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EdPolicyForward engages in the study and analysis of a wide range of important educational topics including:

  • College access and affordability
  • Dual enrollment and school-to-college transitions
  • Early childhood education
  • Education evaluation and assessment
  • Educator labor markets
  • Educator preparation
  • Higher education accountability
  • International education
  • K-12 accountability
  • Online learning
  • School accountability
  • School finance reform
  • School segregation
  • STEM education
  • Teacher effectiveness
  • Teacher leadership
  • Teacher mobility

EdPolicyForward Research Workshop

Academic Year 2024-25

Date Time Location Virtual Access Presenter Topic
September 19, 2024 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual Register Morgan Polikoff
(University of Southern California)		 What’s Driving Opposition to Race- and LGBTQ-Related Content in Schools? Evidence from Two National Surveys
October 17, 2024 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual Register Erica Harbatkin
(Florida State University)		 Should I Stay or Should I Go (Later)? Teacher intentions and turnover in low-performing schools and districts before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
November 14, 2024 1 pm - 2:30 pm Thompson Hall 2007 (Fairfax campus) Register Najeeb Shafiq
(University of Pittsburgh)		 Perceived returns and regrets among college graduates
February 13, 2025 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual Register Julie Cohen
(University of Virginia)		 Experimental Evidence about Modularizing Content in Teacher Education
March 6, 2025 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual Register Susan Dynarski
(Harvard University)		 The Power of Certainty Experimental Evidence on the Effective Design of Free Tuition Policies
April 10, 2025 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual Register Jennifer Jennings
(Princeton University)		 How Information Works: Evidence from a Mixed-Methods School Information Experiment in New York City
May 8, 2025 5 pm - 6:30 pm Virtual Register Beth Davis & Natalie Truong, Alyssa Barone Critical Analysis of the Invisibility of Immigrant-Origin Students in Public Data Systems, & An Exploratory Analysis Using Machine Learning to Modify Teacher Value-added Models

Academic Year 2023-24

Fall 2023

Date Time Location Virtual Access Presenter Topic
September 21, 2023 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual Only Register Dan Goldhaber
(University of Washington)		 How Well Do Professional Reference Ratings Predict Teacher Performance?
October 26, 2023 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual Only Register Morgaen Donaldson
(University of Connecticut)		 Following the Money: Investigating Variations in the Design and Implementation of School District ARP-ESSER Plans
November 2, 2023 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual Only Register Jonathan Collins
(Brown University)		 Does Meeting Style Matter? The Effect of Public Deliberation on School Board Meeting Participation
December 7, 2023 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual Only Register Jason Grissom
(Vanderbilt University)		 A Bad Commute: Travel Time to Work Predicts Teacher Turnover and Other Workplace Outcomes

Spring 2024

Date Time Location Virtual Access Presenter Topic
January 25, 2024 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual Only Register Anna Egalite
(North Carolina State University)		 The Role of Teacher-Student Ethnoracial Matching in Student Identification for Special Education Services
February 22, 2024 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual Only Register Heather L. Schwartz
(RAND Corporation)		 Surveying Educators About Hot Topics in Education, and the Results That Surprised Us
March 21, 2024 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual Only Register Christopher Cleveland
(Boston University)		 A Text-as-Data Approach to Understanding Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) at Scale
April 18, 2024 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual Only Register Rebecca Jacobsen
(Michigan State University)		 When Losing is Winning: The Lasting Impact of the Politics of Disruption
May 16, 2024 3:30 pm - 5 pm Van Metre Hall 716 Register Natalie Troung and Sara Townsend
(GMU Students)		 "Data disaggregation and the inadequacies of pan-ethnic inferences: An exploration of Southeast Asian American experiences in K-12 education" AND "How Local Education Policymakers Define the Teacher Turnover Problem: A Case Study"

