2011 - 2012 Events
Spring 2012
Facutly Speaker Series with Professor Lisa Stulberg
"Beyond Disruption: The Forgotten Origins of
Affirmative Action in College Admissions, 1961-1969"
Monday, March 26, 2012
12:45-1:45 p.m.
Kimball Hall
246 Greene Street
3rd Floor Conference Room
RSVP: http://lisastulberg.eventbrite.com
Lisa Stulberg’s research focuses on the politics of urban schooling, race and education policy, affirmative action in higher education, school choice policy and politics, and LGBT social movements. She is the author of Race, Schools, and Hope: African Americans and School Choice after Brown (Teachers College Press, 2008) and the co-editor (with Eric Rofes) of The Emancipatory Promise of Charter Schools: Toward a Progressive Politics of School Choice (SUNY Press, 2004). She is the co-editor (with Sharon Lawner Weinberg) of Diversity in American Higher Education: Toward a More Comprehensive Approach (Routledge, 2011). She also is working on a book for Polity called LGBT Social Movements.
Fall 2011
Wasserman Career Event
Thursday, October 6, 2011
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Wasserman
Center for Career
Development
133 E. 13th
Street, 2nd Floor, Presentation Room B
This seminar is intended to help equip Education and Social Policy students for your internship or job search. It will highlight key career development tools, resources and services offered through the Wasserman Center. The seminar will be followed by a tour of the career development office. We especially encourage new students to attend this in order to become acquainted with the varied resources available.
Faculty Speaker Series with Professor Richard Arum
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
2:00-3:00 p.m.
Pless Hall
82
Washington Square East
5th Floor Conference Room
Brown Bag Lunch on Education in China
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Kimball Hall
246 Greene Street
3rd Floor Conference Room
Six current EDSP students from different parts of China will talk informally about their experiences and knowledge of education in China. Topics may cover rural-urban disparities, the role of permanent residency system (Hukou) in education, students academic performances and extra-curriculum activities, teacher quality, school choice, higher education admission expansion (Kuozhao), reforms and changes over last three decades, etc.
Program Pizza Dinner and Education Pioneers Presentation
October 26, 2011
7:30-9:00 p.m.
Kimball Hall
246
Greene Street
Room 607W
Join your classmates and the program coordinator for a program pizza dinner. This is a great opportunity for you to check in with the program and share your experiences so far. Marianne Nieman, Program Manager for the NYC Metro Area, will disucss internship opportunities at Education Pioneers.
Faculty Speaker Series with Professor Sean Corcoran
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Kimball Hall
246 Greene Street
3rd floor conference room
Careers in Education Policy
Monday, November 7, 2011
6:45-8:00 p.m.
Kimball Hall
246 Greene Street
1st floor lounge
RSVP:http://edpolicycareers.eventbrite.com
A panel of professionals will discuss various careers in education policy and share stories of how they came to the field.
Panelists:
Barbara Morgan, Deputy Press Secretary at the NYC Department of Education
Danielle Scaramellino, Program Officer, Data Analysis &
Applied Research, New Visions
Sarah Truelsch, Research Analyst, CUNY Office of Institutional Research and
Assessment
New York City Public School Indicators: Demographics, Resources, Outcomes
Thursday, December 1, 2011
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Kimball Hall
246 Greene Street
3rd floor conference room
RSVP: http://iboreport.eventbrite.com
Join us after the presentation for a reception at West
3rd Commons, 1 West 3rd
Street.
EDSP and WEPSA invite you to a discussion of NYC’s First Annual “New York City Public Schools Indicator Report” produced by NYC’s Independent Budget Office (http://www.ibo.nyc.ny.us/iboreports/2011edindicatorsreport.pdf).
Ray Domanico, IBO’s Director of Education Research, will share the history, process and future of this annual report on data mandated to flow from the NYC DOE to IBO after the 2009 NYS legislative renewal of mayoral control of the NYC public schools.
Leanna Stiefel, Professor of Economics and Education Policy, will moderate.
Mr. Domanico joined IBO in August 2010 as Director of Education Research. He has over thirty years of experience in public education policy and practice in New York City and holds a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley.