Previous Lectures
November 16, 2009
Professor Sean Kelly and Heather Price
The Correlates of Tracking Policy: Opportunity Hoarding, Status Competition, or a Technical-Functional Explanation?
Professor Kelly is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in CREO at the University of Notre Dame.
Ms. Price is graduate student with CREO.
November 9, 2009
Professor Richard Arum
Limited Learning in U.S. Colleges: Findings from the CLA Longitudinal Study
Dr. Arum is Professor of Sociology, New York University
November 2, 2009
Dr. Marisa Cannata
Teachers’ Job Choices, Qualifications, and Working Conditions in Schools of Choice
Dr. Cannata is Associate Director, National Center on School Choice, Vanderbilt University
October 26, 2009
Dr. Megan Andrew
Evidence on the Intergenerational Transmission of Mother's Education: Quantities, Qualities, and Credentials
Dr. Andrew is the Robert Wood Johnson Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
October 12, 2009
Professor Marc Stein
Neighborhood and School Effects on Seasonal Inequalities in Student Academic Achievement
Dr. Stein is on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University
October 5, 2009
Professors Margaret Brinig and Nicole Garnett
Catholic Schools, Urban Neighborhoods, and Education Reform
Professor Brinig is the Fritz Duda Family Chair in Law at the University of Notre Dame and the Associate Dean for Faculty Research.
Professor Garnett is a Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame.
September 28, 2009
Professor Josipa Roksa
Why Students Don't Graduate: A Life-Course Explanation of Inequality in Higher Education
Professor Roksa is Assistant Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) Education at the University of Virginia
September 7, 2009
Dr. Tamo Chattopadhay
Student Social Capital: An Exploratory Study from Brazil
Dr. Chattopadhay is a Post-Doctoral Teaching Scholar at the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame
April 20, 2009
Robert Fishman and Omar Lizardo
April 6, 2009
Beth Covay, Heather Price, Guillermo Montt-Armanet, and Joe Workman
Student Presentations
March 30, 2009
Charles Bidwell
Hierarchies, Markets, and Collegia: Faculties in the Social Organization of American High Schools
Dr. Bidwell is the William Claude Reavis Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
March 23, 2009
Daniel Lapsley
A Survivor Analysis of Student Mobility and Retention in Indiana Charter Schools
Dr. Lapsley is the ACE Collegiate Professor of Psychology, University of Notre Dame
March 2, 2009
Sueuk Park
Changes in Educational Expectations of Adolescents: 1992 and 2004 Cohorts
February 16, 2009
Mark Berends
Examining Differences in School Types: The What Makes Schools Work Project
Professor Berends is the Director or CREO.
February 9, 2009
Maureen Hallinan and Warren Kubitschek
The Catholic School Advantage and the Common School Ideal Revisited
Dr. Hallinan is the William P.
and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology, and director of the
Center for Research on Educational Opportunity.
Warren Kubitschek is a technical specialist in CREO.
February 2, 2009
Organizing Schools for Improvement: A video presentation of Tony Bryk's keynote address at Loyola Marymount, December 2008, followed by discussion
January 26, 2009
Fr. Timothy Scully
A Conversation on the Future of Catholic Schools
Rev. Scully is the director of the Institute for
Educational Initiatives.
January 19, 2009
Maureen Hallinan
Organizing Instructional Time in the South Bend Schools
Dr. Hallinan is the William P.
and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology, and director of the
Center for Research on Educational Opportunity.
December 8, 2008
Stefanie Estes, Ellen Childs, and Sara Skiles
Student Workshop
Mrs. Estes, Ms. Childs, and Ms. Skiles are graduate students in the Department of Sociology.
November 24, 2008
Heather Price, Joseph Workman, and Guillermo Montt-Armanet
Student Workshop
Ms. Price and Mr. Workman are graduate students in the Department of Sociology.
Mr. Montt is a research assistant for Professor Carbonaro and a graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
November 18, 2008
Dr. Julie Braungart-Rieker
Center for Children and Families: An overview
Dr. Julie Braungart-Rieker, Bill Evans, Nicole McNeil, Julie Turner, Darcia Narvaez, and Brad Gibson: A discussion of their current research.
Dr. Braungart-Rieker is Director of the Center for Children and Families.
November 17, 2008
Fr. Ron Nuzzi, Jim Frabutt, and Anthony Holter
Faith, Finances, and Future: The Notre Dame Study of U.S.Pastors
Fr. Nuzzi is Director of The Mary Ann Remick Leadership Program in the Alliance for Catholic Education.
Mr. Frabutt is Associate Professional Specialist, Alliance for Catholic Education.
Mr. Holter is Assistant Professional Specialist, Master of Education program.
November 8, 2008
CREO Fall Conference: Understanding Teacher Effects on Educational Outcomes
November 3, 2008
William Carbonaro, Beth Covay, and Warren Kubitschek
Selection Effects
Professor Carbonaro has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO and the Department of Sociology.
Mr. Kubitschek is associate research specialist in CREO.
Ms. Covay is a research assistant in CREO and graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
October 27, 2008
Sean Kelly and William Carbonaro
Tracking, Teacher Expectations, and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Discrepant Course Taking Models
Professor Kelly has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO and the Department of Sociology.
Professor Carbonaro has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO and the Department of Sociology.
October 14, 2008
CREO Forum on Research on Catholic Education
Maureen Hallinan, William Carbonaro, Sean Kelly, and Warren Kubitschek
Whither the Catholic School Advantage?
Dr. Hallinan is the William P.
and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology, and director of the
Center for Research on Educational Opportunity.
Mr. Kubitschek is associate research specialist in CREO.
October 13, 2008
Sonia Nieto
Culture, Language, and Learning and the Challenges of the Twenty-first Century
Dr. Nieto is Professor Emerita, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
October 6, 2008
Bill Evans
Income Inequality, the Median Voter, and the Support for Public Education
Dr. Evans is Professor of Economics and Econometrics
September 29, 2008
Sr. Mary Paul McCaughey
Preaching to the Choir: Catholic Education’s Internal Stakeholders
Sr. McCaughey is the Superintendent of Schools, Archdiocese of Chicago.
