Department of Education Reform
  
 
 
 
 
2007-08 Lecture Series

The University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform is pleased to announce these events as part of our 2007-08 Lecture Series. Additional lectures are being planned and information on those events will be posted when available.


William Howell 

Date: Friday, September 7, 2007
Guest Speaker: William Howell, Associate Professor, The Harris School, University of Chicago
Title: What America Thinks about Their Schools
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Location: Graduate Education Building Room 210

Click here to view slides from William Howell's presentation, "What Americans Think about Their Schools."


Date: Friday, October 19, 2007
Guest Speaker: William Jeynes, Professor, Department of Teacher Education, California State University, Long Beach
Title: Religion, Intact Families, and the Achievement Gap
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Location: Graduate Education Building Room 210

Date: Friday, October 26, 2007
Guest Speaker: William Gormley, Professor of Government and Public Policy, Georgetown University
Title: The Effects of Oklahoma's Universal Pre-K Program
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Location: Graduate Education Building Room 210

Date: Friday, November 9, 2007
Guest Speaker: Andrew Rotherham, Co-director, Education Sector
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Location: Graduate Education Building Room 210

Date: Friday, November 30, 2007
Guest Speaker: Raji Chakrabarti, Economist, Microeconomic and Regional Studies Function, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Location: Graduate Education Building Room 210

Date: Friday, January 25, 2008
Guest Speaker: David Figlio, Economics Department, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida

Date: Friday, February 8, 2008
Guest Speaker: General John Fryer, CEO of the National Institute for School Leadership

Date: Friday, February 15, 2008
Guest Speaker: Susan Zelman, Superintendent of Public Instruction for Ohio

Date: Friday, February 22, 2008
Guest Speaker: Caroline M. Hoxby, Scott & Donya Bommer Professor of Economics, Stanford University

Date: March 13, 2008
Guest Speaker: Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government, Harvard University, Editor-in-Chief, Education Next

Date: March 28, 2007
Guest Speaker: Dave Driscoll, former Massachusetts Commissioner of Education, and Ken James, Arkansas Commissioner of Education

Date: Friday, April 11, 2008
Guest Speaker: Michael Puma, President of Chesapeake Research Associates, LLC
Title: National Head Start Impact Study
Time: 12-1:30 p.m.
Location: Graduate Education Building Room 210

Click here to see the list of lectures from the 2006-07 series and access video from the events.