Education Policy Initiative

CLOSUP and EPI welcome Mayor of Detroit Mike Duggan for a Policy Talks @ the Ford School lecture.

An Education Policy Initiative and School of Education Speaker Series with panelists Chastity Pratt Dawsey, reporter for Bridge Magazine, Diana Preciado, instructional specialist at Detroit Public Schools, Lamont D. Satchel, Chief Innovation Officer at Detroit Public Schools, and Tawana Petty aka Honeycomb, Detroit mother/organizer/author/poet.

A presentation by Brian Jacob, Professor Public Policy and Education.

A presentation by Kevin Stange, Assistant Professor of Public Policy.

A presentation by Gaurav Khanna, PhD candidate in Economics.

A presentation by Peter Bergman, Assistant Professor in Economics of Education, Columbia University.

A presentation by Monica Hernandez, PhD candidate in Economics.

Open to PhD students and faculty engaged in causal inference in education research.

A presentation by Jeff Morenoff, Professor of Sociology, and Catalina Franco, PhD candidate in Economics.

The Ford School and the Education Policy Initiative welcome Janet Napolitano, President of the University of California system and 3rd U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security.

A presentation by Wei Ha, Research Professor of Education, Peking University

Open to PhD students and faculty engaged in causal inference in education research.

Open to PhD students and faculty engaged in causal inference in education research.

Open to PhD students and faculty engaged in causal inference in education research.

A presentation by Julian Hsu, PhD candidate in economics and public policy at the University of Michigan.

A presentation by Katherine Michelmore, postdoctoral fellow at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

Key education leaders will offer their perspective and analysis on the evolving education landscape in Detroit, including the establishment of the Education Achievement Authority in 2012, the surge of charter school enrollment, and the influence of nonprofits in the education sector. Panelists include Daniel Varner, Chief Executive Officer of Excellent Schools Detroit and a member of Michigan's State Board of Education, Tom Willis, Chief Executive Officer of Cornerstone Charter Schools in Detroit, and Veronica Conforme, Interim Chancellor of the Education Achievement Authority. Brian Jacob, co-director of the Education Policy Initiative, will moderate.

A presentation by Peter Hinrichs, research economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

Open to PhD students and faculty engaged in causal inference in education research.

Open to PhD students and faculty engaged in causal inference in education research.

A presentation by Daniel Hubbard, a PhD student in economics at the University of Michigan.

Open to PhD students and faculty engaged in causal inference in education research.

A presentation by Connor Cole, PhD candidate in economics at the University of Michigan.

Open to PhD students and faculty engaged in causal inference in education research.

Open to PhD students and faculty engaged in causal inference in education research, the objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies.

About CIERS The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies. This seminar provides a space for doctoral students and faculty from the School of Education, Ford School of Public Policy, and the Departments of Economics, Sociology, Statistics, and Political Science to discuss current research and receive feedback on works-in-progress.

About CIERS The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies. This seminar provides a space for doctoral students and faculty from the School of Education, Ford School of Public Policy, and the Departments of Economics, Sociology, Statistics, and Political Science to discuss current research and receive feedback on works-in-progress.

About CIERS The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies. This seminar provides a space for doctoral students and faculty from the School of Education, Ford School of Public Policy, and the Departments of Economics, Sociology, Statistics, and Political Science to discuss current research and receive feedback on works-in-progress.

About CIERS The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies. This seminar provides a space for doctoral students and faculty from the School of Education, Ford School of Public Policy, and the Departments of Economics, Sociology, Statistics, and Political Science to discuss current research and receive feedback on works-in-progress.

About CIERS The objective of the Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) is to engage students and faculty from across the university in conversations around education research using various research methodologies. This seminar provides a space for doctoral students and faculty from the School of Education, Ford School of Public Policy, and the Departments of Economics, Sociology, Statistics, and Political Science to discuss current research and receive feedback on works-in-progress.