September 22, 2008
Beth Covay, Sara Skiles, and Michael Strand
Student Workshop
Ms. Covay is a research assistant in CREO and graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
Ms. Skiles and Mr. Strand are graduate students in the Department of Sociology.
September 15, 2008
Su Park
The Effects of Student Characteristics and School Factors on the Transition to Post-secondary Education
Dr. Park is a Post-Doctoral Researcher in CREO.
September 8, 2008
Maureen Hallinan and Warren Kubitschek
Sociological Theory and Data Analyses
Dr. Hallinan is the William P.
and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology, and director of the
Center for Research on Educational Opportunity.
Mr. Kubitschek is associate research specialist in CREO.
September 1, 2008
Maureen Hallinan
CREO's Mission and Research
Dr. Hallinan is the William P.
and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology, and director of the
Center for Research on Educational Opportunity.
April 28, 2008
Beth Covay
Composition Matters: The Relationship between Race and School Composition in Explaining the Black-White Gap
Brandy Ellison
Does Getting A's Really Matter? A Conceptualization of Grades as a Measure of Educational Outcomes
Ms. Covay and Ms. Ellison are research assistants in CREO and graduate students in the Department of Sociology.
April 21, 2008
Catherine Liu
Long Term Influence of Friends on Adolescents’ Academic Outcomes
Stefanie Estes
Adolescent Employment and School Problem Behaviors
Sara Skiles
How I'll Spend My Summer Vacation: Three Projects in Formation
Ms. Liu and
Ms. Estes are research assistants in CREO
and graduate students in the Department of Sociology.
Ms. Skiles is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
April 14, 2008
Christina Baker
Benefits of Art Involvement for African American College Students
Dr. Baker is a visiting professor in CREO and the Department of Sociology.
April 7, 2008
Guillermo Montt
School level variations of socioeconomic background on educational achievement: a comparative analysis
Michael Strand
Are School Activities Racialized? Measuring Meaning Structures in Schools
Deb Kraklow
Family Structure Effects on Academic Achievement
Mr. Montt is a research assistant for Professor Carbonaro and a graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
Ms. Kraklow is a research assistant in CREO and a graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
Mr. Strand is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
March 31, 2008
Maureen Hallinan
Teacher Influences on Student Attachment to School
Maureen Hallinan, Warren Kubitschek and Catherine Liu
Student Interracial Relations and School Communities
Dr. Hallinan is the William P.
and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology, and director of the
Center for Research on Educational Opportunity.
Mr. Kubitschek is associate research specialist in CREO.
Ms. Liu is a research assistant in CREO and a graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
March 17, 2008
Prudence Carter
Boundaries in Schools: How Some Educational Contexts Enable Students to Cross More Than Others
Dr. Carter is associate professor of Education at Stanford University.
February 25, 2008
Father Randall C. Rentner, C.S.C.
Lay Leadership and Culture in Catholic High Schools
Father Rentner is a Visiting Fellow with the I.E.I. He is doctoral candidate at Teachers College, Columbia University , in New York City.
February 18, 2008
Bill Carbonaro with Brandy Ellison
Explaining Gender Gaps in The College Pipeline
Professor Carbonaro has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO and the Department of Sociology.
Ms. Ellison is
graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
February 11, 2008
Lincoln Quillian
Residential Segregation and Inequality in Educational Attainment
Dr. Quillian is associate professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University.
January 28, 2008
Sean Kelly
The Hollywood Teachers' Perspective on Authority
Professor Kelly has a joint appointment in
IEI-CREO and
the Department
of Sociology.
November 26, 2007
William Trent
Revisiting Equality of Educational Opportunity in the Wake of MEREDITH
Dr. Trent is professor of Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
November 19, 2007
Jon Hill
The Role of Higher Education in the Maintenance and Production of Religious Identity and Practice
Mr. Hill is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
November 12, 2007
Bill Reese
The Origins of Academic Standards in the Public Schools
Dr. Reese is professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
November 5, 2007
Mark Berends
Instructional Conditions in Charter Schools and Students' Mathematics Gains
Dr. Berends is an associate professor of Public Policy and Education in the Department of Leadership, Policy, and Organizations at Vanderbilt University. He currently serves as Director of the National Center on School Choice.
October 29, 2007
Elizabeth McGhee Hassrick
Shaping Urban Classrooms: Middle Class Parents as Surveillance Coordinators
Elizabeth is currently a graduate student at the University of Chicago and will begin a post-doctoral program in the sociology department there beginning in January 2008.
October 18, 2007
Adam Gamoran
Standards-Based Reform and the Poverty Gap: Lessons for No Child Left Behind
Dr. Gamoran is a professor of Sociology and Educational Policy Studies and Director of Wisconsin Center for Education Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
October 15, 2007
Andy Porter
Education is a Context for University-based Interdisciplinary Research: Observations from Experience
Dr. Porter is the Dean of the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.
October 12, 2007
Charles Clotfelter
School Desegregation, 'Tipping,' and Private School Enrollment
Dr. Clotfelter is the Z. Smith Reynolds professor of public policy and professor of economics and law at Duke University.
April 30, 2007
Katie
Bennett
Data-Driven Professional
Development: What Stats on Cohorts 5-10 Can Teach Us about the ACE
Endeavor
Ms. Bennett is a research assistant at the
National
Opinion
Research
Center
.
April 18, 2007
Fr. Andrew Greeley
Is The Whole World, Notre Dame Included, Secularized?
Fr. Greeley is a professor of sociology at the University of Arizona
and a research associate with the National Opinion Research Center
(NORC) at the University of Chicago.
April 2, 2007
Abigail Wozniak
The Casual Impact of
College Education on Geographic Mobility
Dr. Wozniak is a professor in the Department of
Economics.
March 26, 2007
Deborah Kraklow
Translating Montessori
Philosophy into Experience
Ms. Kraklow is a graduate student in the
Sociology Department and CREO.
March
19, 2007
Cecilia Rouse
Technology's Edge: The
Educational Benefits of Computer Aided Instruction
Dr. Rouse is a Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and
Director of the Education Research Section and Industrial Relations
Section at the Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs,
Princeton University.
