The Institute of 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 seven affiliated departments across NYU 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.
Unless otherwise noted, all sessions are open to the public (note that anyone unaffiliated with IHDSC may be asked to provide a photo ID at the security desk). Unless otherwise noted, all sessions are scheduled at 12:00pm-1:30pm in Kimball Hall, 246 Greene Street, Room 607W.
Spring 2020
Fall 2019
September 16
Associate Professor, Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy
Title: What Makes Research Relevant and Convincing
September 30
Professor of Education, Pennsylvania State University
Title: Are Schools in the U.S. South Using Special Education to Segregate Students by Race?
October 21
Director of Cornell Institute for Public Affairs and Associate Professor, Cornell University
Title: Beyond Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic: The Role of Teachers and Schools in Reporting Child Maltreatment
November 4
Professor, University of California, Irvine
Title: District-level Achievement Gaps Explain Black and Hispanic Over-representation in Special Education
November 18
Director of Institute for Policy Research and Professor, Northwestern University
Title: Increasing Children's Access to Breakfast