Past Workshops

Autumn 2024

Oct 10
Nicholas Kryczka
Workshop: American Lesson Plan: Research Beyond the Culture Wars in US History Teaching
Recent Publication: American Lesson Plan: Teaching US History in Secondary Schools

Oct 17
Derek Rury
Workshop: Gender-STEM Stereotypes and College Major Choice

Oct 24
Ari Anisfeld
Workshop: Language, Identity, and Ethnic Cohesion in Schools

Rohen Shah
Workshop: When the Student Becomes the Master: A Field Experiment on Learning by Teaching

Oct 31
Xiangdong Yang
Workshop: A Theory-Driven Approach to Item Design: The Case of Mental Rotation Tasks

Nov 7
Sharon Greenberg and Anthony Bryk
Workshop: Some Learnings and Reflections from “How a City Learned to Improve its Schools”
Recent Publications:

  • Bryk, A.S, S. Greenberg, A. Bertani, P. Sebring, S. Tozer, T. Knowles, How a City Learned to Improve its Schools, 2023, Harvard Education Press.
  • 2024. Greenberg and A.S. Bryk, Changing the School System Improvement Narrative, Kappan, March 2024. pp12 – 17.

Nov 14
Geoffrey Borman
Workshop: Access to Free Books Improves Literacy Achievement: Evidence from a Five-Year Randomized Trial

Nov 21
Linxi Lu
Workshop: Navigating Trade-offs in Early Math: How Context Influences Parent-Child Interaction
Recent Publications:

Dec 5
Emily Rauscher
Workshop: Priceless Benefits: Effects of School Spending on Child Mortality
Recent Publication: Progressive Spending Is Efficient, Effects of Wildfires on Infant Health, Parental Educational Similarity and Infant Health

Winter 2025

Jan 16
David Stovall
Workshop: Black Fugitive Futures: Embracing the Possibilities of Abolition in the Here and Now
Recent Publication:

Jan 23
Haruka Uchida and John List
Workshop: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow? Toward an Understanding of Fade-out in Early Childhood Education Programs
Recent Publication: 

Jan 30
David Uttal
Workshop: Towards Cognitive Mapping for Humans: The Influences of Maps and Mapping on Spatial Cognition

Recent Publication:

  • Seeing the Big Picture: Map Use and the Development of Spatial Cognition

Feb 6
Rebecca Unterman
Workshop: The Effects of New York City’s Small Public High Schools of Choice: A Portfolio of Work Estimating Impacts on Student Outcomes and Exploring School Features Related to Student Success
Recent Publications

Feb 13
Alex Eble
Workshop: Gender Inequality in Academic Science: How and Why Men and Women Benefit Differentially from Major Career Opportunities
Recent Publications: 

Feb 20
Sean Drake
Workshop: Onward and Upward: Race and Refugee Youth in a Rust Belt City
Recent Publication: 

Feb 27
Jennifer Etienne
Workshop: How Black Parents Use School Choice to Move Beyond Diversity

Kaitlyn Franklin
Workshop: English Learners in Chicago Public Schools: A Spotlight on High School Students

March 6
Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick
Workshop: Social Networks as a Mediator for Transition Success: Building Better Bridges RCT
Recent Publication: 

  • Hassrick, E. M. (2024). Why Social Network Matter. Handbook of Research-Based Practices for Educating Students with Intellectual Disability.

Spring 2025

April 3
Bruce Sacerdote
Workshop: How Test Optional Policies in College Admissions Disproportionately Harm High Achieving Applicants from Disadvantaged Backgrounds
Recent Publication: 

April 10
Susanna Loeb
Workshop: Real-Time Research for Decision Making Across the Decentralized US Education System:  The Case of High-Impact Tutoring
Recent Publications:  

April 17
Tyler Watts
Workshop: Using Meta-Analytic Evidence to Understand Educational Intervention Impact Persistence and Fadeout
Recent Publications: 

  • Predicting Persistence and Fadeout Across Multi-Site RCTs of an Early Childhood Mathematics Curriculum Intervention
  • Fadeout and Persistence of Intervention Impacts on Social–Emotional and Cognitive Skills in Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analytic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials 

