coe-staff: Reminder: Kenneth Shores - Colloquium: U.S. Academic Inequality - Mon 4/4 @ 11:30am

[Denise McKenney]

Reminder: Colloquium today, Monday, April 4, 2016 .  See below for more information.  Lunch will be provided.  Hope to see you there!

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Educational Methodology, Policy and Leadership (EMPL) is pleased to announce the following colloquium:


Kenneth Shores
Stanford University

U.S. Academic Inequality: Patterns and Possible Remedies
Monday, April 4, 2016
119 Lokey Education Bldg
11:30am - 1:00pm
Lunch provided


In this colloquium, Kenneth Shores presents two papers investigating the geographic scope of racial academic inequality in the United States and recent attempts to leverage school funding to remedy inequalities between students enrolled in high- and low-poverty school districts. The first paper (with Sean Reardon and Demetra Kalogrides) uses unique district level achievement and demographic data to investigate the relationships between socioeconomic status, school quality and segregation variables and academic achievement gaps. These achievement gap estimates are based on the results of roughly 200 million standardized math and reading tests administered to elementary and middle school students from 2009-2012, far surpassing any previously available data. The second paper (with Christopher Candelaria), uses detailed panel data and a differences-in-differences econometric framework to estimate the causal effects of school funding on graduation rates, with a specific focus on how these changes affected high poverty school districts. This paper incorporates recent advances in econometric techniques, as well as tests a wide variety of alternative modeling specifications, to provide robust estimates of the relationship between school spending and student outcomes.

Ken Shores (kshores at stanford.edu<mailto:kshores at stanford.edu>) received his PhD in Education Policy Analysis from the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. He received his B.S. in Economics from the University of Rhode Island in 2003. Prior to coming to Stanford, he was a teacher for five years in Pueblo Pintado, a small Navajo community in the northwest region of New Mexico. He also taught for two years in Quito, Ecuador. Ken studies patterns and trends of educational inequality and the political tools at our disposal for addressing these inequalities.
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