FInd out on Thurs 1 Oct at 11:15 am in Kimmel 900 at NYU: Dr. Michael Foster from UNC will present the 4th Statistics in Society lecture, entitled: “Does Special Education Actually Work?” This talk will explore the efficacy of current special education policies while highlighting the role of new methods in causal inference in to helping answer it. It is jointly sponsored by the Departments of Teaching and Learning and Applied Psychology, and by the Institute for Human Development and Social Change.

I’d definitely go to this if I were in town.