The University of Arkansas Department of Education Reform is pleased to announce these events as part of our 2009-10 Lecture Series. Additional lectures are being planned and information on those events will be posted when available. Click here for the Univesity of Arkansas' press release.

• Date: April 10, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Daniel Willingham, Professor, University of Virginia
  Lecture Title: How Do You Actually Teach Critical Thinking? A Cognitive Psychologist Describes the Path to 21st-Century Skills
  (video coming soon)
   

Presentation:How Do You Actually Teach Critical Thinking? A Cognitive Psychologist Describes the Path to 21st-Century Skills

• 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 (Total Student Load)
  (video coming soon)
   

• Date: March 28, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Mark Dynarski, Vice President; Director, Center for Improving Research Evidence, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
  Lecture Title: Using Software to Improve Learning: Findings from the National Evaluation of Education Technology(video coming soon)
  

Presentation:Effectiveness of Reading and Math Software Products: Findings From the National Evaluation

• 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 (click here for lecture video)
  

Presentation: Every Catholic Child in a Catholic School

• Date: January 23, 2009
  Guest Speaker: Eric Hanushek, Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
  Lecture Title: Harming the Best: How Schools Affect the Black-White Achievement Gap (click here for lecture video)
  

Presentation: Harming the Best

• 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: Civic Engagement and Education (click here for lecture video)
  
  
  Presentation: Civic Engagement and Education (pdf)

• 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
  Lecture Title: Sustaining Education Reform: What To Do When You Do Not Know What To Do (click here for lecture video)
  
  
  Presentation: What To Do When You Don't Know What To Do (pdf)
  
  

• Date: Friday, October 3, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Paul Teske, Dean and Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver (bio)
  Lecture Title: Refining Market-based Education Reforms: Parent Choice/Information and Teacher Pay for Performance (click here for lecture video)
  
  
  Presentation: Assessing Market-Like Education Policy Reforms (pdf)
  
  

• Date: Friday, September 26, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Matthew Springer, Research Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Education, Vanderbilt University (bio)
  Lecture Title: The Estimated Effects of a Teacher Pay for Performance Program on Student Test Score Gains and Teacher Turnover
  (no video available)
  
  

• Date: Friday, September 19, 2008
  Guest Speaker: Julie Cullen, Associate Professor, University of California San Diego (bio)
  Lecture Title: Jockeying for Position: High School Mobility and Texas' Top-Ten Percent Rule (click here for lecture video)
  
  
  

• Date: Friday, September 12, 2008
  Guest Speakers: Sara Mead and Jelani Mandara
  Lecture Title: The Education of Boys (click here for lecture video)
  
  

See below to learn more about previous lectures.

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