Join us Thursday, September 24th at 4:30p.m. to screen filmmaker Tara Moore’s documentary Legacy: Apartheid’s Shadow. The documentary examines the lingering implications of South Africa’s Apartheid system. The event will feature a brief reception and film screening, followed by a discussion with the filmmaker, Tara Erica Moore.
John Papay is the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Associate Professor of Education and Economics and the Director of the Annenberg Institute. His research focuses on policies that affect teachers and their work, as well as how schools and policies perpetuate or ameliorate educational inequality. Papay conducts the majority of his research in collaborative partnerships with policymakers and practitioners. He currently leads the Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts project, a long-standing partnership with state education agencies in Massachusetts. He is a founding senior researcher of the Research Partnership for Professional Learning, which seeks to identify the features of professional learning that improve teacher development, with a specific focus on improving classroom experiences and outcomes for students from historically marginalized groups. Locally in Rhode Island, he has helped build a multi-sector partnership to bring together the Rhode Island Department of Education, local school districts and local education leaders to solve pressing educational challenges in Rhode Island. A former high school history teacher, John earned his doctorate in Quantitative Policy Analysis from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Nate Schwartz is the Director of Applied Research and a Professor of the Practice at Brown University's Annenberg Institute for School Reform. In 2020, he co-founded the EdResearch for Recovery initiative, which collects requests for pandemic-related research guidance from education leaders and identifies teams of researchers across the country to build out quick-response evidence synthesis. He also serves as the research chair for the Research Partnership on Professional Learning (RPPL), a collaboration between the Annenberg Institute and a group of professional learning providers that aims to produce more actionable research on teacher professional learning.
Schwartz previously held a position as the chief research and strategy officer for the Tennessee Department of Education. In this role, he led the department’s research and strategic planning teams, contributing to the launch of Tennessee Succeeds, a strategic plan and vision aimed at increasing postsecondary and career readiness for Tennessee's one million students, and to the creation of the Tennessee Education Research Alliance, an innovative state-level research partnership with Vanderbilt University. He started his career as a high school physics teacher.
Are RI students engaging in risky behavior? What a new survey shows
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State previews new graduation framework at meeting in Williamsburg
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State previews new graduation framework at meeting in Williamsburg
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Annenberg’s Education Workshop Seminar Series is an hour-long “works in progress” seminar centered on empirical research related to education and education policy. Seminars are typical academic presentations intended for a broad academic audience. Speakers come from a variety of disciplinary traditions and we seek to be inclusive to a broad, multi-disciplinary audience.
We invite faculty, postdocs, graduate students, and research staff from across the university who are interested in empirical research in education to participate.
Event speaker: Quentin Jenkins Jr., Ph.D. student in the Department of Sociology at Brown University
Event Title: It’s the Wild West: Organizational Context and Teacher Sensemaking in the Age of AI
Free lunch provided!
Schools should help students achieve economic mobility in the long term. How do we measure whether students are learning the skills and knowledge that will pay off in the future?
The Annenberg Institute and the Student Upward Mobility Initiative at the Urban Institute invite you to a conversation with the authors of recent EdWorkingPapers on harnessing and interpreting the breadth and depth of student achievement data.
Whether you’re a longtime reader of EdWorkingPapers or just curious about the latest in education research, this webinar offers an engaging, accessible way to connect with the work and the people behind it. All are welcome—no prior reading required. Hear directly from the authors as they share insights and discuss implications for research and policy, and come with your questions!
State previews new graduation framework
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Abigail Orbe is a PhD student in the Department of Economics at Brown University. Her research interests include labor and public economics, with a focus on access to opportunity and intergenerational mobility. She has previously worked on projects related to the long-run impacts of college financial aid and charter school effectiveness and helped build the first national database of K-12 per-pupil expenditures in the U.S. Before coming to Brown, Abigail worked as a predoctoral researcher at MIT Blueprint Labs. She holds a BA in Economics and a Certificate in Education Finance from Georgetown University.
