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CEPEO Annual Lecture 2024: Educational inequality - patterns, causes, and potential solutions
04 July 2024, 6:00 pm–8:00 pm
Join this event to hear Sean Reardon discuss patterns in educational inequality and its potential solutions at the Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO)'s third annual lecture.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Centre for Education Policy and Equalising Opportunities
Location
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Central HallWesminsterLondonSW1H 9NH
Large economic and racial/ethnic disparities in test scores, graduation rates, and college-going and -completion rates remain a stubborn fact in most countries and communities. These disparities reflect inequality in the educational opportunities available from birth through secondary school to children of different racial and economic backgrounds, including inequalities in their family resources, neighborhoods, pre-schools, and their elementary and secondary schools.
In this lecture, Professor Reardon will use population data from the US, including the results of 500 million standardised tests administered from 2009-2023, to describe the patterns of educational opportunity in each of 13,000 US school districts. He will also use data from international assessments to compare the patterns of inequality in the US to those in other developed countries.
The lecture will cover the main contributors to educational inequality—preschool opportunities, residential and school segregation, and income inequality—and suggest potential strategies to create more equal educational opportunity.
This in-person event will be particularly useful for researchers, policymakers, academics and teachers.
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About the Speaker
Professor Sean Reardon
Professor of Poverty and Inequality in education; Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology at Stanford University
He is also a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), the director of the Educational Opportunity Project (EOP) and the developer of the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA).
His research focuses on the causes, patterns, trends, and consequences of social and educational inequality, the effects of educational policy on educational and social inequality, and in applied statistical methods for educational research.
He particularly studies issues of residential and school segregation, and of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in academic achievement and educational success.