Curry Education Research Lectureship Series - Spring 2009
Spring 2009
Ruffner Hall Room 241
Fridays from 11 am to 12 noon (except April 21)
All lectures are FREE and open to the public. No registration is required. Parking is available at the Central Grounds Parking Garage on Emmet Street.
Visit the link for each speaker to hear their lecture and see any supporting materials.
January 30 -- Patricia Prelock, Understanding Social Cognition in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Assessing Theory of Mind and Perspective Taking
Chair, Communications Sciences, University of Vermont
February 6 -- Stefanie DeLuca, Does Moving to Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an Experimental Housing Voucher Program
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
February 13 -- Lawrence Aber
Promoting the Social-Emotional and Literacy Development of Low-Income Children: Results from a School Randomized Trial
Professor of Applied Psychology and Public Policy, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, New York University
March 13 -- David DuBois
Evidence-Based Practice: Looking for Truth in All the Wrong Places?
Professor in the Division of Community Health Sciences within the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois at Chicago
March 20 -- Tom Loveless,
The Misplaced Math Student
Senior Fellow at the Brown Center on Education Policy at The Brookings Institution
March 27 -- Robert Jagers, The Impact of Interactions Among Culture, Race, and Class on the Social-Emotional Development of Urban Youth
Associate Professor, Combined Program in Education and Psychology, School of Education, University of Michigan
TUESDAY April 21 at 12 noon -- James Sallis, Understanding Physical Activity Environments: Advances in Research and Policy
A joint Curry Research presentation and Slaughter Lecture
Professor of Psychology, San Diego State University