March 5, 2007
Miguel Centeno
The Search for the Good Society and the Failure of Liberalism in the Iberian World
Miguel Angel Centeno is Professor of Sociology and
International Affairs and Director of the Princeton Institute for
International and Regional Studies. From 1997-2004 he also served as
Master of Wilson College at Princeton.
February 26, 2007
Brian Barrett
Religious Participation and
the Transformation of Urban Students' 'Habitus'
Dr. Barrett is a postdoctoral research
associate in CREO.
February
19, 2007
Gail Mulligan
An overview of the National Center for Education Statistics and Education Data from the National Household Education Surveys Program
Dr. Mulligan is a statistican at the National Center for Education Statistics.
February 12, 2007
Dan Lapsley
A Longitudinal Analysis of
Academic Achievement in Indiana Charter Schools
Dr. Lapsley is a professor in the Psychology Department.
February 5, 2007
Christin DePouw
Negotiating Race, Navigating Schools: Situating Hmong American
Educational Experiences
Dr. DePouw is a postdoctoral associate in
the Institute for Education Initiatives.
January 29, 2007
Rory McVeigh
Promoting 100 Percent
American Schools: The Ku Klux Klan's Support for Public Education in the 1920s
Dr. McVeigh is an associate professor in the Sociology Department.
January 22, 2007
Sean Kelly
Instructional
Differences across School Sector: Evidence from the Chicago
School
Study
Professor Kelly has a joint appointment in
IEI-CREO and
the Department
of Sociology.
December 4, 2006
Deborah Kraklow
How Far Can I
Go? Effects of Family Structure on
Student Beliefs about their Future Educational Attainment
Ms. Kraklow is a research assistant in CREO and a
graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
November 20, 2006
Charles Bidwell
The School as a Formal
Organization: The Genesis of an Idea
Dr. Bidwell is the William Claude Reavis Professor
Emeritus at the University of Chicago.
November 27, 2006
Tim Ready
Latino Education: Building a
Research Agenda to Improve Student Outcomes
Dr. Ready is the director of research and an associate professional
specialist at the Institute for Latino Studies.
November 6, 2006
Alex Kotlowitz
The Things They Carry:
Growing Up Poor in the World's Wealthiest Nation
Dr. Kotlowitz is a visiting professor in American
Studies.
October 30, 2006
Sean Kelly and Laura Monczunski
Overcoming the Volatility in
School-Level Gain Scores: A New Approach to Identifying value-added
with cross-sectional Data
Bill Carbonaro and Maryann Erigha
Who Goes to College?: Linking
Tracking to Post-Secondary Enrollment
Professor Kelly has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO and
the Department
of Sociology.
Professor Carbonaro has a joint appointment in
IEI-CREO and the
Department of Sociology.
Ms. Monczunski is an undergraduate in Economics and Anthropology.
Ms. Erigha is an undergraduate in the Sociology
Department.
October 23, 2006
William Carbonaro
Sector Differences in Student
Experiences and Achievement: An Update
Professor Carbonaro has a joint appointment in
IEI-CREO and the
Department of Sociology.
October 9, 2006
Michal Kurlaender
Evaluating the Effects of
School Desegregation: Legal Challenges and New Research
Dr. Kurlaender is an assistant professor in the School of
Education at the University of California-Davis.
October 2, 2006
Brian Barrett
A City of Good Neighbors: Students' Access to and Activation of Social Capital in the Buffalo Public Schools
Dr. Barrett is a postdoctoral research associate at CREO.
September 25, 2006
Marianne Surges
Montessori: Guiding the
Development of the Person the Child is Meant To Be
Ms. Surges is the director of the Montessori Center in South Bend.
September 18, 2006
Stefanie DeLuca
Switching Social Contexts: Housing Mobility, Neighborhood Effects and Educational Outcomes
Dr. DeLuca is a visiting assistant professor at CREO.
September 11, 2006
Regina Deil-Amen
Struggling to Stay: Developing a Framework for Persistence among At-Risk College Students
Dr. Deil-Amen is a visiting assistant professor at CREO.
September 4, 2006
Dan Driscoll
Developing the Potential for Peace
Mr. Driscoll is the principal at Good Shepherd Montessori School, South Bend.
May 1, 2006
Amy Stuart Wells
From Welfare Queens to Soft Bigotry: The Parallels between Welfare Reform and NCLB
To be held at 234 Grace Hall, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Dr. Wells is a professor of sociology and education at Teachers
College, Columbia University.
April 21, 2006
Sean Kelly
Student Effort and High Marks
Sociology Department Colloquium, Flanner G-20
Professor Kelly has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO and the Department
of Sociology.
April 3, 2006
Elizabeth Covay
Beyond School Walls
Keirya Langkamp
Race Matters: Teachers'
Evaluations of Student Behavior
Ms. Covay and Ms. Langkamp are research assistants in CREO and graduate
students in the Department of Sociology.
March 27, 2006
Bob Brenneman
Guerrillas or Conservationists? Continuity and Social Change in Higher Education
Mr. Brenneman is a research assistant in CREO and a
graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
March 20, 2006
David Shernoff
Examining the Evidence for an Engagement-Achievement Paradox among High
School Students
Dr. Shernoff is an assistant professor in the Department
of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations at Northern
Illinois University.
March 3, 2006
Christian Smith
The National Study of Youth and Religion
Dr. Smith is the Stuart Chapin Distinguished Professor of Sociology at
the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
February 27, 2006
Joe Urbany
Dr. Urbany is an IEI Fellow and a professor in the Marketing Department at the Mendoza College of Business.
February 24, 2006
Maureen T. Hallinan and Warren Kubitschek
A Look at Catholic and Public School Achievement in a Large Urban Setting
Dr. Hallinan is the William P.
and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology, and director of the
Center for Research on Educational Opportunity.
Mr. Kubitschek is an associate research specialist in CREO.
January 30, 2006
William Carbonaro
Socializing Students: Do Early School Experiences Matter?
Professor Carbonaro has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO and the
Department of Sociology.
