BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Nora Gordon (Georgetown University) presented "Funding High-Pov erty School Districts: Federal Policy Tools and the Limits of Incentives" at the annual Jerry Miner Lecture.Nora Gordon is an economist and professo r at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy. She is a r esearch associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research\, non-reside nt fellow of the Urban Institute\, and a member of the FutureEd Advisory B oard.Dr. Gordon and Carrie Conaway are the authors of "Common-Sense Eviden ce: The Education Leader's Guide to Using Data and Research." Her own rese arch focuses on American education policy\, with an emphasis on the federa l role in elementary and secondary education. She has studied the distribu tional impacts of Title I\; fiscal rules governing federal education grant s\; the Community Eligibility Provision\; state school finance reforms\, c auses and consequences of school desegregation\; and school district conso lidation. Her research has been published in journals including the Quarte rly Journal of Economics\, the Journal of Public Economics\, and the Ameri can Economic Journal: Economic Policy\, and funded by the National Science Foundation\, the Spencer Foundation for Education Research\, the American Educational Research Association\, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. H er popular writing appears in outlets including the New York Times\, Educa tion Week\, and TheAtlantic.com.Dr. Gordon has testified before the Senate Committee on Health\, Education\, Labor and Pensions and the House Subcom mittee on Early Childhood\, Elementary\, and Secondary Education on implem entation of the Every Student Succeeds Act. She has served on the Institut e of Education Sciences expert panel on the study of the Title I Formula a nd D.C.’s state Title I Committee of Practitioners\, and currently serves on the professional advisory board of the National Center for Learning Dis abilities.Dr. Gordon enjoys mentoring junior scholars\, including at the M cCourt School\, through the CeMENT program of the American Economic Associ ation’s Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession\, and through the Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education’s postdoctor al fellowship program. DTEND:20230420T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260518T091350Z DTSTART:20230420T193000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Funding High-Poverty School Districts: Federal Policy Tools and the Limits of Incentives UID:RFCALITEM639146780308024173 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Nora Gordon (Georgetown University) present ed "Funding High-Poverty School Districts: Federal Policy Tools and the Li mits of Incentives" at the annual Jerry Miner Lecture.

Nora Gordon i s an economist and professor at the Georgetown University McCourt School o f Public Policy. She is a research associate of the National Bureau of Eco nomic Research\, non-resident fellow of the Urban Institute\, and a member of the FutureEd Advisory Board.

Dr. Gordon and Carrie Conaway are the authors of "Common-Sense Evidence: The Education Leader's Guide to Usi ng Data and Research." Her own research focuses on American education poli cy\, with an emphasis on the federal role in elementary and secondary educ ation.

She has studied the distributional impacts of Title I\; fisc al rules governing federal education grants\; the Community Eligibility Pr ovision\; state school finance reforms\, causes and consequences of school desegregation\; and school district consolidation.

Her research ha s been published in journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics\ , the Journal of Public Economics\, and the American Economic Journal: Eco nomic Policy\, and funded by the National Science Foundation\, the Spencer Foundation for Education Research\, the American Educational Research Ass ociation\, and the Smith Richardson Foundation. Her popular writing appear s in outlets including the New York Times\, Education Week\, and TheAtlant ic.com.

Dr. Gordon has testified before the Senate Committee on Hea lth\, Education\, Labor and Pensions and the House Subcommittee on Early C hildhood\, Elementary\, and Secondary Education on implementation of the E very Student Succeeds Act. She has served on the Institute of Education Sc iences expert panel on the study of the Title I Formula and D.C.’s state T itle I Committee of Practitioners\, and currently serves on the profession al advisory board of the National Center for Learning Disabilities.

Dr. Gordon enjoys mentoring junior scholars\, including at the McCourt Sc hool\, through the CeMENT program of the American Economic Association’s C ommittee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession\, and through the Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education’s postdoctoral fellow ship program.

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