Education Finance and Accountability Program (EFAP)
The Jerry Miner Lecture Series Archive
Past lecturers include:
2019. Eugenia
Toma (Martin School of Public Policy & Administration at the University
of Kentucky). "Rural School Policy: Focus on Kentucky School Reform."
2018. Susan
Dynarski (Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, School of Education,
Department of Economics and Institute for Social Research, University of
Michigan, and the Education Policy Initiative). "Increasing Economic
Diversity at a Flagship University: Results from a Large-Scale, Randomized
Trial."
2017. Scott
Imberman (Michigan State University, Department of Educational
Administration). "The Roles of Neonatal Health and Race in Special
Education Identification."
2016. Richard
Murnane (Harvard University). "The Consequences of
Educational Reform in Chile: Lessons for the U.S. School Choice Debate."
2015. Douglas
Harris (Tulane University). Dr. Harris presented the results from
several of his papers on the question: What have been the effects of the New
Orleans school reforms?
2014. Charles
Clotfelter (Duke University). "Colleges and Their Customers:
The Market for Baccalaureate Education in The Age of Merit and Disparity."
2013. Amy
Schwartz (NYU Institute for Education and Social
Policy). "The Effect of Breakfast in the Classroom on Obesity and
Academic Performance: Evidence from New York City."
2012. Henry
Levin (Teachers College, Columbia University). "The Utility
and Need for Incorporating Non-Cognitive Skills into Large Scale Educational
Assessments."
2011. John
Bishop. (Department of Human Resource Studies at the New York State
School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University). "An
Economic Theory of Academic Engagement Norms: The Struggle for Popularity and
Normative Hegemony in Secondary Schools."
2010. Bruce
Baker (Graduate School of Education at Rutgers, The State University
of New Jersey). "Exploring the Intersection of Within and Between
District Disparities in Education."
2009. Andrew
Reschovsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison and Visiting Fellow,
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy). "Modeling School Finance Reform."
2008. Steven
Rivkin (Amherst College). "School Quality and the Black-White
Achievement Gap."
2007. Thomas
Downes (Tufts University). "Alternative Revenue Generation
in Vermont Public Schools: Raising Funds Outside the Tax Base to Support Public
Education."
2006. James
Wyckoff (SUNY-Albany). "How Changes in Entry Requirements
Alter the Teacher Workforce and Affect Student Achievement."
2005.
John Yinger and Jan
Ondrich (Syracuse University). Teacher Quality and Teacher Retention Conference hosted during the Spring
Maxwell Policy Research Symposium.
2005. Leanna
Stiefel (NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public
Service). "Disentangling the Racial Test Score Gap: Probing the
Evidence in a Large Urban School District.”