Education the focus of upcoming lectures

Education the focus of upcoming lectures
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Economist
to address school reform
A leading
economist in the field of education studies will deliver
a lecture on the Rice campus geared toward a general audience
as well as toward education specialists and economists.

Caroline Hoxby,
the Morris Kahn Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard
University, will speak on “Options for School Reform:
Incentives and Choices” at 7 p.m. March 29 at James
A. Baker III Hall.

“Professor
Hoxby is easily one of the top two or three economists working
in the field of education studies,” said President
Malcolm Gillis. “Her work is respected far and wide
for its rigor, her writing for its clarity. What she has
to say needs to be heard by policymakers, academicians and
parents.”

Hoxby, who is
a senior adviser at the Brookings Institution’s Brown
Center for Education Policy, is the author of numerous publications.
She has an article, “All School Finance Equalizations
Are Not Created Equal,” forthcoming in the Quarterly
Journal of Economics, and last December, her article titled
“Does Competition Among Public Schools Benefit Students
and Taxpayers?” appeared in the American Economic Review.
She currently is working on a book, “The Economics
of School Choice.”

Hoxby earned
her undergraduate degree in economics from Harvard and then
went on to receive a master’s in economics from Oxford
University in England and a doctorate in economics from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

She is a faculty
research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research,
Labor, Public Economics, Higher Education and Children Programs,
a fellow with the MacArthur Foundation’s Inequality
and Social Interactions Network and a distinguished visiting
fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Lecturer at
Creekmore symposium to address multicultural education
School administrators,
teachers, students and others will gather on the Rice campus
for a two-day symposium next week that focuses on multicultural
education.

The Hazel Creekmore
Symposium, sponsored by Rice’s Center for Education,
will be held March 27-28. The topic of this year’s
symposium is “Effectively Educating Latino Students:
What Teachers Need To Know.”

Sonia Nieto,
professor of education at the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, will meet with community leaders, administrators,
teachers and students during the two-day event. Nieto is
a leading educator who combines rigorous research on multicultural
education, the education of Latinos, immigrants and other
culturally and linguistically diverse students.

The symposium
will be held in the Grand Hall of the Rice Memorial Center
beginning at 4:30 p.m., with a reception and book signing
to follow.

In addition
to the lecture, Nieto will serve on a panel March 28 at
10 a.m. in Farnsworth Pavilion at the Student Center. The
topic will be “What Keeps Teachers Going, Despite Everything.” Both the lecture and the panel discussion are open to the
public.