Recent evidence demonstrates that the academic achievement gap between children from high- and low-income families has risen substantially in recent decades in the US, as has the disparity in college completion by family income. Indeed, the income achievement gap is now much larger than the black-white achievement gap, a reversal from the pattern 50 years ago, when black-white educational disparities dominated socioeconomic disparities.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 - 12:00am to Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 12:00am
The Juliana W. and William Foss Thompson Professor of Education & Society, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
Topic: U.S. High School Graduation Rates: Patterns and Explanations
Monday, May 14, 2012 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
Topic: Out of Reach: Place, Poverty, and the New American Welfare State
Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Topic: Commemorate the fifth anniversary of the Getting Down to Facts project
Thursday, May 10, 2012 - 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Professor of Economics, Duke University
Topic: What Happens After Enrollment? An Analysis of the Time Path of Racial Differences in GPA and Major Choice
Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Topic: Inequality and Education: What can (and should) schools do?
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - 5:30pm to 8:30pm
The John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn Building, Stanford University
President of Break the Curve Consulting
Topic: School Inspections in a Strengthened Accountability System
Friday, April 27, 2012 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Associate Professor of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Topic: Do the Effects of Early Childhood Programs Differ by Gender? A Meta-Analysis
Thursday, April 26, 2012 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Topic: Postsecondary and Career Readiness: Understanding Differences and Similarities Through the Lens of the Health Sciences
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 11:30am to 1:00pm
Professor of Political Science & Education, Columbia University
Topic: The End of Educational Exceptionalism in The United States: How School Reform Decisions Are Being Reabsorbed into General Purpose Governance and Politics
Thursday, April 19, 2012 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