January 18, 2005
Daniel McFarland
Bowling Young: Political Socialization of Youth in America
Dr. McFarland is an Assistant Professor of Education and Sociology at
Stanford University.
November 28, 2005
Joyce Johnstone
Teaching in Catholic Schools: Just How Different Is It?
Dr. Johnstone is the director of Educational Outreach,
Alliance for Catholic Education, and a fellow of the Institute for
Educational Initiatives.
November 21, 2005
Xiaoyong Chai
Preferences Reversals
Dr. Chai is a visiting assistant professor in the
Department of Sociology. He was the last student to receive his Ph.D. in sociology under James Coleman's program at the University of Chicago.
November 14, 2005
Mary Juzwik
Narrative Research on Classroom Instruction
Dr. Juzwik is assistant professor of language and
literacy at Michigan State University.
November 2, 2005
Joan Talbert
Developing Teacher Learning Communities in Schools: Prospects, Problems, and Processes of Change
Dr. Talbert is senior research scholar and Co-Director of
the Center for Research on the Context of Teaching (CRC) at Stanford
University.
October 24, 2005
James Rosenbaum
Can Lower Tracks Improve Opportunity?
Dr. Rosenbaum is a professor in the Institute for Policy
Research, Education Social Policy at Northwestern University.
October 10, 2005
Sean Kelly
A Discussion of Dialogic Instruction
Professor Kelly has a joint appointment in
IEI-CREO and the
Department of Sociology.
October 3, 2005
Xiaoyong Chai
The Making of James Coleman
Dr. Chai is a visiting assistant professor in the
Sociology Department at the University of Notre Dame. He was the last
student to receive his Ph.D. in sociology under James Coleman's program
at the University of Chicago.
September 26, 2005
Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C.
An Open Conversation on the Work of the Institute for Educational Initiatives
Rev. Scully is the director of the Institute for
Educational Initiatives.
September 19, 2009
Sean Kelly
Sociological Research on
Classroom Instruction
Professor Kelly has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO and the
Department of Sociology.
September 12, 2005
Maureen Hallinan
Why Students Like School - If They Like School
Dr. Hallinan is the William P.
and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology, and director of the
Center for Research on Educational Opportunity.
April 25, 2005
Michael Emerson
Does Attending an Interracial School as a Child Lead to More Racially Diverse Social
Networks as an Adult?
Dr. Emerson is a professor in the Department of Sociology and director
of the DuBois Center for the Advanced Study of Religion and Race.
April 18, 2005
Robert Dreeben
Is Professionalism a Useful
Idea? The Case of Teaching
Dr. Dreeben is professor emeritus at The
University of Chicago. He is one of the most widely read and
influential sociologists of education and author of several books,
including the classic, On What is
Learned in School (1968).
April 1, 2005
Alejandro Portes
Segmented Assimilation on the
Ground: The Second Generation in Early Adulthood
Dr. Portes is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor
of Sociology and director of the Center for Migration and Development
at Princeton University.
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Latino
Studies.
March 18, 2005
Hilda Borko
Professional Development and
Teacher Learning: Mapping the Terrain
Dr. Borko is a professor of education and chair of the
Educational Psychology Program Area at the School of Education,
University of Colorado at Boulder.
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
March 14, 2005
Brandy Ellison
The Impact of High School
Experiences on the Likelihood of College Graduation by Gender
Ms. Ellison is a research assistant in CREO and a
graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
February 28, 2005
Adam Gamoran
Facing the Future: Dilemmas
and Challenges of Leaving No Child Behind
Dr. Gamoran is professor of Sociology and Educational
Policy Studies, and director of the Wisconsin Center for Education
Research.
February 25, 2005
Gary Alan Fine
The Chaining of Social
Problems: Solutions and Unintended Consequences in the Age of Betrayal
Dr. Fine is a professor at Northwestern University.
February 21, 2005
Robert Hauser
As We Age: The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
Dr. Hauser is the Vilas Research Professor of Sociology at the Center
for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin.
February 14, 2005
Pasquale J. (Pat) DeVito
Testing English Language
Learners: Policy Changes and Technical Challenges
Dr. DeVito is president of Assessments and Evaluation Concepts.
February 9, 2005
Marta Tienda
Broadening Access to Higher
Education: Lessons from the Lone Star State
Dr. Tienda is the Maurice P. During '22 Professor in
Demographic Studies and a professor
of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University.
January 31, 2005
Mark Cummings, with ND graduate students, Brad
Faircloth and Alice
Schermerhorn
Children and Marital Conflict
Dr. Cummings is a professor and chair of the
Psychology Department, and a fellow in both the Nanovic Center for
European Studies and the Institute for International Peace Studies.
Mr. Faircloth and Ms. Schermerhorn are both ABD, and are
directors of major grant-funded projects.
January 24, 2005
John Pauley
Why, How, and What We Write:
Some Reflections on the Pedagogy of Writing
Dr. Pauley is an assistant professor and chair of the Department of Communication Studies, Dance, and Theater at St. Mary's College.
January 17, 2005
Maureen Hallinan
Professional and Journalistic Style Writing
Dr. Hallinan is the William P.
and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology, and director of the
Center for Research on Educational Opportunity.
December 6, 2004
Brandy Ellison
Effects of High School
Experience on College Graduation by Gender
Ms. Ellison is a research assistant in CREO and a
graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
November 29, 2004
John W.
Borkowski
Are Vouchers the Answer?
Mr. Borkowski is a partner in the law firm Hogan Hartson in
Washington, D.C.
November
22, 2004
David Campbell
Voice in the
Classroom: How an Open Classroom Environment Facilitates Adolescents
Civic Development
Dr. Campbell is a professor in the
Department of Political Science.
November 15, 2004
Robert Fishman
Social Ties or Social Capital in Sociological Explanation?
Dr. Fishman is a professor in the Sociology Department and a fellow of
the Kellogg Institute.
November 8, 2004
David Baker
Pervasive Coleman Effects,
Declining Significance of Gender, and the Worldwide Explosion of Shadow
Education: What International Trends Tell Us about the Future of
Educational Inequality
Dr. Baker is the associate director in the
Social Science Research Institute, and professor of Education and
Sociology at Pennsylvania State University.
