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Visiting Panel of Education Policy Scholars
February 16, 2017 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
The Department of Education Leadership, Policy, and Human Development will host three education policy scholars for a panel presentation of working papers in the areas of K-12 and higher education policy:
- Huriya Jabbar joins us from the College of Education at UT Austin, where she is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Administration. Her research examines the social and political dimensions of market-based reforms and privatization in education, including school choice and decision-making in K-12 and higher education contexts. She will present a paper titled, “Constructing Choice Sets: How Texas Community College Students Choose Transfer Institutions.”
- Lindsay Page joins us from the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is an assistant professor of research methodology and a research scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center. Her work focuses on quantitative methods and their application to questions regarding the effectiveness of educational policies and programs across the pre-school to postsecondary spectrum. Much of her recent work has focused on implementing large-scale randomized trials to investigate potential solutions to “summer melt,” the phenomenon that college-intending students fail to transition successfully from high school to college. She will present a paper titled, “Customized Nudging to Improve FAFSA Completion and Income Verification.”
- Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj joins us from Seton Hall University, where she is an assistant professor and co-director of the Center for College Readiness. Her research focuses on Latino immigrant-origin families’ experiences negotiating education systems with an emphasis on school choice and points of educational transition. Most recently, she co-edited with Andrew Kelly and Jessica Howell the volume, Matching students to post-secondary opportunities: How college choice is influenced by institutional, state, and federal policy. She will present a paper titled, “Leveling the Playing Field for High School Choice in NYC: Lessons from Informational Interventions.”