11/17/2008 ~ 11/18/2008 at  Cowin Center, Teachers College

Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Michigan

Presentation Topic:

• A Comprehensive 0-18 Cost Analysis [Summary to be posted soon]

Tamara Wilder is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the CLOSUP Research Center at the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. She is a 2007-08 Spencer Foundation Dissertation Fellow.  Her research focuses on equity issues, accountability, school choice, and parent and community involvement in schools. Prior to  graduate school she worked as a community organizer in Oakland, CA.   

Ms. Wilder received her M.A. in Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences from Columbia University and her Ph.D. in Politics and Education from Columbia University.

Presentation Paper

• Narrowing the Achievement Gap for Low-Income Children: A 19-Year Life Cycle Approach

Speakers:

• Larry Aber
  NYU Steinhardt School Culture, Education, and Human Development
• Whitney Allgood (co-author)
  Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Chuck Basch
  Columbia University
• Tony Blair
  
• Martin Blank
  Coalition for Community Schools, Institute for Educational Leadership
• Charles Brecher
  Citizens Budget Commission
• Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
  Teachers College, Columbia University
• Geoffrey Canada
  Harlem Children’s Zone
• Lori Connors-Tadros
  The Finance Project
• Arne Duncan
  Chicago Public Schools
• Howard Everson
  Fordham University
• Lucy Friedman
  The After-School Corporation
• Susan Fuhrman
  Teachers College, Columbia University
• Edmund Gordon
  Teachers College, Columbia University
• Carl Hayden
  Chemung County School Readiness Project
• Randi Hewit
  Community Foundation of Elmira-Corning and the Finger Lakes
• Julie Higson
  ContinYou (UK)
• Sharon Lynn Kagan
  Teachers College, Columbia University
• Helen Ladd
  Duke University
• Henry Levin
  Teachers College, Columbia University
• Roger Maldonado
  Balber Pickard Maldonado & Van der Tuin
• Milbrey McLaughlin
  Stanford University
• Larry Mishel
  Economic Policy Institute
• Pedro Noguera
  NYU Steinhardt School Culture, Education, and Human Development
• Gov. David Paterson
  State of New York
• Jane Quinn
  Children’s Aid Society
• Michael Rebell
  Teachers College, Columbia University
• Roberto Rodriguez
  Office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy
• Richard Rothstein
  Economic Policy Institute
• Torey Silloway
  The Finance Project
• Paul Tough
  New York Times Magazine
• Randi Weingarten
  American Federation of Teachers
• Heather Weiss
  Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Tamara Wilder (co-author)
  University of Michigan
• Jay Worona
  New York State School Boards Association