April 24
Ashley Cureton
Workshop: After the School Day, What’s Next?: Exploring Refugee Youths’ Motivation and Engagement in After-School Programs
Recent Publications:

May 8
Cynthia Coburn
Workshop: Leveraging Research to Foster Educational Improvement 
Recent Publication:
Research Hidden in Plain Sight: Theorizing Latent Use as a Form of Research Use 

May 15
Ashley Uphoff
Workshop: The Allocation of STEM Opportunities to Learn for Under-Served Students in Rural Missouri

Alex Koenig
Workshop: “There Is No Plan”: School Attendance and Persistence Among Immigrant Youth in Puebla, Mexico

Autumn 2023

Oct 5
Lesley Turner
Workshop: PLUS or Minus? The Effect of Graduate School Loans on Access, Attainment, and Prices

Oct 12
Elaine Allensworth
Workshop: Shifting Schools from Replicating to Reducing Inequality: Educational Attainment in Chicago

Oct 19
Christina Brown
Workshop: Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital

Oct 26
Carolyn Hill (MDRC) and Lauren Scher (Mathematica)
Workshop: IES Learning Seminar on Conducting Implementation Research in Impact Studies of Education Interventions

Nov 2
Alison Doxey
Workshop: Democratizing Opportunity: The Effects of the U.S. High School Movement

Karina Kling
Workshop: Characterizing the Development of Early Number Skills: Building Blocks or Interwoven Fibers?

Nov 9
Onnie Rogers, Northwestern University
Workshop: Just and Humane Education: Exploring the Possibilities of Black Girl Space

Nov 16
Jenny Nagaoka and Dominique McKoy
Workshop: Exploratory Workshop with To&Through Milestone Tool

Winter 2024

Jan 4
Elizabeth Armstrong, University of Michigan
Workshop: Parents, Partners, and Professions: Reproduction and Mobility in a Cohort of College Women

Jan 11
Monica Bhatt and Jens Ludwig
Workshop: Overcoming Pandemic-Induced Learning Loss

Jan 18
Lin Bian
Workshop: The Gender Gap in STEM and Beyond: When, Why and How to Close it

Jan 25
Maximilian Cuddy
Workshop: School Consolidation in the Unequal City: How Race and Class Shape Efforts to Change Urban Education

Feb 1
Haruka Uchida
Workshop: Using a Field Experiment to Understand Skill Formation During Adolescence

Feb 8
Nolan Pope, University of Maryland
Workshop: Making Teaching Last: Long-Run Value-Added

Feb 15
Kyshia Henderson
Workshop: On White Americans Engagement With the History of Racism

Feb 22
Alex Shaw
Workshop: Some Ways That Children’s Social Inferences Might Matter for Education

Feb 29
Tali Raviv, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Workshop: Addressing the Youth Mental Health Crisis by Investing in Culturally-Responsive and Trauma-Informed Comprehensive School Mental Health Systems

Spring 2024

March 28
Getting on Track Research Group Panel
Workshop: Using Data to Improve Teaching: The Case of Pre-school Math

April 4
Michelle Madlansacay
Workshop: Beyond Caregiver Talk: How Multimodal Responsiveness Could Promote Children’s Language Development

Ashley Uphoff
Workshop: A Literature Review at the Intersection of Math Achievement and School Discipline 

April 11
Guanglei Hong
Workshop: How to Make a Valid Assessment of Organizational Effectiveness? A New Strategy to Leverage Multisite Randomized Trials

April 18
Jessica Calarco, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Workshop: Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net 

April 25
Eric Grodsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Workshop: Beyond Credentials: Understanding Educational Gradients in Cognitive Function at Midlife 

May 2
Andrew Frangos 
Workshop: Working with Race to Pursue Equity: Chicago’s (Most Recent) Conflict Over a Proposed (“Chinatown”?) High School

Caroline Kelly
Workshop: School Medicaid Expansion in Chicago Public Schools: Initial Interviews with District Administrators

