Presentations from the June 29-30, 2009 Workshop on the Impact of Mobility and Change on the Lives of Young Children, Schools, and Neighborhoods

WORKSHOP AGENDA

School Mobility and Educational Success: A Research Synthesis

Arthur Reynolds, School Mobility and Educational Success: A Research Synthesis and Evidence on Prevention
(commissioned paper: School Mobility and Educational Success: A Research Synthesis and Evidence on Prevention)

Panel 1: School Mobility Analyses

Valerie E. Lee, David T. Burkam, & Julie Dwyer, School Mobility in the Early Elementary Grades: Frequency and Impact from Nationally Representative Data
(commissioned paper: School Mobility in the Early Elementary Grades: Frequency and Impact From Nationally-Representative Data)

Jane Hannaway, Student Transience in North Carolina: The Effect of School Mobility on Student Outcomes Using Longitudinal Data

Lavan Dukes, Student Mobility in Primary Grades in Florida

Amy Ellen Schwartz, The Multiple Dimensions of Student Mobility: Evidence from NYC

Panel 2: Residential Mobility and Neighborhood/Family Disruption

John Fantuzzo & Heather Rouse, Homelessness, School Mobility, & Educational Well Being in a Large Urban Public School System

Kai Schafft, Poverty, Residential Mobility, and Student Transiency within Rural and Small Town Contexts

Robert Sampson, Patterns and Structure of Neighborhood Mobility Among Families in Chicago

Panel 3: Methodological Issues Concerning Causal Inferences

Eric Hanushek, Student Mobility and School Outcomes

Jens Ludwig, Methodological Considerations in Assessing Causality in Studies of Residential Mobility

Panel 4: The Policy and Programmatic Context of Mobility
Part I: The Policy Context

Sandra Newman, Residential Mobility of Children: The Housing Policy Context

Panel 4: The Policy and Programmatic Context of Mobility
Part II: Programmatic Responses Panel

July Apostolico-Buck, Policies and Practices to Mitigate the Negative Effects of Student Mobility: Observations from Arlington Public Schools

Linda Schmidt, Michigan’s Family Resource Centers: The Role of Public Human Services in Promoting Student Stability

Panel 5: Directions for Future Research

Donald Hernandez, Longitudinal and Early Childhood Datasets
(additional handout: Family Mobility and Immigrant Situation)

Greta Gibson, Utilizing Qualitative Research

Dennis Culhane, Value of Administrative Data for Measuring School and Residential Mobility and Related Services Use

Arthur Reynolds, Evidence on Prevention