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John Bates Clark Medal Award Ceremony [video]

January 4, 2016

Awardee | Watch as Roland Fryer, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, receives the American Economic Association's  John Bates Clark Medal. In his remarks, Fryer reflects on "the true owners who have paved the way for all of us who use the tools of economics not just to calculate the odds for poor people, but to change the odds." [begins at 15:45 mark]



The 2016 Education Scholar Public Influence Rankings: Top Tens

January 7, 2016

Education Week | Inequality & Social Policy faculty and alumni are well-represented on this year's Education Week list of 200 most influential education scholars, university-based scholars "who are doing the most to influence education policy and practice." Of special note, alumni hold four of the top five spots on the junior faculty list, including Martin West, David Deming, and Jal Mehta (Harvard), and Judith Scott-Clayton (Columbia TC).



ESSA Accountability Design Competition: The Contenders

January 28, 2016

Thomas B. Fordham Institute | Ronald F. Ferguson of the Harvard Kennedy School is one of ten finalists in the Fordham Institute's ESSA Accountability Design Competition. Under the newly enacted Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states now face the challenge of creating school accountability systems that can vastly improve upon the model required by No Child Left Behind. To help spur creative thinking about how they might do so, and to inform the Department of Education as it develops its ESSA regulations, the Fordham Institute is sponsoring this competition. The ten finalists will pitch their work on the Fordham stage to a live audience and a panel of judges on February 2.



Roland Fryer: 2015 John Bates Clark Medalist

February 3, 2016

Journal of Economic Perspectives | By Lawrence F. Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics: "Roland Fryer is an extraordinary applied microeconomist whose research output related to racial inequality, the US racial achievement gap, and the design and evaluation of educational policies make him a worthy recipient of the 2015 John Bates Clark Medal. I will divide this survey of Roland's research into five categories..."



Nathan Hendren named a 2016 Sloan Research Fellow

February 23, 2016

Awardee | Nathaniel Hendren, Assistant Professor of Economics, is one of 126 early-career scientists and scholars selected for the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship, which recognizes the next generation of leaders in eight scientific fields. Harvard colleague Melissa Dell, also an Assistant Professor of Economics, was likewise named a 2016 Sloan Research Fellow. Read the press release.



Paul Peterson Receives Prize for Best Academic Paper on School Choice and Reform

March 15, 2016

Awardee | Paul E. Peterson, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard Kennedy School, and Matthew M. Chingos, a senior fellow at the Urban Institute, have been selected as winners of the 2016 Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Prize for their paper “Experimentally estimated impacts of school vouchers on college enrollment and degree attainment,” named best academic paper on school choice and reform.



City Year New Hampshire honors Robert Putnam with Lifetime of Service award

March 26, 2016

Awardee | Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, is the recipient of City Year New Hampshire's Lifetime of Service Award.



Mary Waters selected to give Henry and Bryna David Lecture at National Academy of Sciences

May 3, 2016

Awardee | Mary C. Waters, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology, has been selected to give the 2016 Henry and Bryna David Lecture at the National Academy of Sciences. The Henry and Bryna David Endowment awards innovative research in the behavioral and social sciences by selecting a leading expert and researcher to write an article in their field to be presented at the National Academy of Sciences and published in Issues in Science and Technology.  The lecture will be webcast live May 3, 2016, at 5 pm.

Waters first presented this work, "The War on Crime and the War on Immigrants: New Forms of Legal Exclusion and Discrimination in the U.S.," in the Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series, March 7, 2016.



Christopher Winship named an Edmond J. Safra Fellow-in-Residence

March 31, 2016

Awardee | Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology, has been selected an Edmond J. Safra Fellow-in-Residence for the 2016-17 academic year. During the fellowship year, Winship will be working on an evaluation of community-police relations in Boston.



Orlando Patterson receives Anisfeld-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award

April 7, 2016

Harvard Gazette |Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the 2016 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, presented by The Cleveland Foundation.

Read additional coverage from The Cleveland Plain Dealer: "The Anisfield-Wolf Awards, established in 1935, are given to books that confront racism, examine diversity and expand society's understanding of class and justice". Past winners include Nadine Gordimer, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and Toni Morrison.

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