May 9
Dana Suskind and Julie Pernaudet
Workshop: Developing Scalable Solutions to Inform, Measure, and Enhance Early Childhood Development

May 16
Melissa Osborne, Western Washington University
Workshop: Polished: College, Class, and the Burdens of Social Mobility

Autumn 2022

Sept 29
Michael Kremer
Workshop: School Vouchers, Labor Markets and Vocational Education

Oct 6
Rebecca Dizon Ross
Workshop: The (Lack Of) Anticipatory Effects of the Social Safety Net on Human Capital Investment

Oct 13
Stephen Raudenbush
Workshop: Reforming Highschool Mathematics to Reduce Inequality: Evidence from Chicago

Oct 20
Geoff Wodtke
Workshop: Concentrated Poverty, Ambient Air Pollution, and Child Cognitive Development

Oct 27
Junelei Li
Workshop: How Do We Achieve Quality with Equity? Reflections Through Early Childhood Experiences

Nov 3
Julie Henly
Workshop: Child Care Programs Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Qualitative Insights From a Sample of Center and Home-Based Providers in Illinois

Nov 10
Alicia Menendez
Workshop: Understanding improvements in reading performance in Liberia: the centrality of text

Nov 17
Maria Martinez-Cabrera
Workshop: “How Does Immigration Affect Incumbent Students? Evidence from the Venezuelan Migration to Peru” (with Diana Martínez Heredia)

Emileigh Harrison
Workshop: “Separation of Church and State Curriculum: Representation in Religious Private School Materials” (with Anjali Adukia)

Winter 2023

Jan 5
Elizabeth Gunderson, Temple University
Workshop: Childhood Spatial Skills: Sources of Variation and Educational Outcomes

Jan 12
Cinita Hinojosa, University of Chicago
Workshop: How critical race narratives counter psychological and structural barriers to equitable public safety solutions

Jan 19
Sally Sadoff, University of California, San Diego
Workshop: Sleep: Educational Impact and Habit Formation

Jan 26
Julia Burdick-Will, Johns Hopkins University
Workshop: Anywhere But Here: Neighborhood Violence and Local School Preferences in Baltimore City

Feb 2
Tom Kane, Harvard University
Workshop: Have Income-Based Achievement Gaps Widened or Narrowed?

Feb 9
Anjali Adukia, University of Chicago and Ben Feigenberg, University of Illinois Chicago
Workshop: From Retributive to Restorative: An Alternative Approach to Justice (joint with Fatemeh Momeni)

Feb 16
Josh Dean, University of Chicago
Workshop: The Effect of Formal Preschool in India

Feb 23
Marisa Casillas, University of Chicago
Workshop: Encountering and learning language in diverse childhood contexts

March 2
Bianca Baldridge, Harvard University
Workshop: The Youthwork Paradox: Race, Youth Workers, and the Complexity of Community-based Education

Spring 2023

March 23
Jennifer Jennings
Workshop: The Social Transformation of Urban Education

March 30
Eos Trinidad
Workshop: From Boardrooms to Classrooms: Dropouts, Data Systems, and How Organizations Shape American Education

Ari Anisfeld
Workshop: Common Language and Inter-ethnic Networks: The role of communication in inter-group contact

April 6
Emma Adam
Workshop: Adolescent stress: Origins, outcomes and interventions

April 20
Amanda Stein (Start Early) and Terri Sabol (Northwestern University)
Workshop: Leveraging a Partnership Approach to Policy- and Practice-Relevant Research: A Focus on Equitable Access 

April 27
Jack Mountjoy
Workshop: Marginal Returns to Public Universities

May 4
Harshil Sahai
The Welfare Implications of School Voucher Design: Evidence from India

Esperanza Johnson
Workshop: Supply responses to targeted government aid:  evidence from free college in Chile

May 18
Constantine Yannelis
Workshop: Debt Moratoria: Evidence from Student Loan Forbearance

Autumn 2021

Oct 7   

Elaine Allensworth (UChicago Consortium) and panel from Chicago Public Schools

Oct 14 
Jens Ludwig (Chicago)
Presentation Title: Personalized Education

Oct 21 
Student Presentations:

