Annual Conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy

"Taking Stock in Race to the Top: Research to Inform the Next Generation of Education Reform"

Seattle, WA—March 24-26, 2011

Date/Time

Thursday, March 24

3:30-5:00 p.m.

Paper Session: School Improvement—Organization and Achievement

Combination Classes and Educational Achievement

Jaime Thomas

Friday, March 25

8:30-10:00 a.m.

Paper Session: Experiments in Education

Lessons from the Teach For America Experiment

10:15-11:45 a.m.

Paper Session: Gender and Achievement

Steven Glazerman, Discussant

2:00-3:15 p.m.

Poster Session

Interim Findings of Two Impact Evaluations in El Salvador: Scholarships and Improvement in 20 Technical High Schools in El Salvador

3:30-5:00 p.m.

Paper Session: Teacher Pay for Performance

Duncan Chaplin, Chair and Discussant

Saturday, March 26

8:00-9:30 a.m.

Paper Session: Value-Added Methodology

Methods for Accounting for Co-Teaching in Value-Added Models

Heinrich Hock and Eric Isenberg

9:45-11:15 a.m.

Paper Session: School Effectiveness

Successive Cohort Indicators of School Performance

Steven Glazerman and Liz Potamites

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Paper Session: Parental Choice

Using Lotteries to Evaluate Charter School Impacts

Paper Session: Preparing and Recruiting Teachers

Impacts of Comprehensive Teacher Induction: Final Results from a Randomized Control Study

Eric Isenberg