Monday, April 18, 2011

CI Research Team Joins Education Researchers at Annual Conference

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92nd Annual AERA Meeting in New Orleans

From Friday, April 8 to Tuesday, April 12, the Cowen Institute’s research team joined thousands of people from across the world at the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) 2011 Annual Meeting held in downtown New Orleans. This year’s conference theme, “Inciting the Social Imagination: Education Research for the Public Good,” could not have been a better fit for the setting.

The AERA conference provided an incredible opportunity for us to share information about the Cowen Institute’s work in New Orleans, as well as to learn from others about their research findings in other urban school districts across the country. Debra Vaughan, Assistant Director for Research, represented the Cowen Institute on a panel titled “Portfolio Management Models in Urban District Reform” along with Jeffrey Henig of the Teachers College at Columbia University and Katrina Bulkley of Montclair State University. Throughout the conference we attended a variety of roundtable discussions and paper sessions on topics ranging from school choice and charter schools to school governance and turnaround models. Several sessions highlighted the reform efforts in New Orleans and featured representatives from some of our partner organizations. Additionally, a reception on Sunday night organized by the University of New Orleans allowed us to connect with other researchers interested in or already doing research studies on public schools in New Orleans.

We look forward to sharing much of the relevant research papers and reports we learned about at the AERA conference in our online Education Transformation Research Archive, and to utilizing new connections and resources to help inform and improve our own work.

The Scott S. Cowen Institute for Public Education Initiatives at Tulane University is an action-oriented think tank that creates and advances solutions to the issues impeding student achievement in New Orleans and beyond. Areas of concentration include Applied Research, Public Policy, University-Based Initiatives, and College Readiness Programs. Additional information can be found online at http://education.tulane.edu

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