Karlyn Gorski (Sociology)
Presentation Title: On Edge: Schooling in the Urban Periphery

Alizé Hill (Crown)
Presentation Title: “They slow me down”: The school discipline, legal involvement, and community care experiences of Black Adolescents

Oct 28 
Lindsey Richland (UC-Irvine)
Presentation Title: Reasoning and Learning under Everyday Pressures: A Complex Pattern

Nov 4  
Geoffrey Borman (Arizona State)
Presentation Title: A Replicable Identity-Based Intervention Reduces the Black-White Suspension Gap at Scale

Nov 11              
Lisa Rosen (Chicago) and Tanika Island Childress (UChicago Charter School)
Presentation Title: The Ambitious Elementary School: Its Conception, Design and Implications for Educational Equality

Nov 18 
Chezare Warren (Vanderbilt-Peabody)
Presentation Title: From Morning to Mourning: A Meditation on Possibility in Black Education

Dec 2  
Charles Payne (Rutgers)
Presentation Title: The Deficits of Anti-Deficit Discourse

Autumn 2020

Oct 6   
Panel Discussion: Struggling for Educational Equality in the Age of COVID:
Deborah Gorman-Smith, University of Chicago, Daniel Anello, Kids First Chicago, and Rebecca Vonderlack-Navarro, Latino Policy Forum

Oct 13 
Douglas Downey,  Professor of Sociology, Ohio State University
Title: Inequality American Style: What Role Do Schools Play?

Oct 20 
William Delgado Martinez, Harris School of Public Policy
Title: Teacher’s Comparative Advantage, School Segregation, and Educational Mobility in Chicago Public Schools

Oct 27 
Stephen W. Raudenbush, Lewis Sebring Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology and Harris School of Public Policy, Chair, Committee on Education
Title: Longitudinally Adaptive Assessment and Instruction, Increase Numerical Skills of Preschool Children

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for the Economics of Human Development and will be held from 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Nov 3  
Heather C. Hill,  Jerome T. Murphy Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Title: Strengthening the Research Base that Informs STEM Instructional Improvement Efforts: A Meta Analysis

Nov 10
Geoffrey Wodtke,  Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
Title: Toxic Neighborhoods: The Joint Effect of Concentrated Poverty and Environmental Lead Contamination on Cognitive Development during Early Childhood

Nov 17              
Joshua Goodman, Associate Professor of Education and Economics, Boston University
Title: Inequality in Household Adaptation to Schooling Shocks: Covid Induced Online Learning Engagement in Real Time 

Dec 1  
Min Sun, Associate Professor in Education Policy, University of Washington
Title: Using a Text-as Data Approach to Understand Reform Process: A Deep Exploration of School Improvement Strategies 

Winter 2021

Jan 19 
Lauren Sartain, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina School of Education 
Title: Teacher Evaluation Reform and the Exit of Low-Performing Teachers

Jan 26 
Kelly Hallberg, Scientific Director, UChicago Inclusive Economy Lab
Title: Improving Community College Enrollment and Persistence: Early Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial

Feb 2   
Sara Hart, Associate Professor, Florida State University Department of Psychology
Title: Using precision education to understand learning differences

Feb 9   
Teya Rutherford, Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences, University of Delaware School of Education
Title: Opportunities for Educational Research Born of a Long-Running Partnership with a Mathematics Learning Platform

Feb 16 
Richard William Prather, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology
Title: Reconstructing the Study of Human Cognition by Abandoning Cognitive Universalism

Feb 23 
Lin Bian, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Department of Psychology
Title: Roots of the Gender Gap in Academia and Beyond

March 2            
Jared Schachner, Postdoctoral Scholar/Mansueto Fellow, University of Chicago  Department of Sociology and Mansueto Institute of Urban Innovation
Title: Suburban Schools’ Superiority? Perception versus Reality and the Consequences for Spatial Stratification

March 9            
Cristina Groeger, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Lake Forest College
Title:  Why Education Can't Solve Social Inequality

Spring 2021

April 6 
Anjali Adukia
Title: What we teach about race and gender: Representation in images and text of children’s books

