A general open house will be held on Saturday, November 12th, 2011 from 9:00am-3:00pm. Location to be announced.

The Open House will feature faculty and alumni panels as well as an opportunity to hear from our current UEP Ambassadors.

Professor John Tyler has been appointed as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. The NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. NBER disseminates unbiased economic research among public policy makers, business professionals, and the academic community. NBER Research Associates are the long term affiliates who largely determine the direction and tone of research within each NBER program. Professor Tyler has been active in the Economics of Education program at NBER.

A general open house will be held on Saturday, November 12th, 2011 from 9:00am-3:00pm. Location to be announced.

The Open House will feature faculty and alumni panels as well as an opportunity to hear from our current UEP Ambassadors.

Assistant Professors Deborah Rivas-Drake and Rosa Cho have been awarded a grant from the American Educational Research Association to study how community, school, and family resources influence Latino adolescents' postsecondary motivations and choices

The Messing Family Public Service Fellowship provides funding for students to pursue internships in public education that advance students' understanding of public education in the U.S. and their own interest and career possibilities in education. The Fellowship is a collaboration between the Swearer Center for Public Service, the Career Development Center, and the Education Department, and was established through the generosity of Brett S. Messing '86 and Marla B. Messing.

Getting a firsthand look at New England schools, a group of 24 teachers, principals, and government school officials from Shenzhen, China, is visiting Brown for four weeks, comparing how American education practices differ from their own.

Professor Cynthia Garcia-Coll and Assistant Professor Deborah Rivas-Drake presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, March 11-13, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA. 

Professor Kenneth Wong joined U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan at a symposium on "Transforming Public Education" in the Peoria (IL) Civic Center on April 21, 2010.

At the Conference on The Role of Family in Child Education, April 2nd - 19th, Professor Garcia Coll is speaking on the following topics:

April 2nd- Role of the parents in educating children.