Pictures: Education Happy Hour (October 10th, 2012)

Thank you for attending to our joint Education happy hour at Amsterdam Cafe! We had the opportunity to meet students interested in Education across different Columbia and NYU graduate schools.

Follow up: Brown Bag | Education: Fostering Change or Protecting the Status Quo?

Professor Ginsburg

Professor Urquiola

We had a very interesting conversation with Professor Urquiola and Professor Ginsburg about the role of education in development and in overcoming inequality. Professor Urquiola presented an approach from an economics perspective and discussed how the design of an educational system influences the way in which inequality is passed down (or not passed down) from one generation to the next. Professor Ginsburg challenged us to think about education from a human rights perspective and offered an alternative set of "rules" that could be used to redefine the way citizens are educated.

Check the papers that the professors shared with us and the pictures of the event here.

Pictures: Happy hour (March 22nd, 2012)

Thank you for attending to our first happy hour! Empanadas and mojitos at Havana Central were the perfect complement for a good conversation between students from SIPA, Teachers College and the School of Social Work. Looking forward to see you all in our next event!

Pictures: NYC Department of Education event (March 22nd, 2012)

The Center for Public Research and Leadership (CPRL) organized this great event in partnership with the Education Collaborative, Education Law & Policy Society (Columbia Law School), Education Law & Policy Society (NYU Law School), Policy Student Network (Teachers College) and the Social Enterprise Club (Columbia Business School).

We met Paymon Rouhanifard, Executive Director, and other members of the Office of Portfolio Management team to discuss the portfolio approach and job opportunities at the DOE.

Check the pictures here.

Take a minute to support the dual degree between SIPA and Teachers College

Hi members of the SIPA Education group,

Today's happy hour was a good moment to talk about the future of the group and other education-related topics, while drinking a good beer :)

Looking forward to see those of you that couldn't come in the next activities!

Please, remember that if you want to share events/activities with the group, you can find the members' contact details in our Google Doc http://bit.ly/sipaed and send us a mail.

In this email:

1) Take a minute to support the dual degree between SIPA and Teachers College

2) Still looking for interesting courses at TC? TOMORROW Thursday: Policy Course Advisement @TC

3) Panel “For‐Profit Schooling and the Politics of Education Reform in Chile”. Next Monday.

Content

1) Take a minute to support the dual degree between SIPA and Teachers College

• As we told you in a previous email, Jordan Brensinger (MIA 2013) has proposed SIPA to start a new dual degree with Teachers College.
• We know that if we want this idea to come true, the students (we) have to show interest and pressure.
• If you think this is an interesting idea, we invite you to take concrete action:
• Go to the Town Hall discussion board in Courseworks, look for Jordan's post under "Category: DUAL DEGREES" and add a message supporting it. Would be great to have the post with more messages. The discussion board will close this Friday.
  
• Also, you can go to the actual Town Hall to show your support: 6-8pm,Tuesday, December 6, 2011. 15th Floor IAB 1501.

2) Still looking for interesting courses at TC? Tomorrow Thursday: Policy Course Advisement @TC

We wanted to share with you an activity organized by the Policy Student Network @ Teachers College:

Policy Course Advisement

·    Want to know what policy courses are being offered next semester?

·    Looking for information about classes and professors?

·    Looking to share wisdom about classes and professors?

·    Got questions about classes outside of TC?

·    Just want a break from finals-stuff?

·    Wine?  Snacks?

Thursday, December 1, 2011

7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Horace Mann 144

Wine and light refreshments will be served.

3) Panel "“For‐Profit Schooling and the Politics of Education Reform in Chile”. Next Monday.

For those of you interested in privatization and vouchers: the panelists will discuss the scholarly and policy debate, the evidence, and the international experience. They will analyze the Chilean case, where the consequences are being widely debated.

Moderated by Susan Fuhrman, President of Teachers College Panelists:

• Gregory Elacqua, Director of the Institute of Public Policy at the School of Economics at the Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago‐Chile
• Henry Levin, William H. Kilpatrick Professor of Economics & Education at Teachers College
• Miguel Urquiola, Professor of Economics at the School of International and Public Affairs and Department of Economics, Columbia University

RSVP by Thursday, December 1st by email to paupachecoflanagan@gmail.com

Cheers,

Pablo.