Vanderbilt Professor to Give Lecture on Teacher Turnover Effect
Gary Henry
Gary Henry, the Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Public Policy and Education at Vanderbilt University, will give a lecture titled "Help Wanted: The Consequences of Teacher Turnover" at noon Friday, March 31, on the University of Arkansas campus.
The lecture is part of the Department of Education Reform lecture series. RSVP online for lunch on the lecture website. Deadline to RSVP is 1 p.m. the Wednesday before the lecture. The lecture will take place in Room 343 of the Graduate Education Building.
Henry specializes in education policy, educational evaluation, teacher quality research, and quantitative research methods. He has published extensively in top journals such as Science, Educational Researcher, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Journal of Teacher Education, and Evaluation Review. He is the author of Practical Sampling (Sage 1990), Graphing Data (Sage 1995) and co-author of Evaluation: An Integrated Framework for Understanding, Guiding, and Improving Policies and Programs (Jossey-Bass 2000).
He currently leads two educational research projects; one is the evaluation of the North Carolina Race to the Top initiative, and the other is the Teacher Quality Research Initiative for the University of North Carolina General Administration. Other, recent evaluations include North Carolina's Disadvantaged Student Supplemental Fund, Georgia's Universal Pre-K program and the Georgia HOPE Scholarship as well as school turnaround in North Carolina. Henry previously served as a principal member of the Standing Committee for Systemic Reform, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.
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Heidi S. Wells, director of communications
College of Education and Health Professions
479-575-3138,
heidisw@uark.edu
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