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faculty:

jay p. greene
department head,
endowed chair
in education reform



robert m. costrell
endowed chair
in accountability

robert maranto
endowed chair
in leadership


gary w. ritter

endowed chair
in education policy



sandra stotsky
endowed chair
in teacher quality



patrick j. wolf
endowed chair
in school choice



Department of Education Reform Lecture Series

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

DER Lecture Series

(to learn more about Sara Mead or Jelani Mandara, click on their picture)


Upcoming 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.


university of arkansas | department of education reform | 201 graduate education building | fayetteville | ar | 72701
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