Upcoming Speakers

Amy Schwartz, Syracuse, The Maxwell School

October 25, 2016

2:30-4pm

Gentry 144

John Papay, Brown University, Assistant Professor of Education and Economics

November 9, 2016

11:30-1pm

Gentry 142/144

Title: The Effects of School Turnaround Strategies in Massachusetts

Bio: John Papay is an Assistant Professor of Education and Economics at Brown University. His research focuses on teacher policy, the economics of education, and teacher labor markets. He has published on teacher value-added models, teacher evaluation, high-stakes testing, teacher compensation, and program evaluation methodology. He has served as a Research Affiliate with the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers and a Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard. A former high school history teacher, he earned his doctorate in Quantitative Policy Analysis from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Sean Corcoran, New York University, Associate Professor of Educational Economics

December 7, 2016

11:30-1pm

Gentry 142/144

Sean P. Corcoran is Associate Professor of Educational Economics at NYU Steinhardt, affiliated faculty of the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and associate director of NYU’s Institute for Education and Social Policy (IESP). Dr. Corcoran earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2003. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at California State University, Sacramento (2003-2005) and a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation (2005-2006). In 2012-13 he was a visitor at the Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA) at Stanford University.

Dr. Corcoran’s research interests are in the Economics of Education, State and Local Public Finance, and Applied Microeconomics. His published papers have examined long-run trends in teacher quality, the impact of income inequality and school finance reform on the level and equity of education funding in the United States, the properties of “value-added” measures of teacher effectiveness, and the high school choices of middle school students in New York City. Together with colleagues at NYU, Columbia, and Seton Hall University, he is conducting one of the largest randomized control trials of information supports for school choice ever conducted.

Dr. Corcoran serves on the editorial boards of the journals Education Finance and Policy and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and is a former member of the board of directors of the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) and the research committee for the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).

Past Speakers

Dr. Peter Young, Associate Professor University of Virginia, Curry School of Education

The Role of Social Context in Novice Teacher Development
September 27th, 2016

Speaker video (youtube link)

PowerPoint Slides (PDF)

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