Education Policy Workshops
The Bush School's Education Policy Workshops provide an opportunity for noted academics to discuss their current research in the field.
Upcoming Events
Past Events
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The Center for Nonprofits & Philanthropy invites all students to a lunch talk titled “Exploring the Sector: Nonprofits in Education.” Experts from the Greater Texas Foundation, Educate Texas’ Philanthropy Advocates, and the Partner for Arts Integration Resource team from the Springer Opera House will speak as a panel. Students will be able to ask questions of the panelists before the event.
The speakers for this event included: Tessa Pennington - Project Associate, Greater Texas Foundation Becky Calahan - Deputy Director of Educate Texas’ Philanthropy Advocates Sally Banker - Education Director, Springer Opera House and Director of the PAIR Program. Beth Reeves - Adjunct Professor, Columbus State University DB Woolbright - Associate Director of Education, Springer Opera House |
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The Mosbacher Institute invites you to join us for an Education Policy Workshop featuring Dr. Matthew Chingos, Vice President for Education Data and Policy at the Urban Institute, who will speak about his research and its policy implications.
Matthew M. Chingos leads a team of scholars at the Urban Institute who undertake policy-relevant research on issues from pre-kindergarten through postsecondary education and create tools such as Urban’s Education Data Portal. Chingos is coauthor of Game of Loans: The Rhetoric and Reality of Student Debtand Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America’s Public Universities. He has testified before Congress and his work has been featured in media outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and National Public Radio. Before joining Urban, Chingos was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He received a BA in government and economics and a PhD in government from Harvard University. The Mosbacher Institute’s Education Policy Workshops feature noted academics who are invited to discuss their current research. The workshops are designed to increase understanding of the research underlying current education policy and how those policies can affect the nation’s economic future. |
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February 26, 2021
Unpacking Resiliency: How the Intersectionality of Educational Policies and the Carceral State Govern Minority Lives 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST Please join us on February 26 from 3 to 4 p.m. via Zoom as Dr. Joy Thomas presents “Unpacking Resiliency: How the Intersectionality of Educational Policies and the Carceral State Govern Minority Lives.”
Dr. Thomas has made it her mission to uplift and empower communities of color, which are often disenfranchised and marginalized, by providing powerful learning as an educator, engaging in community activism, and interrogating and interrupting the school-to-prison pipeline. The February 26 event is hosted by the Bush School Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee. |
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March 3, 2020
My Brother’s Keeper? The Effects of Targeted Educational Supports 5:30pm CST George Bush Presidential Library & Museum Orientation Theater Please join us for an Education Policy Workshop featuring Dr. Thomas Dee from Stanford University who will speak about his research and its policy implications.
Dr. Dee is the Barnett Family Professor at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Education and the Faculty Director of the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities. His research focuses largely on the use of quantitative methods to inform contemporary policy debates. His recent studies have examined incentive and accountability-based reforms, the stimulus-funded school-turnaround initiatives, and curricular reforms in the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). |
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April 23, 2019
Education Policy Workshop 5:30pm CDT George Bush Presidential Library & Museum Inequality in Education, What Have We Learned and How Can We Fix It? FEATURING Susan Dynarski Professor of Economics, Education, and Public Policy University of Michigan 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. She also serves as co-director of the Education Policy Initiative and the Michigan Education Data Center. Her research focuses on inequality in education, the effectiveness of charter schools, the optimal design of financial aid, and the effect of high school reforms.
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February 15, 2017
Education Policy Workshop 5:30pm CST George Bush Presidential Library & Museum Orientation Theater More than a Nudge: The Case of READY4K Dr. Susanna Loeb Barnett Family Professor of Education, Stanford University Please join us to hear Dr. Susanna Loeb speak about READY4K, a text-messaging curriculum for parents of preschoolers that targets the behavioral barriers to engaged parenting.
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February 23, 2016
Education Policy Workshop: Instruction Isn’t Enough: How Academic Success is Shaped by What Happens Outside of School The Mosbacher Institute’s second Education Policy Workshop featured Dr. Amy Ellen Schwartz, the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and the Director of the Institute for Education and Social Policy at New York University, on Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Dr. Schwartz spoke at the George Bush Presidential Library & Museum to a standing room only crowd about the impact factors beyond classroom instruction have on the educational outcomes of students. Previous reforms including decreasing class sizes, professional development, curriculum writing, and rewriting finance formulas have had some success in improving student outcomes and addressing inequity, but classroom instruction is only a part of children’s days. What happens outside of the classroom is also very important to their holistic development.
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February 1, 2016
Education Policy Workshop: Taken by Storm: The Effects of the Post Katrina New Orleans School Reforms on Students’ Academic Outcomes The Mosbacher Institute hosted its inaugural Education Policy Workshop with Dr. Douglas Harris, a professor of economics at Tulane University and the director of the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, speaking about the effects of the post-Katrina New Orleans school reforms on students’ academic outcomes. After the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina, the New Orleans school system underwent major reforms which appear to have resulted in a significant boost to student achievement. However, Dr. Harris reminded the standing-room-only audience that correlation is not causation. His research has been looking at the available data to determine what impact the reforms actually have had.
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