Podcasts

Education Policy Breakfasts

Update: The Education Policy Breakfasts will be resuming in the Fall of 2009.  Stay tuned to this website or subscribe to our podcast in iTunes for new episodes.

2008-2009 Series: Closing the Achievement Gap: Facing Challenges From Outside the Classroom

The 2008-2009 education policy breakfast series stimulates a conversation between researchers, policymakers, and practitioners about recent advances in our understanding of out-of-classroom influences in shaping the academic achievement gap.

Episode 3: Promising Practices

Students bring with them myriad challenges as they enter the classroom. In this session, three master practitioners serving vulnerable student populations discuss their innovative and promising models of practice.

Featuring Claire E. Sylvan, Internationals Network for Public Schools; Glynda Hull, Digital Underground Storytelling for Youth; Mary Walsh, Boston Connects








Episode 2: The Crisis of Vulnerable Populations

Our nation faces an enduring achievement gap. Too many black, Latino, immigrant origin, poor, and male students among others are vulnerable to threats to their academic well being. The speakers today will address the complex challenges facing these students and will make recommendations to better meet their educational needs.

Featuring Pedro Noguera and Carola Suarez-Orozco.






Episode 1: Framing the Issue

Students bring with them myriad challenges as they enter the classroom. What does research tell us about these challenges? How do these realities frame children’s learning experiences and opportunities? What specific efforts and policy should be implemented to address these contributions to the achievement gap?

Featuring Michael Rebell, Professor of Law and Educational Practice and Executive Director of the Campaign for Educational Equity at Teachers College, and Clancy Blair, Professor of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt, with moderator Carola Suarez-Orozco, Professor of Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt.

2007-2008 Series: Gender and Education: Implications for Policy and Practice

Episode 3: Gender, Schooling, and New York City

What has been the experience of those who are experimenting with schools for specific populations? How have practitioners applied the research on the needs of boys and girls in school and with what results? This session presents some of the strategies that New York City schools have implemented in response to the research on gender, particularly as it intersects with other aspects of students' lives, like race, ethnicity, class, parental status, and sexual orientation.

Featuring Kevin Jennings, founder and executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network; John King, managing director of the Excellence and Preparatory Networks of Uncommon Schools; Lisa M. Stulberg, assistant professor of educational sociology at NYU Steinhardt; Ann Rubenstein Tisch, the founder and creator of the Young Women's Leadership Schools

Episode 2: The Potential and Future of Public Single Sex Schools?

The role of single sex schools is controversial. Do single sex schools provide academic advantages or no advantages to students? This talk will review the existing empirical evidence on single sex schooling, and provide theoretical rationales for the value of single sex schools, especially in the public sector among at risk youth.

Featuring Cornelius Riordan, Professor of Sociology, Providence College and Emily J.Martin, Deputy Director, American Civil Liberties Union, Women's Rights Project

Episode 1: Do Gender Differences in Academic Achievement Really Exist?

The role of gender in academic achievement is hotly contested. Are psychological gender differences large and widespread or small and diminishing? This talk will discuss evidence for the gender similarities hypothesis and consider the implications of contemporary findings.

Featuring Marcia C. Linn Professor of Development and Cognition Graduate School of Education University of California, Berkeley and Joshua Aronson Associate Professor of Applied Psychology, NYU Steinhardt