April 13            
Avi Feller
Title: Varying impacts of letters of recommendation on college admissions: Approximate balancing weights for subgroup effects in observational studies

April 20            
Christina Brown
Title: Inducing Positive Sorting through Performance Pay: Experimental Evidence from Pakistani Schools

April 27            
Student Presentations:

Kailey White, Sociology
Title: Social Class Differences in the Ways Parents and Students Conceptualize College Options

Jose Eos Trinidad, Comparative Human Development
Title: Why school accountability persists: Understanding organizational drivers and ecological dynamics

May 4  
Katie Kinzler

May 11              
Daphne Penn
Title: The American Dream Deferred: The Promises and Pitfalls of Education for Unaccompanied Minors in the Nuevo South

May 18              
Bianca Baldridge

May 25              
Student Presentations:

Natalie Dowling, Comparative Human Development

Hilary Tackie, Comparative Human Development

Autumn Quarter 2018

Oct 12  
Special Event: Anthony Bryk, President, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching 
Title: Effective Elementary Schools: Lessons in School Improvement from Chicago’s South Side 

Note: This event takes place Fri, Oct 12, 2018 from 8:30 – 10:30 am at The University Club of Chicago, Northwestern Room, located at 76 East Monroe Street in downtown Chicago.

Oct 16
Melissa Osborne, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago 
Title: Jumping the Ladder: How Low-Income and First-Generation Students Navigate Social Mobility Through College 

Oct 24
Special Event: Derek Neal, Professor of Economics, Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago
Title: Information, Incentives, and Education Policy, Harvard University Press, May 2018 

Note: This event takes place on Wed Oct 24, 2018 at 3:00 pm in the Social Science Tea Room 201 (second floor) located at 1126 East 59th Street 

Oct 30 
Camika Royal, Assistant Professor of Urban Education, Loyola University Maryland
Title: You Can’t Get Here from There: Equity Leaders in Need of Liberatory Pedagogies

Nov 6  
Fatemeh Momeni, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Department of Economics, University of Chicago 
Title: Why Are Measures of Early Education Program Too Pessimistic? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment

Nov 13
Shanta Robinson, Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago 
Title: Homeless Youth of Color and the Shaping of Aspirations: The (Re) productive Role of Institutions 

Nov 27              
Amy Lieberman, Assistant Professor of Deaf Studies, Boston University
Title: Learning Language in the Visual World: How Interaction Shapes Early Word Learning in Young Deaf Children 

Dec 4  
Student Presentations:

Ezra Karger, Department of Economics 
Title: The Long-Run Effects of Public Libraries: Evidence from the Early 1900s 

Darnell Leatherwood, School of Social Service Administration 
Title: A National Assessment of Variation in Academic Achievement among Black Students

Winter Quarter

Jan 15  
Michael Dinerstein, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Chicago 
Title: The Effect of Value-Added Incentives on Multidimensional Teacher Output: Evidence from Tenure Reform in New York City 

Jan 22 
Ramon M. Griffin, PhD, Chief Culture Officer, University of Chicago Charter Schools
Title: A Phenomenological Case Study of Four Black males Exposed to Cumulative Trauma that Attended a ‘No Excuses’ Charter School 

Feb 5   
Rebecca Hinze-Pifer, Assistant Professor, College of Education, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Title: A Decade of Growth in Academic Achievement Gaps: Segregation, Common Core, or Other Factors? 

Feb 12
Sally Sadoff, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego 
Title: Improving College Instruction through Incentives

Feb 19 
Anna Mueller, Assistant Professor, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago 
Title: Identity, Mental Health & Schooling: Insights from a High School with Recurring Suicide Clusters

Feb 26 
Student Presentations:

Sarah Cashdollar, Comparative Human Development
Title: Career and Technical Education in the Era of College for All Exploring Diversity of Youth Postsecondary Aspirations in “Middletown,” USA 

Neil Cholli, Economics 
Title: Parental Influence and Child Agency in Educational Decisions and Intergenerational Mobility 

Karlyn Gorski, Sociology
Title: In School for After School: The Relationship Between Extracurricular Participation and  School Engagement 

