Professor
National Education Policy Center at the University of Colorado-Boulder
Professor Kevin Welner teaches educational policy and law at the CU Boulder School of Education. He’s also the director of the National Education Policy Center, which works to build bridges between the research world and the broader public. Welner has authored or edited a dozen books and more than 100 articles and book chapters, including a casebook for law school students about education law, and a book called Closing the Opportunity Gap, which is the foundation for his recent work about the importance of improving children’s opportunities to learn inside and outside of school. Welner has been recognized by the American Educational Research Association (AERA) as a Fellow and been given the AERA's Outstanding Public Communication of Education Research Award (in 2017), Early Career Award (in 2006), and Palmer O. Johnson Award (best article in 2004). The Horace Mann League gave Welner its Outstanding Public Educator Award in 2018. He received his B.A. in Biological Sciences from UCSB and his J.D. and Ph.D. from UCLA.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM MST
Beyond Adequate Funding: How We’re Studying What a “Great Equalizer” School System Would Look Like
Sunday, February 18, 2024
10:15 AM – 11:15 AM MST