government and International Studies - S-153
Validating Components of Teacher Effectiveness: Results from the National Center for Teacher Effectiveness (NCTE) project
April 23
Doug Staiger, Dartmouth University
Center for Government and International Studies - Knafel-401