November 5, 2004
Maureen Hallinan and Warren Kubitschek
Comparative Analysis of Public and Catholic Schools
Dr. Hallinan is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Sociology, and director of the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity.
Warren Kubitschek is a technical specialist in CREO.
October 25, 2004
Ken Frank
Course-Taking and the Social
Structure of Schools
Dr. Frank is a professor in Measurement and Quantitative Methods in the
Department of Counseling, and Educational Psychology and Special
Education in the College of Education. He is also a professor in
Fisheries and Wildlife in the College of Agriculture and
Natural Resources at Michigan State University.
October 1, 2004
Paul Peterson
School Vouchers: How
Effective Are They?
Dr. Peterson is the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor
of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard
University, director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance,
and editor In chief of Education Next.
October 8, 2004
Randall Collins
How Many People Are Violent,
and When? A Situational Theory
Location: 119 O'Shaughnessy, 12:30 p.m.
Dr. Collins is a professor of sociology at
the University of Pennsylvania.
September 29, 2004
Judith Cauley, C.S.J.
Sr. Cauley is the associate superintendent for System Advancement,
Archdiocese of Chicago, Office of Catholic Schools.
September 27, 2004
Doo Hwan Kim, Ph.D.
Aligning Action and Promoting
Complementary Ties: School Support in Adolescents: Transition to Post-secondary Education
Dr. Kim is a postdoctoral research associate at CREO. He
recently finished his Ph.D. in sociology at the University
of Chicago.
September 13, 2004
Rev. Ronald J. Nuzzi, Ph.D.
School Choice and the 108th
Congress: The Dynamics of Election Year Politics
Rev. Nuzzi is the director of Catholic Leadership Programs in the Alliance for Catholic Education, Institute
for Educational Initiatives.
April 27, 2004
Barbara Schneider
Building Research Capacity
Dr. Schneider is professor of sociology and human
development
at the University of Chicago. She currently directs the Data Research
and
Development Center, and co-directs the Alfred P. Sloan Center on
Parents,
Children, and Work.
April 26, 2004
Neil Smelser
Patterns of Scientific, Intellectual, and Ideological
Adaptation
in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
Dr. Smelser is the director, emeritus, of the Center for
Advanced
Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and professor of sociology, emeritus,
at the University of California.
March 29, 2004
Richard Sheehan
Reflections on "No Child Left Behind" by a School Board
Member
Dr. Sheehan is a professor in the Department of Finance at
the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business and an IEI
fellow. He is an elected member and former president of the South
Bend Community School
Corporation School Board.
March 15, 2004
Judith Cauley, C.S.J.
Sr. Cauley is the associate superintendent for System Advancement,
Archdiocese of Chicago, Office of Catholic Schools.
March 5, 2004
Abigail Thernstrom and Stephan Thernstrom
The Racial Gap in Academic Achievement
Abigail Thernstrom is a member of the Massachusetts State
Board of Education, a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights
and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York.
Stephan Thernstrom is the Winthrop Professor of History at
Harvard University. He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute
and was recently appointed to the governing body of the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
February 20, 2004
Dennis Condron
Stratification, Skill Grouping, and Learning to Read in First Grade
Mr. Condron is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of
Sociology at Ohio State University.
February 16, 2004
Rose Meissner
Why Changing the World is Harder than You Think: Pursing
A Fair Start through Early Childhood Interventions
Ms. Meissner is president of the Community Foundation of St. Joseph
County, South Bend, Indiana.
February 13, 2004
Dr. Susan Dumais
Cultural Activities, Parental
Habitus, and Teachers: Perceptions: The
Effects of Cultural Capital on Kindergarten Students
Dr. Dumais is a professor in the Department of Sociology,
Louisiana State University.
February 9, 2004
Dr. Charles Bidwell
Student-Teacher Interaction and Faculty Cohesion:
Consequences for Students' Academic Motivation and Conduct
Dr. Bidwell is the William Claude Reavis Professor Emeritus at the
University of Chicago.
February 2, 2004
Dr. Amanda Lewis
Schooling and the Social Reproduction of Racial Inequality
Dr. Lewis is a professor in the Departments of African American
Studies and Sociology, University of Illinois, Chicago.
December 8, 2003
Timothy Ready
The Meaning of Equality of Educational Opportunity at the
Start of the 21st Century: Reflections on Research and Practice
Dr. Ready is the research director at the Institute for Latino Studies.
November 17, 2003
Mark Gunty
Current Issues in Higher Education Research
Dr. Gunty is the assistant director of Institutional
Research.
November 10, 2003
William Carbonaro
Teacher, Peer, and Parent Influences on
Student Effort and Academic Outcomes
Dr. Carbonaro has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO and the
Department of Sociology.
November 3, 2003
Monique R. Payne
The Joint Effects of Families, Neighborhoods, Schools,
and Friends on Early Adolescent Achievement
Dr. Payne is a visiting instructor in the Department of
Sociology.
October 13, 2003
John Borkowski
Preventing Early Developmental Delays and Promoting School
Readiness
Dr. Borkowski is a professor in the Psychology Department.
October 6, 2003
Julie Reed Kochanek
Building Trust for Better Schools
Dr. Kochanek is a postdoctoral research assistant at CREO.
September 29, 2003
Dr. David Sikkink
Who Supports School Vouchers?
Dr. Sikkink has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO
and
the Department of Sociology, and is a fellow of the Institute for
Educational Initiatives.
September 15, 2003
Monique Payne and Julie Reed Kochanek
The Dissertation Process
Ms. Payne is a visiting instructor in the Department of
Sociology. She is currently finishing her doctorate in sociology from
Northwestern University.
Dr. Kochanek is a postdoctoral research assistant in CREO.
September 8, 2003
Karen Boyd and Brandy Ellison
Overview of NCES Workshop on the NELS: 88 Database
Ms. Boyd and Ms. Ellison are research assistants in CREO
and graduate students in the Department of Sociology.
