PIER Public Seminar Series

PIER Public Seminar Series

The PIER Public Seminar Series is designed to explore important questions and insights in education research and policy. For the 2025-2026 academic year, seminars will take place on Tuesdays from 4-5:30 p.m in person in Eliot Lyman Room, Longfellow Hall and via livestream. Contact pier_fellowship@gse.harvard.edu with questions.

View previous seminars in the video archive.

PIER fellows interacting

Watch the PIER Seminar livestream of "What Schools Want Versus What Evidence Can Deliver" with Beth Tipton.

November 18: Why Have Girls’ Test Scores Declined Relative to Boys’ in Recent Years?

sean reardon

Professor of Poverty and Inequality in Education; Professor (by courtesy) of Sociology, Stanford University

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Sean Reardon

December 2: Activating Parental Managerial Capital in Education

Mahounan Yedomiffi

Provost Faculty Fellow; Lecturer; Assistant Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College

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Mahounan, Yedomiffi

February 3: Easy A's, Less Pay: The Long-Term Effects of Grade Inflation

Jeff Denning

Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs and Educational Leadership and Policy University of Texas at Austin

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Jeff Denning

March 3: The Impact of a Two-Generation College Pipeline Program

Lesley Turner

Associate Professor, Harris School of Public Policy University of Chicago

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Lesley Turner

April 28: What Schools Want vs. What Evidence Can Deliver

Beth Tipton

Co-Director, Statistics for Evidence-Based Policy & Practice (STEPP) Center Professor of Statistics and Data Science; Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research Northwestern University

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Email pier_fellowship@gse.harvard.edu.

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