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Seminar Series – Spring 2026The Education Research Section (ERS), an interdisciplinary unit in The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, promotes the use of high-quality research in education decision-making. We conduct, support, and promote education research, and disseminate results to educators, policymakers,…
Predictive models are increasingly used in decision-making pipelines, and the statistical information derived from their outputs is often treated as if it preserves classical coverage guarantees. This talk examines how such guarantees can fail when estimates are constructed from synthetic or inferred data rather than directly…
Democratic responses to climate change will be determined by how institutions such as deliberative bodies make sense of decarbonization. In a novel ethnography of the deliberations to achieve New York’s climate target, one of the world’s most ambitious, I show how norms of talk shape how people temporally coordinate action to…