April 28, 2003
William Carbonaro
Ability Grouping, Student Effort, and Academic Achievement
Dr. Carbonaro has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO and
the Department of Sociology.
April 14, 2003
Tom Doyle
How to Measure the Effectiveness of ACE
Dr. Doyle is the director and academic director for the
Alliance for Catholic Education, Institute for Educational Initiatives.
April 7, 2003
Karolyn Tyson
Breeding Animosity: The Significance of School Placement
Patterns in the Development of a "Burden of Acting White"
Dr. Tyson is a professor at the University of
North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
April 3, 2003
In association with the Henkels Conference, April 3-4, at
G-20 Flanner: Cutting Edge Issues in Research on Race and Education
Dr. Karl Alexander and Dr. Travis Gosa (Johns
Hopkins University)
Dr. Jomills Braddock II (University of Miami)]
Dr. Roslyn Mickelson (University of North Carolina-Charlotte)
Dr. Gary Orfield (Harvard University)
March 24, 2003
Paul Weithman
Religious Education and Democratic Character
Dr. Weithman is a professor in the Department of
Philosophy.
February 17, 2003
David Laakso
The Role of Charter Schools in Indiana: Local Issues
Mr. Laakso is president of
Alternative Education Services, Inc.
February 10, 2003
David Campbell
The Civic Side of School Reform: School Vouchers and Civic
Education
Dr. Campbell is a professor in the Department
of Political Science and a fellow of the Institute for Educational
Initiatives.
February 3, 2003
Tom Doyle
Catholic Schools: A Practitioner’s Perspective
Dr. Doyle is the academic director of the
Alliance for Catholic Education Program, Institute for Educational
Initiatives.
January 27, 2003
Carla O'Connor
Place, Space, and Surveillance in the Remaking of
Black Identity and Achievement
Dr. O'Connor is an assistant professor in the
School of Education, and a faculty associate in The Center for
Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor.
December 9, 2002
John L. Watzke
Survival to Professional Development: The Problem of Beginning Teaching
Dr. Watzke is coordinator of field supervision with the
Alliance for Catholic Education Program, Institute for Educational
Initiatives.
December 2, 2002
Rev. Ronald Nuzzi
The History of Catholic Schools in the United States:
Understanding the Contemporary Challenges of Identity & Finance
Rev Nuzzi is director of the Alliance for Catholic Education Leadership Program and editor of
Catholic Education, A Journal of Inquiry and Practice.
November 25, 2002
Rev. Timothy R. Scully, C.S.C.
Building ACE: Improvising on
Providence
Rev. Scully is the director of the Institute for
Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame.
November 18, 2002
Scott Sernau
Where Sociologists Fear to Tread: Educational Attainment,
Neighborhoods and Race
Dr. Sernau is an associate professor in the
Sociology/Anthropology Department at Indiana University South Bend.
November 7, 2002
Lee Shulman
The Liberal and Professional: Teaching and Learning across
the University
Mr. Shulman is president of the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching.
October 14, 2002
Al Neiman
What is Spiritual Education?
Dr. Neiman is a professional specialist in the Department
of Philosophy.
October 7, 2002
Rhonda Brown
An Outside Perspective on the Massachusetts Teachers Test
Ms. Brown is director of the Office of Institutional
Equity.
September 30, 2002
Joyce Johnstone
Seeking External Funding
Dr. Johnstone is the director of Educational Outreach,
Alliance for Catholic Education, and a fellow of the Institute for
Educational Initiatives.
September 23, 2002
Warren Kubitschek
A Brief Social History of Public Schooling in the U.S.
Mr. Kubitschek is an assistant professional specialist in
CREO and a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
April 15, 2002
Alison Bianchi
Fairness Evaluations and High School Grades: A Status Value
Approach
Dr. Bianchi is a postdoctoral research associate
in CREO.
April 8, 2002
Richard Sheehan
Legal, Political and Academic Issues Associated with
Redistricting
Dr. Sheehan is a professor in the Department of Finance in
the Mendoza College of Business, and
president of the South Bend Community School Corporation School Board.
March 25, 2002
William Carbonaro
School Sector Differences in
Achievement among Kindergarten Students: Does Instruction
Account for School Effects?
Dr. Carbonaro has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO and
the Department of Sociology.
March 4, 2002
Stephanie Arnett
Background Factors Affecting
Chances of Participation in School Choice Plans
Ms. Arnett is a research assistant in CREO
and a graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
February 25, 2002
Rick Garnett and Nicole Garnett
School Choice, Religious Freedom, and the Constitution
Dr. Rick Garnett is an assistant professor in the Law
School.
Dr. Nicole Garnett is an assistant professor in the Law
School and a fellow of the
Institute for Educational Initiatives.
February 18, 2002
Alison Bianchi
Fairness Evaluations and High School Grades: A Status Value
Approach
Dr. Bianchi is a postdoctoral research associate
in CREO.
February 11, 2002
Daniel Lapsley
Prime Time: An Evaluation of
Indiana's 'Class Size Reduction' Initiative
Dr. Lapsley is an assistant professor and chair
of the Educational Psychology Department at Ball State
University, Muncie, Indiana.
February 4, 2002
Julianne Turner
The Classroom Environment and Students Reports of Avoidance
Strategies in Mathematics
Dr. Turner teaches in the Department of
Sociology and the Alliance for Catholic Education, and is a fellow of
the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
January 28, 2002
George Howard
Why All Research Literatures
Are Wrong and How to Make Them Right
Dr. Howard teaches in the Psychology Department and is
a fellow of the Institute for International Peace
Studies.
January 21, 2002
George M. Pressley
National Reading Panels and Beyond: The Future of Literacy
Institutional Research
Dr. Pressley is director of the Master of
Education Program in the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
December 10, 2001
Alison Bianchi
Fairness Evaluations and High School Grades: A Status Value
Approach
Dr. Bianchi is a postdoctoral research associate
in CREO.
