Education Finance and Accountability Program (EFAP)
The Jerry Miner Lecture Series
Jerry Miner
This annual lecture is sponsored by EFAP and named in
honor of Emeritus Professor Jerry Miner, an EFAP faculty associate who is
widely known for his research in public finance in general and education
finance in particular, and who may be the only person on earth who understands
the New York State Education aid formulas.
April 12, 2018 - Jerry Miner
Lecture Series
Susan
Dynarski is a professor of public policy, education and
economics at the University of Michigan, where she holds appointments at the
Gerald R.
Ford School of Public Policy, School of Education, Department of
Economics and Institute for Social Research and serves as co-director of the
Education
Policy Initiative.
“Increasing
Economic Diversity at a Flagship University: Results from a Large-Scale,
Randomized Trial”
The Lecture will be held:
3:30-5:00 pm
426 Eggers Hall
CPR Large Conference Room
April 27, 2017 - Jerry Miner
Lecture Series
Scott Imberman Michigan
State University, Department of Educational Administration
“The Roles of Neonatal Health and Race in
Special Education Identification."
April 28,
2016 - Jerry Miner Lecture Series
Richard Murnane from Harvard University.
“The Consequences of
Educational Reform in Chile: Lessons for the U.S. School Choice Debate.”
April 9, 2015 - Jerry Miner
Lecture Series
Douglas
Harris
(Associate Professor of Economics, University Endowed Chair in Public
Education, Director, Education Research Alliance for New
Orleans, Tulane
University)
Dr. Harris
will present the results from several of his papers on the question: What have
been the effects of the New Orleans school reforms? The papers
can be
found here.
April 24, 2014 - Jerry Miner
Lecture Series
Charles Clotfelter (Duke University)
"Colleges
and Their Customers: The Market for Baccalaureate Education in The Age of Merit
and Disparity"
April 26, 2013 - Jerry Miner Lecture Series
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"
April 5, 2012 - Jerry Miner Lecture Series
Henry Levin (Teachers College, Columbia
University)
"The
Utility and Need for Incorporating Non-Cognitive Skills into Large Scale
Educational Assessments"
March 10, 2011- Jerry Miner Lecture Series
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"
March 11, 2010- Jerry Miner
Lecture Series
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"
Papers:
"Premature
celebrations: The persistence of inter-district funding disparities"
"Rearranging Deck Chairs in Dallas: Contextual Constraints and Within
District Resource Allocation in Urban Texas School Districts
April 16, 2009- Jerry Miner Lecture Series
Andrew Reschovsky (University
of Wisconsin-Madison and Visiting Fellow, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)
"Modeling
School Finance Reform"
March 27, 2008- Jerry Miner Lecture Series
Steven Rivkin (Amherst
College)
"School Quality and the
Black-White Achievement Gap"
April 5, 2007- Jerry Miner Lecture Series
Thomas Downes (Tufts
University)
"Alternative
Revenue Generation in Vermont Public Schools: Raising Funds Outside the Tax
Base to Support Public Education"
April 13, 2006- Jerry Miner Lecture Series
James Wyckoff
(SUNY-Albany)
"How
Changes in Entry Requirements Alter the Teacher Workforce and Affect Student
Achievement"
May 20-21,
2005 Teacher Quality and Teacher Retention
John Yinger and Jan Ondrich of Syracuse University hosted the conference during the Spring Maxwell Policy
Research Symposium
April 28, 2005 - Jerry Miner Lecture Series
Leanna
Stiefel (NYU Wagner
Graduate School of Public Service)
"Disentangling
the Racial Test Score Gap: Probing the Evidence in a Large Urban School
District”