Adam Gamoran, president of the William T. Grant Foundation , will join Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research Director Ruth López Turley at 7 p.m. March 20 for a conversation about education policy and the potential for research to address wide-ranging challenges in education.
The event will be held in the Brown Auditorium Theater at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Law Building, located at 1001 Bissonnet St. in Houston. The event is free, but RSVPs are required.
The William T. Grant Foundation supports research aimed at improving the lives of young people in the United States. Gamoran provides leadership for the foundation’s strategic direction, shapes its agenda and tactics and partners with the foundation’s board of trustees to advance its mission and objectives. Since joining the foundation, he launched a new initiative to support research on reducing inequality in youth outcomes and has continued the foundation’s ongoing work to improve the use of research evidence in policy and practice decisions that affect young people.
Gamoran’s research has focused on educational inequality and school reform. From 1984 to 2013, he served on the faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he held the John D. MacArthur Chair in Sociology and Educational Policy Studies. From 2001-04, he chaired the Department of Sociology, and from 2004-13 he directed the Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
More information on Gamoran is online at: https://kinder.rice.edu/events/kinder-institute-forum-adam-gamoran.
For more information on the event, parking information or to RSVP, visit: https://kinder.rice.edu/events/kinder-institute-forum-adam-gamoran.
The Kinder Institute Forum lecture series brings thought leaders from around the world to Houston to share ideas about today’s most pressing urban issues. Previous speakers include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond, global urbanist Richard Florida, historian Richard Rothstein, urban advocate and strategist Carol Coletta, education leader Ruth J. Simmons and U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert L. Santos.