Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management

2016 is the 50th anniversary of the Coleman report, Equality of Educational Opportunity, that continues to influence education policy and administration today. This plenary brings together distinguished researchers who have been highly influential in creating and using research evidence to make education more effective. Participants include John Easton, currently Vice President of Programs and Distinguished Senior Fellow at The Spencer Foundation, and former Director of the Institute of Education Sciences and Executive Director of the Consortium on Chicago School Research; Nora Gordon, Associate Professor at Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy and an expert on Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and Richard Murnane, the Thompson Research Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and co-editor of Whither Opportunity (2011) and Restoring Opportunity (2014). Adam Gamoran, who as President of the William T. Grant Foundation has launched a new initiative to support research on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and is continuing the Foundation’s ongoing work to improve the use of research evidence in policy making, will moderate the plenary. Previously, Gamoran held the John D. MacArthur Chair in Sociology and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and directed the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.

This symposium will be held in the Jefferson room on the concourse level of the Washington Hilton.