Mark Berends
Professor of Sociology and Education, University of Notre Dame
Education Policy Speaker Series
Mark Berends
Professor of Sociology and Education, University of Notre Dame
Professor of Sociology and Education, University of Notre Dame
DATE: February 28, 2019, 1:30 P.M. to 3:00 P.M.
LOCATION: Erickson Hall, Room 133F
Mark Berends (Ph.D., Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison) is a professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, where he directs the Center for Research on Educational Opportunity (CREO). He has written and published extensively on educational reform, standards based reform, school choice, the effects of family and school changes on student achievement trends and gaps, and the effects of schools and classrooms on student achievement. His research focuses on how school organization and classroom instruction are related to student outcomes, with special attention to disadvantaged students and school reforms aimed at improving their educational opportunities. Within this agenda, he has applied a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods to understanding the effects of school reforms on teachers and students. Currently, he is conducting several studies on school choice, including an examination of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program, parent decision making and satisfaction in a lottery-based study of charter schools, and how school organizational and instructional conditions are related to student achievement gains in charter, private, and traditional public schools. Professor Berends serves on numerous editorial boards, technical panels, and policy forums; he is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA); former co-editor of AERA’s American Educational Research Journal, former editor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and former vice president of the AERA’s Division L, Educational Policy and Politics. His latest books are School Choice and School Improvement (Harvard Education Press, 2011), the International Handbook of the Sociology of Education (SAGE, forthcoming), the Handbook of Research on School Choice, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2019), and School Choice at the Crossroads: Research Perspectives (Routledge, 2019).
EPIC works with state and district partners to create a targeted research agenda to learn which reform strategies are most effective, where, when and for whom.
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