The Institute sponsors seminars at NYU and with other organizations such as the Federal Reserve Bank/NYU Education Seminar Series.

Seminars at NYU

January 22, 2008, Tuesday, 5-7pm
Leslie Siskin, IESP
"Research in and with High Schools: A working research group for students and faculty"
@ IESP Conference Room, 82 Washington Square East, 7th Floor
Please contact leslie.siskin@nyu.edu if you are interested in participating.

April 18, 2008, Friday, 12-1:30pm
Scott A. Imberman, Department of Economics, University of Houston
Title: "Do Charter Schools Affect Student Performance and Behavior in Non-Charter Schools?"
@ IESP Conference Room, 82 Washington Square East, 7th Floor

Federal Reserve Bank/NYU Education Seminar Series

The New York Federal Reserve Bank and New York University’s Institute for Education and Social Policy sponsor an education workshop/seminar series on Tuesdays from 4-5:30pm that brings together practitioners, policymakers, and researchers to discuss current ideas, concerns, and findings relating to educational policies and practices that are relevant to New York City and the region.

In each seminar, an author or policymaker presents an idea or finding, followed by a broader discussion among seminar participants. Presenters include local as well as national scholars and practitioners. Topics addressed include funding of schools in large districts, teacher merit pay plans, choice in schooling (including charter schools), accountability in education, and alternative teacher training programs.

The organizers of the seminar are Wilbert van der Klaauw and Rajashri Chakrabarti, economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and Leanna Stiefel, Associate Director of New York University’s Institute for Education and Social Policy and Professor, the Wagner School, and Robert Tobias, of NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

The seminar is by invitation only and all participants must be signed up at least two weeks before the seminar. Please contact Leanna Stiefel at leanna.stiefel@nyu.edu for more information.

February 5
Sean Corcoran, New York University
"Charter School Choice"
@ Federal Reserve Bank

February 26
Jesse Rothstein, Princeton University
"Assessing Teacher Effects with Value-Added Models"
@ Federal Reserve Bank 

March 4
Paul Teske, University of Colorado at Denver
"Denver Teacher Pay Plan"
@ Federal Reserve Bank

April 1
Paul Peterson, Harvard University
@ Federal Reserve Bank

April 22
Howard Bloom, MDRC
@ Federal Reserve Bank