During his stay, Adam Gamoran gave two presentations. The first talk, entitled "Accountability and Inequality in U.S. Education," provided an overview of the development of evaluation programs to assess the performance of individual schools by the federal government in the U.S. In his second talk, Adam Gamoran presented preliminary results from a large experimental study in school districts in Phoenix and San Antonio (both U.S.) that estimated the causal effect of social capital on several educationally relevant variables ("Causal Effects of Social Capital on Child Outcomes," more information:
http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/projects/projects.php?project_num=427.
During his stay, Adam Gamoran was in lively exchange especially with the young scientists at NEPS.