Smart from the Start: Closing Early Opportunity Gaps with Strategic Early Learning Investments
Karl and Martha Kohn Professor of Social Policy Inaugural Lecture
Speaker
Christina WeilandDate & time
How to attend
The Ford School's Karl and Martha Kohn Professor of Social Policy, Christina Weiland, will deliver her Koh lecture reflecting on her work on early childhood interventions and public policies on children’s development, especially on children from families with low incomes.
The professorship is a part o the larger Kohn Collaborative for Social Research, a Ford School hub that will catalyze interdisciplinary research and policy impact to promote social equity and inclusion. The collaborative consists of three pillars: Kohn Professors, Kohn Scholars, and policy impact.
The Karl and Martha Kohn Professorship of Social Policy is intended to promote social equity through U.S. education policy, with a focus on childhood development.
Speaker Bio:
Christina Weiland is the Karl and Martha Kohn Professor of Social Policy at the Ford School of Public Policy and Professor at the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan. She co-directs the Education Policy Initiative (with Dr. Kevin Stange) and directs the University of Michigan’s Predoctoral Training Program in Causal Inference in Education Policy Research. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Urban Institute.
Dr. Weiland’s research focuses on the effects of early childhood interventions and public policies on children’s development, especially on children from families with low incomes. She is particularly interested in the active ingredients that drive children’s gains in successful, at-scale public preschool programs. She is also interested in quantitative research methods, educational measurement, and developmental processes research. Her work is also characterized by strong, long-standing research collaborations with practitioners, particularly the Boston Public Schools Department of Early Childhood.
