The following message is being forwarded on behalf of Sandy Korenman and Hilary Botein.

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Hello all --

Kevin Lang of Boston University will present "The Evolution of the Black-White Test Score Gap in Grades K-3: The Fragility of Results”  to the School of Public Affairs Faculty seminar on WEDNESDAY November 9 from 12:30 to 2 in Room 308, 135 East 22nd Street.   The paper is attached.  Everyone is invited to join Kevin for lunch in the seminar room at 12:00 (BYOL).  Kevin will also be available to meet individually with faculty after the seminar. Please contact Sandy at [log in to unmask] to schedule a meeting.

Some background:
Professor Lang recently served on the NAS/NRC Panel on Incentives and Test-Based Accountability in Public Education and is currently a member of the Board on Testing and Assessment.  
His recent writings include: 

Measurement Matters: Perspectives on Education Policy from an Economist and School Board Member in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 2010), a working paper version of which is attached for your interest (though he won’t be presenting this paper at the seminar).
Poverty and Discrimination (Princeton University Press, 2007).
Racial Discrimination in the Labor Market: Theory and Empirics, forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Literature.
Many of his working papers are available for download from his web page at BU:
http://people.bu.edu/lang/

We hope to see you on Wednesday.  The schedule for the rest of the semester is pasted below.

Hilary and Sandy

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11. 9       (Wednesday) Kevin Lang, BU, Economics. Test-Based Accountability.

11.15       Jennifer Jennings, NYU Sociology. Evaluating School Performance Using Longer Term Measures of Student
Outcomes

11.22       Susan Chambre, Baruch College,  Anthro/Soc. Global AIDS activism in the US, Brazil, and South Africa

11.29       John Casey, Baruch College, SPA. Comparative study of national nonprofit sectors


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