Schedule

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Wednesday, November 28th

1. 9:00 – 10:00 AMRegistration, coffee 
2. 10:00 – 10:15 AMWelcome
3. 10:15 – 11:45 AM Session I: Legal Context and Constraints
   • The Real Scoop on the Supreme Court’s Seattle/Louisville Decision
     • Maree Sneed, Hogan & Hartson, LLC.
   • Discussant: John Brittain, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights (.PPT)
4. 12:00 – 1:30 PM Lunch - Student Union, Student Union Room 304B
• Speaker: Mary Ellen Elia, Hillsborough County FL
5. 1:30 – 3:00 PM Session II: Effects of Choice on Student Segregation I

• Same-Race Affinities, Out-group Aversion, or Economic Determinism?: Private School Choice and Racial Segregation in Public Schools (.PPT)
  • Salvatore Saporito, The College of William and Mary
• School Choice Beyond District Borders: Lessons Learned from Inter-district Desegregation and Open Enrollment Plans (.PPT)
  • Jennifer Jellison Holme, University of Texas, Austin
  • Amy Stuart Wells, Teachers College, Columbia University
• Discussant: Jack Dougherty, Trinity College
1. 3:00 – 3:15 PM Break, Refreshments
2. 3:15 – 4:45 PM Session III: Effects of Choice on Student Segregation II
   • Public School Choice and Integration: Evidence from Durham, North Carolina (.PPT)
     • Robert Bifulco, University of Connecticut
   • Toward an Understanding of Parents’ Preferences for Schools (.PPT)
     • Courtney Bell, University of Connecticut
   • Discussant: Chris Lubienski, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3. 6:30 – 9:30 PM Dinner & reception at the Altnaveigh Restaurant, Storrs, CT

Thursday, November 29th

1. 7:45 AM Shuttle leaves Hotel
2. 8:00 – 8:30 AM Continental breakfast at conference site
3. 8:30 – 10:00 AM Session IV: Effects of School Choice on Achievement I
   • Does School Choice Boost the Achievement of those Who Win the Lotteries? (.PPT)
     • Julian Betts, UC San Diego
   • Magnet Schools and Peers: Effects on Student Achievement (.PPT)
     • Dale Ballou, Vanderbilt University
   • Discussant: Rajashri Chakrabarti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
4. 10:00 – 10:15 AM Break
5. 10:15 – 11:45 AM Session V: Effects of School Choice on Achievement II
   • Information, School Choice, and Academic Achievement: Evidence from Two Experiments (.PPT)
     • Justine Hastings, Yale University
   • Charter schools, racial segregation, and student achievement: Implications for the reauthorization of NCLB’s choice provisions and other school choice expansion (.PPT)
     • Janelle Scott, New York University
   • Discussant: Eric Brunner, Quinnipiac University (.PPT)
6. 11:45 – 1:00 PM Lunch - Student Union, Student Union Room 304B
7. 1:00 – 2:30 PM Session VI: School Choice in the Schools
   • Institutional vs. Technical Environments: A Framework for Analysis of Evolving Charter School Organizations (.PPT)
     • Luis Huerta, Columbia University
   • The Shifting Policy Landscape Impacting Parent Choice Issues of Racial Diversity after Unitary Status in Nashville (.PPT)
     • Claire Smrekar, Vanderbilt University
   • Discussant: George Coleman, Connecticut State Department of Education
8. 2:30 – 3:00 PM Closing Remarks