Academic Year 2022-23

Fall 2022

Date Time Location (in person) Virtual Access Presenter Topic
September 22, 2022 2 pm - 3:30 pm Van Metre Hall 468 Register (Zoom) Doug Harris
(Tulane University)		 The Effects of COVID on Educational Attainment
October 20, 2022 11 am - 12:30 pm Van Metre Hall 468 Register (Zoom) Cara Jackson
(Abt Associates)		 Democratizing the Development of Evidence
November 10, 2022 11 am - 12:30 pm Van Metre Hall 468 Register (Zoom) Samantha Viano
(George Mason University)		 The oversimplification of the Black-White high school graduation gap: Examining policy guidance and student outcomes through critical structural capital analysis
December 8, 2022 2 pm - 3:30 pm Virtual only Register (Zoom) Travis Bristol
(University of California, Berkeley)		 Developing and Retaining Teachers of Color

Spring 2023

Date Time Location (in person) Virtual Access Presenter Topic
January 19, 2023 11 am - 12:30 pm Van Metre Hall 468 Register (Zoom) Luis Rodriguez
(NYU)		 Well, What About Teachers? Exploring Relationships Between Parent Involvement and Trust With Teacher Job Satisfaction and Retention
February 23, 2023 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual only Register (Zoom) David Blazar
(University of Maryland)		 Differential Responses to Teacher Evaluation Incentives
March 16, 2023 11 am - 12:30 pm Van Metre Hall 467 Register (Zoom) Melissa Lyon
(SUNY Albany)		 The Rise and Fall of the Teaching Profession: Prestige, Interest, Preparation, and Satisfaction over the Last Half Century
April 20, 2023 11 am - 12:30 pm Virtual only Register (Zoom) Julia Burdick-Will
(Johns Hopkins University)		 Anywhere But Here: Neighborhood Violence and Local School Preferences in Baltimore City
May 11, 2023 3:30 pm - 5 pm Van Metre Hall 716 Register (Zoom) PhD Student Colloquium: Kevin Monnin (George Mason University) and Beth Davis (George Mason University) TBD

Academic Year 2021-22

Fall 2021

Date Time Location (in person) Virtual Access Presenter Topic
September 9, 2021 11 am - 12:30 pm Van Metre Hall 322   Susanna Loeb
(Brown University)		 Home-School Bridges: The Effects of Teacher-Family Visitations on Student Engagement and Learning
October 14, 2021 11 am - 12:30 pm Van Metre Hall 322 Register (Zoom) Brian Gill
(Mathematica) 		Measuring educational performance for improvement: A framework for diagnostic use of data
November 18, 2021 11 am - 12:30 pm Van Metre Hall 322 Register (Zoom) Seth Hunter (George Mason University) and Matthew Steinberg
(George Mason University)		 Do You Observe What I Observe? Exploring the Discordance in Teacher and Evaluator Ratings of Teacher Performance
December 9, 2021 11 am - 12:30 pm Van Metre Hall 322 Register (Zoom) Jing Liu
(University of Maryland)		 From Referrals to Suspensions: New Evidence on Racial Disparities in Exclusionary Discipline

Spring 2022

Date Time Location (in person) Virtual Access Presenter Topic
January 27, 2022 11 am - 12:30 pm Van Metre Hall 322 Register (Zoom) Constance Lindsay
(University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)		 A Scalable Empathic-Mindset Intervention Reduces Group Disparities in School Suspensions
February 24, 2022 11 am - 12:30 pm Van Metre Hall 322 Register (Zoom) David Houston
(George Mason University)		 COVID-19 School Closures and Public Support for Educators
March 24, 2022 11 am - 12:30 pm Online Register (Zoom) Matt Chingos
(Urban Institute)		 Democratizing Education Data and Policy Analysis
April 21, 2022 11 am - 12:30 pm Online Register (Zoom) Beth Schueler
(University of Virginia)		 Does Policy Debate Improve Academic Achievement? Evidence from Boston
May 12, 2022 11 am - 12:30 pm Van Metre Hall 468 Register (Zoom) Katherine Bowser
(George Mason University)
and
Elizabeth Davis
(George Mason University)		 TBD