What could be lost if federal education research funding is eliminated?
Presented in conjunction with the Marsal Family School of Education
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Elizabeth Moje, Christian Weiland, Kevin StangeDate & time
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In the face of ongoing threats to federal funding of education research, and even the elimination of the Department of Education, this panel takes a look at what the research actually covers and what would be lost without ongoing support.
Please join Dean Elizabeth Moje of the Marsal Family School of Education, and Professors Kevin Stange and Christina Weiland, to discuss potential federal government funding cuts to IES, the Institute of Education Sciences. IES is the independent, non-partisan statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education, which supports "improving instruction, student behavior, teacher learning, and school and system organization."
The panel will examine what IES currently supports and how that research affects students, instructors, and state and federal policy, and the implications of the proposed cuts could mean for the University and the state of education across the country.
Speaker Bios:
Elizabeth Birr Moje is dean, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Education, and an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Literacy, Language, and Culture in the Marsal Family School of Education. Moje teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in secondary and adolescent literacy, cultural theory, and research methods and was awarded the Provost’s Teaching Innovation Prize with colleague, Bob Bain, in 2010. A former high school history and biology teacher, Moje’s research examines young people’s culture, identity, and literacy learning in and out of school in Detroit, Michigan.
Christina Weiland is the Karl and Martha Kohn Professor of Social Policy at the Ford School of Public Policy and a Professor at the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan, where she is affiliated with the Educational Studies department and the Combined Program in Psychology and Education program. 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.
Kevin Stange is an Professor of Public Policy and co-director of the Education Policy Initiative at the University of Michigan where he teaches graduate courses in higher education policy, economics, and quantitative methods. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research and faculty affiliate of the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan.
