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La Alianza and the Social Justice Alliance are hosting a dinner discussion with
Economics Professor Elizabeth Cascio
Topic: The Nationwide Achievement Gap In The US: How Does Policy Affect Disparity?
Date: Wednesday, Nov 16 @ 6 p.m.
Location: LALACS house (38 N. Main Street, near Dick's House)
FREE ORIENT will be served.
Professor Elizabeth Cascio will be joining us to speak about the effects of public
education policy on child and family wellbeing. She'll be sharing various aspects
of her research with us, and those in attendance will be able to ask her questions
about her work, including:
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What role the federal government plays in the equality of educational opportunity?
What role immigration plays in school choice?
If early childhood educaton policy can widen racial and socio-economic disparities?
Sponsored by ICDF.
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About the Professor:
Elizabeth Cascio joined the faculty at Dartmouth College in 2006. Cascio specializes
in research on the economics of education. Her work looks at the effects of
public education on child and family well-being, and to date has focused on study
of the historic shifts in state and federal education policy and student demographics
in the United States since the 1960s. She is a Faculty Research Fellow in the
Programs on Children, Education, and the Development of the American Economy at
the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Research Fellow at the Institute
for the Study of Labor (IZA). She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University
of California, Berkeley in 2003.
Her work includes:
"Paying for Progress: Conditional Grants and the Desegregation of Southern Schools,"
The
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(1), 445-482, February 2010 (with Nora Gordon,
Ethan
Lewis, and Sarah Reber)
"From Brown to Busing," Journal of Urban Economics, 64(2), 296-325, September
2008 (with Nora
Gordon, Ethan Lewis, and Sarah Reber)
Review of Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay Off
across the Generations? By Paul Attewell and David E. Lavin. Journal of Economic
Literature, 46(2), 431-
433, June 2008
"Cracks in the Melting Pot: Immigration, School Choice, and Segregation," August
2010 (with Ethan Lewis) - working paper
Awards:
Spencer Foundation, "The Federal Role in Equality of Educational Opportunity:
Evidence from the Civil Rights Act and Title I" (with Nora Gordon and Sarah Reber),
2006-08, $157,400.
National Science Foundation, "Local Responses to Federal Education Policy: Evidence
from the Civil Rights Act and Title I" (with Nora Gordon, Ethan Lewis, and Sarah
Reber), 2005-07, $220,441.
Links:
CV: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~eucascio/cascio_cv.pdf
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~eucascio/index.htm
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