Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:25:15 -0400
From: "Kieran M. Killeen" <kieran.killeen@uvm.edu>
Subject: An invitation for rural education SIG members...


Kai,

Though the topic of this panel will focus upon lessons learned in some high profile research projects in New York City, I believe the content will be transferable and of interest to our colleagues in rural education. I would appreciate you circulating it among the membership.

Best,

Kieran
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*American Educational Research Association's
Fiscal Issues, Policy & Education Finance (SIG) Invites you
to a special Panel Presentation. *

*LESSONS FROM NEW YORK CITY
Monday, March 24th ­ 7- 8:15 p.m.
*Sheraton New York Hotels & towers
Executive Conference Center - Conference Room D (Lower Lobby) *

The annual meeting of the Fiscal Issues, Policy and Education Finance SIG will feature a panel of America's leading education finance scholars ­ Leanna Stiefel, Hamp Lankford and Deborah Cunningham. Sharing with us their insights from decades of experience in and research on New York City's public schools, Drs.Stiefel, Lankford and Cunningham will shed new light on the importance of this great city as the intersection of fiscal issues, policy and education finance at local, state and national levels. *

---Details about the Panelists---

Leanna Stiefel, Professor of Economics at New York University Dr. Stiefel, a past president of the American Education Finance Association, will reflect on the history of her collaborative work studying NYC public schools on topics that include fiscal equity, achievement gaps, grades spans, and immigrant education.

Hamilton Lankford, Professor of Educational Policy at SUNY Albany. Dr. Lankford, whose testimony figured prominently in the historic Campaign for Fiscal Equity's school finance litigation in New York State, will discuss his latest and emergent research public school on New York City's public school teachers. In collaboration with Susanna Loeb (Stanford University) and James Wyckoff (University of Virginia), Dr. Lankford is examining the effects of the multitude of pathways aspiring teachers enter through to teach in the public schools.

Deborah Cunningham, Coordinator of Educational Management Services, New York State Department of Education and Governing Board Member of the Education Finance Research Consortium Dr. Cunningham, a member of the Governing Board of the Education Finance Research Consortium (EFRC), will describe the efforts of the consortium. EFRC is a joint academic and governmental partnership with a history of producing influential education finance policy reports.

For more information about this panel and the SIG please visit http://fipefsig.googlepages.com/

Kai Schafft
Assistant Professor
Director, Center on Rural Education and Communities
http://www.ed.psu.edu/crec/home.htm
Editor, Journal of Research in Rural Education
http://jrre.psu.edu
Department of Education Policy Studies
The Pennsylvania State University
310B Rackley Building
University Park, PA 16802-3200

PH: 814-863-2031
FAX: 814-865-0070

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