The Institute for Education and Social Policy

Seminar Series

As part of its mission, the Institute sponsors seminars that bring 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. Previous 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.

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Upcoming Seminars 

In Winter and Spring of 2012, IESP will hold a series of seminars at the Federal Reserve Bank/NYU Education Seminar Series in conjunction with the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Topics and speakers include:

January 19 Frederick Hess (American Enterprise Institute) on school reform efforts and the role of beauracracy

February 2 Jacob Vigdor (Duke University) 

March 8
 Julian Betts (UC San Diego) on high school exit exams

April 12 Sarah Turner (University of Virginia) 

April 26 Justine Hastings (Brown University)

May 16 Ceci Rouse (Princeton University)

June 7 David Mustard (University of Georgia) on non-cognitive skills and gender disparities, interest scores, and teacher assessments 

June 21 Brian Jacob (University of Michigan) 
 
June 16 Joanna Cannon (NYC Department of Education)


For more information or to attend a seminar please contact the seminar management team at research.seminars@ny.frb.org

The Institute for Education Sciences-funded Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Research Training (IES-PIRT) program is an interdisciplinary fellowship program designed to train students of diverse backgrounds to become outstanding researchers in the educational sciences. In addition to funding doctoral students from the six affiliated departments across NYU (Steinhardt/Applied Psychology, Teaching and Learning, Humanities and the Social Sciences, and the Institute for Education and Social Policy; GSAS/Economics and Sociology; and the Wagner School of Public Service) the program includes a proseminar series. The series brings together presentations by both NYU and external experts who will help to introduce, reintroduce, and consolidate students' advanced understanding of the concepts of internal, external, construct, and statistical validity. The Spring 2012 series include:

January 26: John Gruber, MIT
                     
February 16: Rucker Johnson, UC Berkeley
               
February 23: Andrew Ryan, Cornell University
                   
March 1: Avi Ebenstein, Hebrew University

March 22: Martha Feldman, UC Irvine

March 29: Carol Heimer, University of Chicago

April 5: Peter Henry, NYU - Stern                   

April 19: Dana Burde, NYU - Steinhardt
                      
April 26: Jesse Rothstein, UC Berkeley                               

 

Previous Seminars 

In 2011 IESP held a series of seminars at the Federal Reserve Bank/NYU Education Seminar Series in conjunction with the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Topics and speakers included: 

January 20 Cynthia Miller (MDRC) on Opportunity NYC 

March 10
 Anna Maria Lusardi (GWU and Dartmouth) on financial literacy 

April 14
 Raji Chakrabarti (FRBNY) on No Child Left Behind 

May 12
 Amy Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel & Matt Wiswall (NYU) on NYC small schools 

June 2
 Tom Downes (Tufts U) on School Finance and Property Values

June 16
 Jens Ludwig (U Chicago) 

June 30
 Rob Meyer (U Wisconsin-Madison) on value added (as relevant for NYC) 

July 21 Jennifer Bell-Ellwanger (NYCDOE) 

Sep 8  David Deming (Carnegie Mellon) 

Sep 22  Julie Marsh (Rand and U of Southern California)  

Oct 6  Tom Dee (U of Virginia) 

Oct 13  Jennifer Jennings (NYU) 

Oct 27  Eric Bettinger (Stanford U School of Education)  

Nov 17  Derek Neal (Chicago)  

Dec 8 Justine Hastings (Yale)

Dec 15 Dick Murnane (Harvard Graduate School of Education) 

 

In 2007 - 2008, IESP held a series of seminars at the Federal Reserve Bank/NYU Education Seminar Series in conjunction with the New York Federal Reserve Bank. Topics and speakers included: 


"Research in and with High Schools: A working research group for students and faculty", Leslie Siskin, IESP 

"Charter School Choice", Sean Corcoran, New York University 

"Assessing Teacher Effects with Value-Added Models", Jesse Rothstein, Princeton University 

"Denver Teacher Pay Plan", Paul Teske, University of Colorado at Denver 

 "Do Charter Schools Affect Student Performance and Behavior in Non-Charter Schools?" Scott A. Imberman, Department of Economics, University of Houston