The Department of Education Reform lecture series presents Rick Hess, resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and Laura Crispin, assistant professor of economics at St. Joseph's University.

Hess will speak on "Advice to Young Reformers" on Wednesday, April 5. 

Crispin's lecture is "Can Sports Reduce Bullying? Estimating Causal Effects of Sports Participation and Physical Activity on Bullying in High School" on Friday, April 7.

Both lectures will begin at noon in Room 343 of the Graduate Education Building. RSVP online for lunch on the lecture website. Deadline to RSVP is 1 p.m. today, April 3 for Hess' lecture and 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 5 for Crispin's lecture.

Hess works on K-12 and higher education issues. He writes the Education Week blog "Rick Hess Straight Up" and has served as executive editor of Education Next since 2001. He was previously a high school social studies teacher and taught at several universities. He has a book coming out later this year titled Letters to a Young Education Reformer.

Crispin has also researched bullying in elementary school, the effect of bullying on educational achievement and how school size effects student achievement and school quality.