The University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform is pleased to announce these events as part of our 2008-09 Lecture Series. Additional lectures are being planned and information on those events will be posted when available.

2008-2009 Lectures

Click on a speaker's name to learn more. Unless otherwise indicated all lectures will be in GRAD 343 and begin at 12 p.m.

Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
Guest Speaker: Julie Cullen, Associate Professor, University of California San Diego
Lecture Title: Implicit Performance Awards in the School Principal Labor Market

Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
Guest Speaker: Matthew Springer, Research Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education, Vanderbilt University

Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
Guest Speaker: Paul Teske, Dean and Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver
Lecture Title: Refining Market-based Education Reforms: Parent Choice/Information and Teacher Pay for Performance

Date: Friday, October 17, 2008
Guest Speaker: James Guthrie, Professor of Public Policy and Education; Director of the Peabody Center for Education Policy; Chair of the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations, Vanderbilt University

Date: Friday, October 24, 2008
Guest Speaker: Dave Campbell, John Cardinal OHara, C.S.C. Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Lecture Title: The Theory of Educational Relativity: Reconsidering Educations' Relationship to Democratic Citizenship

Date: January 23, 2009
Guest Speaker: Eric Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Date: February 6, 2009
Guest Speaker: Martin West, Assistant Professor of Education, Political Science, and Public Policy, Brown University
Lecture Title: Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School: Historical Resistance to State Schooling, Contemporary Private Competition, and Student Achievement Across Countries

Date: March 27, 2009
Guest Speaker: Mark Dynarski, Vice President; Director, Center for Improving Research Evidence, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Date: April 3, 2009
Guest Speaker: William Ouchi, Sanford and Betty Sigoloff Chair in Corporate Renewal, Area Chair, UCLA
Lecture Title: The Secret of TSL

See below to learn more about previous lectures.

• 2007-2008 Lecture Series
  
  
• 2006-2007 Lecture Series