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UEP Speaker: Deborah Stipek

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Dr. Deborah Stipek
Friday, March 16th, Noon, Barus Hall, Dewey Room
 

Preschool Expansion: Policy Implications

 
Deborah Stipek’s scholarship concerns instructional effects on children's achievement motivation, early childhood education, elementary education and school reform. In addition to her scholarship, Dr. Stipek has an interest in policies affecting children and education. She served for five years on the Board on Children, Youth and Families at the National Research Council; she was the Chair of National Research Council Committee for Increasing High School Students' Engagement and Motivation to Learn and she directed the MacArthur Foundation Network on Teaching and Learning. While a professor at UCLA, Dr. Stipek served as Director of the Corinne Seeds University Elementary School and the Urban Education Studies Center.
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She is the I. James Quillen Dean and Professor of Education at Stanford University. Her research focuses on student achievement motivation, early childhood and elementary education, school reform. Currently, she is completing a longitudinal study which followed children from kindergarten through fifth grade in three low-income communities in three different states. Recent publications of hers include: Motivation to Learn: Integrating Theory and Practice (4th edition, 2002); Motivated Minds: Raising Children to Love Learning (with K. Seal, 2001); and Constructive and Destructive Behavior: Implications for Family, School, and Society (with A. Bohart, 2001).

For more information, please visit:
http://ed.stanford.edu/suse/faculty/displayRecord.php?suid=stipek

Day/Time: Friday, March 16th , Noon—1 pm
Place: Barus Hall, Dewey Conference Room, 2nd Floor


For more information on the Urban Education Policy Program @ Brown, please visit:
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Education/uep_intro.php