Education Policy Speaker Series

Through collaboration among the MSU’s College of Education’s Department of Educational Administration, the MSU’s Education Policy Innovation Center and partner MSU colleges, the Education Policy Speaker Series (EPSS) hosts and amplifies some of the leading voices in education research and policy to share their research and speak about the issues that are top-of-mind in education policy today.

For the 2024-25 academic year, the seminars will take place from 10:30am – noon EST in Erickson Hall 252.

2024-25 Education Policy Speaker Series

Past Speakers

2023-2024

• Dr. Raquel Rall – Business as Usual in Precarious Times? Higher Education Governing Boards and the Equity Proposition
• Dr. Erica Turner – Race-Evasive Managerialism: How School Districts Respond to Growing Diversity and Inequality
• Dr. Kevin Stange – Skills, Majors, and Jobs: Does Higher Education Respond?
• Dr. Melissa Lyon – The Causes and Consequences of Teacher Strikes, 2007-Present
• Dr. Chloe Gibbs – A Matter of Time? The Impact of Full-Day Kindergarten Expansions
• Dr. Richard Welsh – Examining the Importance of Intersectionality and Neighborhoods in School Discipline
• Dr. NaLette Brodnax – Top-Down Discipline: The Role of Carceral Ideology in the Formation of Public Schools’ Disciplinary Regimes

2022-2023

• Dr. Sarah Cohodes – STEM Summer Programs for Underrepresented Youth Increase STEM Degrees
• Dr. Sally Nuamah – How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans
• Dr. Beth Schueler – Improving Low-Performing K-12 School Systems: Policies and Politics
• Dr. Ericka Weathers – Truancy and Truancy Policy in K-12 Education
• Dr. Katherine Michelmore – What’s the Power of Certainty? Experimental Evidence on the Effective Design of Free Tuition Policies
• Dr. Matthew Nelson – The Color of Civics: Civic Education for a Multiracial Democracy
• Mrs. Paula Herbart – A Conversation with Paula Herbart, President, Michigan Education Association

2021-2022

• Dr. Constance A. Lindsay – A Scalable Empathic-Mindset Intervention Reduces Group Disparities in School Suspensions
• Dr. Christopher A. Neilson – Smart Matching Platforms and Heterogeneous Beliefs in Centralized School Choice
• Dr. Michael Rice – Superintendent, Michigan Department of Education
• Dr. Sarah Winchell Lenhoff – Director, Detroit Education Research Project
• Dr. A. Brooks Bowden – Designing Impact Studies to Include Cost-Effectiveness Research
• Dr. Jonathan Collins – School Board Democracy During a Time of Crisis