In January 2008, Robert C. Granger was elected Chairman of the National Board for Education Sciences, the presidentially appointed advisory panel of the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education. Granger also serves as the president of the New York City-based William T. Grant Foundation.
Granger, who previously served as board chair from February 2005 until January 2007, succeeds Craig T. Ramey, director of Georgetown University's Center for Health and Education, whose term expires in March 2008.
Beth Ann Bryan, senior education advisor to the law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld , was elected vice chairman of the Education Sciences board made up of prominent researchers, school administrators and business executives. All were nominated by President Bush, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and sworn in by Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings.
Other Board members are:
- Jon Baron, Executive Director of the Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy, Bethesda, Maryland.
- Carol D'Amico, Carol D'Amico, President & CEO of Conexus Indiana, Indianapolis, Indiana.
- David C. Geary, Curators' Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.
- Frank Philip Handy, CEO of Strategic Industries, LLC, Winter Park, Florida.
- Eric A. Hanushek, Chairman of the Executive Committee for the Texas Schools Project at the University of Texas at Dallas and the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University, Stanford, California.
- Caroline M. Hoxby, Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Stanford, California.
- Jerry Lee, president of WBEB 101-FM in Philadelphia and Founder of the Jerry Lee Center for Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.
- Sally E. Shaywitz, MD, Director at Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity, Yale Center for the Study of Learning, Reading and Attention at the Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
- Joseph K. Torgesen, Director of the Florida Center for Reading Research and Professor of Psychology and Education at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