December 3, 2001
Kim Galipeau
Gender and the Effect of Sports Participation on Students'
Values
Ms. Galipeau is a research assistant in CREO
and a graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
November 19, 2001
David Sikkink
The Religious School Advantage in Parent Participation
Dr. Sikkink has a joint appointment in
IEI-CREO and the Department of Sociology, and
is a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
November 12, 2001
Eric Grodsky
The Structure of Disadvantage: Individual and Occupational
Determinants of the
Black-White Wage Gap
Mr. Grodsky is a graduate student in the
Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
October 29, 2001
Marie Doyle
The Charter School Movement:
Lessons from the First Ten Years
Dr. Doyle is an associate professor and chair of
the Education Department at Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.
October 8, 2001
An Overview of Sociology of Education,
Part II
David Sikkink
Race/Ethnicity
Dr. Sikkink has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO and the
Department of Sociology, and is a fellow of the Institute for
Educational Initiatives.
Warren Kubitschek
School Effects
Mr. Kubitschek is an assistant professional
specialist in CREO and a fellow of the Institute for Educational
Initiatives.
October 1, 2001
An Overview of Sociology of Education,
Part I
William Carbonaro
Status Attainment
Dr. Carbonaro has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO
and the Department of Sociology.
Maureen Hallinan
School Organization
Dr. Hallinan is director of the Center for
Research on Educational Opportunity in the Institute for Educational
Initiatives and a faculty member in the Department of Sociology.
Alison Bianchi
Social Psychology and Group Processes
Dr. Bianchi is a postdoctoral research associate
in CREO.
September 24, 2001
Stephanie Arnett
The Third International Mathematics and Science Study -
Repeat (TIMSS-R)
Ms. Arnett is a research assistant in CREO
and a graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
Warren Kubitschek
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)
Mr. Kubitschek is an assistant professional
specialist in CREO and a fellow of the Institute for Educational
Initiatives.
September 17, 2001
William Carbonaro
An Overview of Multilevel Modeling (aka HLM): What is it?,
When should you use it?,
and Why?
Dr. Carbonaro has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO and
the Department of Sociology.
September 10, 2001
Using NCES Data Sets for Research:
Warren Kubitschek
A Brief Introduction to NCES
Data Sets and NCES Training Workshops
Mr. Kubitschek is an assistant professional
specialist in CREO and a fellow of the Institute for Educational
Initiatives.
Kim Galipeau
The National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88)
Ms. Galipeau is a research assistant in CREO
and a graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
Yinghao Lu
The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class
of 1998-99 (ECLS-K)
Mr. Lu is a research assistant in CREO and a
graduate student in the Department of Sociology.
April 17, 2001
Carolyn Woo
Grace in a Competitive World
Dr. Woo is the Ray and Milann Siegfried Professor
of Management and Martin J. Gillen Dean of the Mendoza College of
Business.
April 24, 2001
Brenda Bredemeier
Changers and the Changed: Sportswomen as Moral Exemplars
Dr. Bredemeier is the co-director of the
Center for Sports, Character, and Culture.
April 17, 2001
Elizabeth McEneaney
Charter Schools and Implications for Educational
Stratification
Dr. McEneaney is a postdoctoral fellow in CREO
and an assistant professor (on leave) in the Department of Sociology at
the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
April 3, 2001
Nicole Stelle Garnett and Richard W.
Garnett
School Choice and the First Amendment
Dr. Nicole Stelle Garnett and Dr. Richard W. Garnett are assistant professors in
the Law School.
March 27, 2001
Jay Brandenberger
Moral and Civic Learning in Higher Education
Dr. Brandenberger is director of
Experiential Learning and Developmental Research in the Center for
Social Concerns.
March 20, 2001
Marie Doyle
Those Who Understand, Teach:
Research on Effective Teaching, 1950 to the Present
Dr. Doyle is chair of the Department of
Education, St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana.
March 19, 2001
Sean Reardon
Race, Suburbanization, and Recent Patterns and Trends in
School Segregation
Dr. Reardon is an assistant professor of
Educational Theory and Policy in the Department of Education Policy
Studies at Pennsylvania State University.
March 6, 2001
David Hachen
Using the Web of Science for
Bibliographic Research
Dr. Hachen is an associate professor in the
Department of Sociology.
February 27, 2001
Barbara Searle
Attachment Theory and Possible Implications for the
Classroom Setting
Dr. Searle is an assistant professional
specialist for teaching in the Department of Psychology.
February 20, 2001
Mitchell Stevens
Efficiency and Legitimacy in
College Admissions
Dr. Stevens is an assistant professor in the
Department of Sociology at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York.
February 12, 2001
Joan Raymond
The Status of American Public Education
Dr. Raymond is the superintendent of the South
Bend Community School Corporation (Indiana).
January 23, 2001
Elizabeth McEneaney
An Institutionalist View of Education and Educational
Research
Dr. McEneaney is a postdoctoral fellow in CREO
and an assistant professor (on leave) in the Department of Sociology at
the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
December 5, 2000
William Carbonaro
The Effects of Parent Involvement and School Policy on
Track Placement: A Multilevel Analysis
Dr. Carbonaro has a joint appointment in
IEI-CREO and the Department of Sociology.
November 28, 2000
David Sikkink
Choosing Private Schools: The Effect of Community and
Religious Factors
Dr. Sikkink has a joint appointment in
IEI-CREO and the Department of Sociology, and is
a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
October 26, 2000
Sarita Brown and Deborah Santiago
Creating the Will: Hispanics
Achieving Educational Excellence
Ms. Brown is the executive director and Ms.
Santiago is the deputy director of the White House Initiative on
Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans.
October 24, 2000
Vladimir Khmelkov
Developing Professionalism: Effects of School Workplace
Organization on Teachers' Sense of Responsibility and Efficacy
Dr. Khmelkov is a senior research analyst in
the Office of Institutional Research.
October 9, 2000
Felicia LeClere
Income Inequality, Poverty Concentration, and Children's
Well-Being in the United States
Dr. LeClere is director of the Laboratory
for Social Research, a professor in the Department of Sociology, and a
fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
September 29, 2000
James Nolan
"Public Education" in The
Therapeutic State
Dr. Nolan is a professor in the Department
of Sociology and Anthropology at Williams College.
