From Senior Lecturer Luther Spoehr's review of Seth Rosenfeld’s Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power (FSG, 2012):  "For aficionados of the abuse of power, J Edgar Hoover’s FBI is a gift that keeps on giving.  Every time it seems that there can’t be anything left to reveal, somebody turns over a rock and out crawls another law-breaking, ethics-ig

That is the question that Assistant Professor of Education and Economics John Papay set out to answer in a recent article published in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis along with former UEP faculty member Martin R. West. Although the authors found little to no performance differences in the short term, the findings suggested that the teachers in the residency program had a substantial increase in mathematics effectiveness by the fourth or fifth year of teaching. However, the authors concluded that over the long term there would only be moderate gains.

Jin Li, Associate Professor of Education and Human Development, was recently asked to share her expertise on Minnesota Public Radio. The topic of the article and radio interview focused on differences in cultural beliefs about education and learning. 

In July, the Tri-State Consortium, an organization that supports high performing public school districts in the New York metropolitan area, held a two-day conference at Brown exploring the degree to which existing high school math and science curricula prepare students for rigorous college level work.

Billy Buchanan ('10) - a member of UEP IV - will present a paper titled "Effect of Instrument Ownership on Musical Achievement: Results from NAEP 2008" at the 2013 AERA conference. The paper will be presented at the session called "Arts for All: Expanding Access and Quality for Poor and Underserved Youth" as part of the special interest group in Arts and Learning.

Professor Kenneth Wong's comments on Chicago's  first teacher strike in 25 years were included in a report by Reuters.  Wong observed the emergence of a new breed of urban mayors and discussed their new strategies on urban school reform.

An article co-authored by Assistant Professor of Education and Human Development  Deborah Rivas-Drake  was recently published in the Society for Research in Child Development's flagship publication Child Development Perspect

Tyler Dobrowsky (UEP II) was recently named to Providence Business News' 40 Under 40 list for his work with the Trinity Repertory Company. For additional details see the story here.

The Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University recently released a report examining how reliably a portfolio system can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of early-career teachers.