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The Education Policy Initiative (EPI) is a program within the Ford School that brings together nationally-recognized education policy scholars focused on the generation and dissemination of policy-relevant education research.

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EPI Seminars at CLOSUP: 'The Effects of New York City's Charter Schools on Student Achievement'

Nov 19, 2007, 4:00-5:30 pm EST
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Abstract: We analyze all but a few of the 47 charter schools operating in New York City in 2005-06. The schools tend to locate in disadvantaged neighborhoods and serve students who are substantially poorer than the average public school student in New York City. The schools also attract black applicants to an unusual degree, not only relative to New York City but also relative to the traditional public schools from which they draw.
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Reflections on No Child Left Behind

Oct 24, 2007, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Abstract: Accountability programs, including the one implemented by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, operate under the assumption that schools are inefficient -- that is, that schools can provide higher quality education without investing additional resources. These programs seek to make schools more efficient by using incentives. The state of North Carolina currently operates two independent incentive systems for public schools.
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Improving Equality of Opportunity in America: New Insights from Big Data

Jun 21, 2018, 4:00-5:20 pm EDT
Weill Hall, Betty Ford Classroom (1110)
This talk will show how children’s chances of climbing the income ladder vary across neighborhoods, analyze the sources of racial disparities in intergenerational mobility, and discuss the role of higher education in creating greater income mobility. 
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EPI Speaker Series

Supplying Disadvantaged Schools with Effective Teachers: Experimental Evidence on Secondary Math Teachers from Teach For America

Apr 7, 2014, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT
Weill Hall
Free and open to the public Teach For America (TFA) is an important but controversial source of teachers for hard-to-staff subjects in high-poverty U.S. schools. We present findings from the first large-scale experimental study of secondary math teachers from TFA. We find that TFA teachers are more effective than other math teachers in the same schools, increasing student math achievement by 0.07 standard deviations over one school year.
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Policy Talks @ the Ford School

CANCELED: Mike Duggan, Mayor of Detroit

Mar 12, 2015, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT
CANCELED
CLOSUP and EPI welcome Mayor of Detroit Mike Duggan for a Policy Talks @ the Ford School lecture.
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Susan Dynarski at TEDx Indianapolis Viewing Party

Oct 20, 2015, 2:30-4:00 pm EDT
Weill Hall, #1230 O'Neill Classroom
Susan Dynarski, co-director of Education Policy Initiative and Professor of Public Policy, Education and Economics at the University of Michigan, will be a featured presenter at TEDx Indianapolis. The Education Policy Initiative will host a viewing party of her livestreamed presentation. Snacks and drinks provided.
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Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

A talk by Carrie Xu, Economics and Information, and Ben Alcott, Education

Nov 4, 2015, 8:30-10:00 am EST
Weill Hall, Room 3240
A presentation by Carrie Xu, PhD student in Economics and Information on peer effects in a field experiment followed by a presentation by Ben Alcott, PhD student in Education, on whether progress assessments hinder equitable progress
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Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Impact of tuition deregulation in Texas

Aug 12, 2015, 11:30 am-1:00 pm EDT
Weill Hall, Room 3240
A presentation by Kevin Stange, Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Ford School
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Deunionization and resources in education

Aug 31, 2016, 11:30 am-1:30 pm EDT
Weill Hall, Room 3240
A presentation by Andrew Litten, PhD candidate in economics and public policy
Ford School
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Maternal education and birth outcomes

Aug 17, 2016, 11:30 am-1:00 pm EDT
Weill Hall, Room 3240
A presentation by Olga Yakusheva, associate professor of nursing and public health
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