September 26, 2000
Thomas Swartz
Some Preliminary Observations on the Impact of High Schools
on Students Attending Elite Colleges and Universities
Dr. Swartz is a professor in the Department of
Economics and a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
September 19, 2000
Warren Kubitschek
High School Schedule Changes
after the School Year Starts: Do They Affect Student
Achievement?
Mr. Kubitschek is an assistant professional
specialist in CREO and a fellow of the Institute for Educational
Initiatives.
September 12, 2000
Elizabeth McEneaney
An Institutionalist View of Education and Educational
Research
Dr. McEneaney is a postdoctoral fellow in CREO
and an assistant professor (on leave) in the Department of Sociology at
the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
September 6, 2000
Mark Gunty
Standard Practices and Issues in Assessment Research in
Higher Education
Dr. Gunty is the assistant director of
Institutional Research and concurrent assistant professor of Sociology.
May 3, 2000
David Shields
Promoting Sociomoral Development through Physical Education
Dr. Shields is co-director of the Center for
Sport, Character & Culture, and a fellow of the Institute for
Educational Initiatives.
April 19, 2000
David Cole
Age and Gender Effects in Multiple Domains of Child and
Adolescent Self-concept: A
Cohort Sequential Longitudinal Design
Dr. Cole is the director of the Laboratory for
Social Research, a professor in the Department of Psychology, and a
fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
April 12, 2000
Scott Maxwell
A Multilevel Model Analysis of Changes in Self-Concept from
3rd to 11th Grade
Dr. Maxwell is the Fitzsimons Professor of
Psychology and a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
April 5, 2000
Daniel McFarland
Student Dominance and Rebellion in High School Classrooms
Dr. McFarland is a postdoctoral fellow at CREO,
and will be an assistant professor at Stanford University's School of
Education
in the fall.
March 29, 2000
Joyce Johnstone and Carol Schmidt
Curriculum Decisions for K-12 Schools
Dr. Schmidt is the associate superintendent of
Penn-Harris-Madison Schools, Mishawaka, Indiana.
Dr. Johnstone is
the director of Educational Outreach, Alliance for Catholic Education,
and a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
March 22, 2000
Barbara E. Walvoord
Academic Departments: The Key to Change in Higher Education?
Dr. Walvoord is director of the Kaneb Center for
Teaching and Learning, a professor in the Department of English, and a
fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
March 8, 2000
David Sikkink
The Public Lives of Private Schoolers
Dr. Sikkink has a joint appointment in
IEI-CREO and the Department of Sociology, and is
a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
February 23, 2000
F. Clark Power
Discipline and the Moral Culture of the High School
Dr. Power is chair of the Program of Liberal
Studies, a professor in the Department Psychology, a fellow of the
Institute for Educational Initiatives, and a fellow of the Center for
Sports, Character, and Culture.
February 16, 2000
Stuart Greene
Teaching Writing as Inquiry
Dr. Greene holds the Francis O'Malley Chair in
the University Writing Program, is director of the University Writing
Program, is a professor in the Department of English, and a fellow of
the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
February 9, 2000
Vladimir Khmelkov
Who Benefits the Most? Teacher-Student Relationships and
Academic Achievement
Mr. Khmelkov is a doctoral candidate in the
Department of Sociology and the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
February 2, 2000
Richard Sheehan
Policy, Administration, and Oversight in Schools
Dr. Sheehan is a professor in the Department of
Finance in the Mendoza College of
Business and president of the South Bend Community School
Corporation School Board.
December 1, 1999
Ann Power
The Role of Extracurricular Participation in the
Post-Secondary Preparation Process
Dr. Power recently received her Ph.D. from the
Department of Sociology.
November 17, 1999
Barbara Schneider
Social Exchange and Interests: Parent Investments in
Educational Opportunities
Dr. Schneider is a professor of sociology at the University
of Chicago and a senior social scientist at the National Opinion
Research Center. She currently is the co-director of the National
Council on Education Standards and
Testing and has held research and teaching positions at the University
of Chicago, Stanford University, and Oberlin
College.
October 27, 1999
Julianne Turner
The Influence of Instructional Contexts on Students'
Motivation to Learn
Dr. Turner is a professor in the Department of Sociology and
the Alliance for Catholic Education, and a fellow of the Institute for
Educational Initiatives.
October 6, 1999
Michael Pressley
Balanced Reading Instruction
Dr. Pressley is the Notre Dame Professor of Catholic
Education in the Department of Psychology and the Alliance for Catholic
Education, academic director of the Alliance for Catholic Education,
editor of the Journal of Educational Psychology, and a member
of the Executive Committee of the Institute for Educational
Initiatives.
September 29, 1999
David Sikkink
Education and Black-White Segregation in Schools and
Neighborhoods
Dr. Sikkink has a joint appointment in IEI-CREO
and the Department of Sociology, and is a fellow of
the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
September 15, 1999
Daniel McFarland
Schools as Complex Organizations: An Overview of the
Structural and Interactional Contexts of Schooling
Dr. McFarland is a postdoctoral research associate at
CREO. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
September 8, 1999
Amy Orr
The Black-White Test Score Gap: Does Wealth Matter?
Ms. Orr is a research assistant in CREO and is
working on her Ph.D. in the Department of Sociology.
September 1, 1999
Warren Kubitschek
A Brief Social History of Public Schooling in the U.S.
Mr. Kubitschek is an assistant professional specialist
in CREO and a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives.
March 18, 1999
Barbara Schneider
The Ambitious Generation America's Teenagers: Motivated but Directionless
Dr. Schneider is a professor of sociology at the University
of Chicago and a senior social scientist at the National Opinion
Research Center. She currently is the co-director of the National
Council on Education Standards and
Testing and has held research and teaching positions at the University
of Chicago, Stanford University, and Oberlin
College.
February 9, 1999
Thomas Hoffer
Identifying Outstanding High
Schools Using Survey and Public Archival Data
Dr. Hoffer is a senior research scientist at the
National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago. He is the
principal partner in designing the value-added model for the U.S. NEWS
& WORLD REPORT "Special Report : Outstanding American High Schools;
How to Find the Best School for Your Kids. Ways to Make Your School
Great." (January 18, 1999)
