Dan E. Sweat Lecture Series - 2006
Third Annual Dan E. Sweat Lecture
“Accountability and the Classroom: A New Light Inside the Black Box of Schooling”
The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies and The Fiscal Research Center hosted the third Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Lecture on October 24, 2006. The guest speaker for the lecture was Jane Hannaway, Director of Education Policy Center at The Urban Institute. The seminar by Dr. Hannaway was held in the Andrew Young School's seminar room (7th Floor, AYS Building, 14 Marietta Street, NW) at 3:00pm.
Jane Hannaway is an organizational sociologist whose work focuses on the study of educational organizations. She is founding Director of the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. and part of the Institute’s senior management team. She just recently also became the director of a new federally funded national research center, CALDER (Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research), focused on analyses of state longitudinal student and teacher level administrative databases, particularly analyses associated with teacher labor markets. Much of her recent research has focused on structural reforms in education, including reforms promoting accountability, competition, and choice.
Hannaway previously served on the faculty of Columbia, Princeton, and Stanford Universities. She has authored or co-authored seven books and numerous papers in education and management journals. Her most recent book is Collective Bargaining in Education: Negotiating Change in Today’s Schools with Andrew Rotherham, published by Harvard Education Press. She served twice as vice president of the American Educational Research Association and also served on the Executive Board. She also was elected to the Council of the Association for Public Policy and Management (APPAM) and is a member of the advisory committee to the U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) for education studies. Hannaway serves on the editorial board of a number of journals and is past editor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, the main policy journal of the American Educational Research Association. She is currently on the Executive Board of the American Education Finance Association. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University.
More information on the lecture can be found here
