Below, we include a list of upcoming events (co-)sponsored by the Education Policy Group, its affiliated faculty or centers and labs or other groups focused on education policy at NYU or New York more broadly.
Co-sponsored Talks
Real-Time Research for Decision Making Across Our Decentralized US Education System: The Case of High-Impact Tutoring
Susanna Loeb, Professor, Stanford University (Co-sponsored talk with IES- PIRT)
September 16th, 2024
Kimball Hall Lobby
12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
RSVP for Real-Time Research for Decision Making Across Our Decentralized US Education System
We are co-sponsoring a talk with Susanna Loeb with NYU's Institute of Education Sciences-funded Predoctoral Interdisciplinary research Training (IES-PIRT).
Pandemic-induced reductions in learning and school engagement, combined with substantial federal funding, led US schools and school districts to develop a range of new programs for students, many of which were tutoring programs. Policy makers, in response, aimed to create conditions that would enable educators to design and implement these programs successfully. In this dynamic environment, a broad range of stakeholders needed to make decisions impacting students’ educational experiences. They looked for guidance from other states, districts and schools with prior tutoring experiences. While the research evidence on tutoring summarizing and analyzing these experiences was unusually strong, it almost exclusively focused on in-person tutoring with pre-pandemic technologies and instructional contexts. It also only lightly touched on the key issues of design and implementation. This fast-turnaround research project has aimed over the past four years to provide the range of decision makers with insights into effectiveness and implementation of tutoring programs to help them make real-time decisions, accelerate learning, and address the substantial inequities in access to quality educational experiences between demographic groups. In partnership with districts across the country, the project has produced insights about tutoring, while also highlighting both the advantages and disadvantages of conducting research during transition times to inform decisions across contexts. The project provides a model for considering the connections among decision makers and policy influencers looking to invest in and promote promising solutions, education leaders who are willing to try new things, refine, and learn, and researchers working quickly and in partnership to evaluate and provide insights.
Tolani Britton, Associate Professor, Berkeley (Co-sponsored talk with IES- PIRT)
November 25th, 2024
Kimball Hall Lobby
12:00 pm – 1:20 pm
RSVP for Dr. Tolani Britton's seminar
We are co-sponsoring a talk with Tolani Britton with NYU's Institute of Education Sciences-funded Predoctoral Interdisciplinary research Training (IES-PIRT). Tolani Britton uses quasi-experimental methods to explore the impact of policies on students’ transition from secondary school to higher education, as well as access and retention in higher education. Recent work explores whether the disproportionate increase in incarceration of Black males for drug possessions and manufacture increased gaps in college enrollment rates by race and gender over two time periods- after the passage of the Anti-Drug Act from 1986 - 1993 and after the passage of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act from 1995 - 2000.