Fall 2007

Friday, October 5, 2007
Research Partnership for NYC Schools Conference
CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall

"Why Do some Schools Get More and Others Less? An Examination of School-Level Funding in New York City"
Ross Rubenstein, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Leanna Stiefel

Friday, October 19, 2007, 9am-1pm
The Education Finance Research Consortium and The New York State Board of Regents
Three Reports on the Condition of New York Schools--Public Forum
The State Museum Theater, Albany, NY

"Student Mobility Among New York City Elementary and Middle School Students: Types of Mobility and Relationships to Performance"
Amy Ellen Schwartz and Leanna Stiefel

October 22-23, 2007, 8am-3pm
"Issues in Education for School Age Children on the Autism Spectrum"
AHA 17th Annual Fall Conference
Eastern Suffolk BOCES, Holbrook, NY

Tuesday, 10/23
"How the New York City Public School System
is responding to the needs of higher functioning children on the autism spectrum"
Dorothy Siegel

November 10 , 2007, 8:45am
"What Else Shapes Public Policy Analysis and Management?"
29th Annual APPAM Research Conference
Washington Marriott Hotel and Embassy Suites Hotel, Washington, DC

"Who's Failing Whom? Recent Immigrants and Urban High Schools"
Leanna Stiefel, Amy Ellen Schwartz, and Dylan Conger (GWU)

November 14 , 2007
Citywide Council on High Schools

"Immigrants, Race and the High School Graduation Gap"
Amy Ellen Schwartz

November 20, 2007, 10am
Southern Economic Association - 77th Annual Meetings
New Orleans Marriott Hotel, New Orleans, LA

"Who Supports School Choice: An Empirical Analysis of the Washington Charter School Referenda"
Sean P. Corcoran and Christiana Stoddard (Montana)
Thomas A. Husted, Discussant

November 28, 2007, 9:45am-12pm
Center for New York City Affairs
Milano, The New School for Management and Urban Policy, New York, NY

"From the Margins to the Mainstream: A Developmental Disabilities Watch Forum"
Dorothy Siegel, Speaker

December 6, 2007, 5:00pm
The Steinhardt Institute for Higher Education Policy
Rudin Forum, Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street, 2nd Floor

Critical forum on Mitchell Stevens'
"Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites"

Respondents: Dalton Conley, University Professor of the Social Sciences, NYU; Mitchell Duneier, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University; Judith Stacey, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Sociology, NYU Moderator: Richard Arum, Professor of Sociology, NYU

December 19, 2007
District 2 Community Education Council
333 7th Ave, 7th Floor Conference Room

"Weighted Student Funding and NYC"
Amy Ellen Schwartz