Lecture to Look at Achievement in Charter Schools

Susan M. Dynarski, associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, will give a lecture titled "Student Achievement in Charter Schools" at noon Friday, April 20, on the University of Arkansas campus.

Dynarski's lecture is part of the series sponsored by the department of education reform in the College of Education and Health Professions. It will be in Room 343 of the Graduate Education Building.

The lecture is free and open to the public and lunch will be served. To RSVP, visit the lecture series website.

In addition to her faculty appointment in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at Michigan, Dynarski is also an associate professor of education. She is a faculty research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and has been a visiting fellow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Princeton University. She is an editor of The Journal of Labor Economics and Education Finance and Policy.

Dynarski’s research focuses on charter schools, demand for private schooling, historical trends in inequality in educational attainment and the optimal design of financial aid. Her previous research explored the impact of grants and loans on educational attainment and the distributional consequences of tax incentives for college saving.

Dynarski has testified to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee and the President's Commission on Tax Reform. Her research has been funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, Russell Sage Foundation and the National Institute of Aging.