Mar 6  
Special Event: Joshua D. Angrist,  Ford Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Breaking Ties: Regression Discontinuity Design Meets Market Design 

Please Note: This event takes place on Wed, Mar 6, 2019 from 300 pm until 430 pm Social Sciences Research Building – 1126 East 59th Street – First Floor Seminar Room 122 

Mar 12              
Student Presentations:

Cristina Carrazza, Department of Psychology
Title: Making Storytime Count Improving Math Learning at Home Through Literacy

David McMillon, Harris School of Public Policy
Title: A Theoretical Analysis of Behavioral Infractions and School Disciplinary Policy

Spring Quarter

Apr 9   
Jens Ludwig, Professor, University of Chicago 
Title: Behavioral Science for Education Policy Impact 

Apr 16
Stefanie Deluca, Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Coming of Age in the Other America 

Apr 23 
Rucker Johnson, Associate Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works

Apr 30 
Jessaca Spybrook, Professor, Western Michigan University
Title: What can we Learn from Randomized Trials in Education? A Look at the Past, Present, and Future

May 7  
Jason Grissom, Associate Professor of Public Policy Education, Peabody College/Vanderbilt University 
Title: Investigating Race and Gender Biases in High-Stakes Teacher Evaluations (joint work with Brendan Bartanen)

May 14              
Kelly Trezise, Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Human Development University of Chicago
Title: Characterizing Students’ Anxiety and Cognitive Functioning During Math Problem Solving and Learning 

May 21              
Sarah Komisarow, Assistant Professor, Stanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 
Title: Getting on Track Outside of School Evidence from StudentU

Autumn Quarter 2017 

Oct 3
James Heckman, The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
Title: Quantifying the Life-Cycle Benefits of a Prototypical Early Childhood Program

Oct 10
Morgan Polikoff, Associate Professor, University of Southern California
Title: Textbook Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence on Textbook Adoption and Effects

Oct 24
Byeong-Young Cho, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Title: Cognition, Reading, and Critical Learning in Multisource Digital-Text Environments

Oct 31
Alex Eble, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Title: Stereotypes, Role Models, and The Formation of Beliefs

Nov 7
Daniel Hamlin, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Title: Are Charter Schools Safer in Deindustrialized Cities with High Rates of Crime?  Testing Hypotheses in Detroit

Nov 14
Jonathan Davis, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
Title: The Short and Long Run Impacts of Centralized Clearinghouses: Evidence from Matching Teach for America Teachers to Schools

Nov 21
IES Presentations


Winter Quarter 2018

Jan 9
Chris Rozek, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago
Title: Exploring the Role of Motivational Factors in the Leaky STEM Pipeline in High School and College

Jan 16 
Claude Steele, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University 
Title: Stereotype Threat and Identify Threat: The Science of a Diverse Community 

Jan 23 
Matthew Steinberg, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Title: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Closing Schools on Students’ Academic and Behavioral Outcomes: Evidence from Philadelphia 

Jan 30 
Nicole McNeil, Professor of Psychology, University of Notre Dame
Title: Little Things Mean A Lot: Small Variations in the Structure of Input Affect Children’s Learning and Performance in Mathematics

Feb 6   
Lindsey Richland, Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Title: Children’s Mathematical Thinking: Impacts of Cognitive Load and Pressure to Perform

Feb 13 
Chezare Warren, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Title: Urban Preparation: A Critical Race Examination of Young Black Men’s Journey to and through College

Feb 20 
Kristen Renn, Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education, Michigan State University
Title: Expanding Definitios of “Success” for LGBTQ College Students

Feb 27 
Steven Barnett, Board of Governors Professor and Senior Co-Director of the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), Rutgers University
Title: Producting Large and Sustained Impacts in State-Funded Pre-K Education; Cross State Comparisons and Long-Term Follow-up in New Jersey

Mar 6  
William F. Tate, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Vice Provost for Graduate Education, Edward Millinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in Arts and Sciences, Washington University in Saint Louis
Title: Gateway to the West: Refashioning the Arc of Opportunity in St. Louis