Location
Institute of Education Sciences Board Room
1st Floor
80 F Street, NW
Washington, DC
All sessions are open to the public.
Contact
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Agenda
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
| Times | Activities |
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| 1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. | Call to Order, Approval of Agenda, Chair Remarks, and Remarks by the Executive Director Eric Hanushek, National Board for Education Sciences (NBES) Chair Norma Garza, NBES Executive Director |
| 1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Priorities of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) IES Research Priorities
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| 2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | IES Priorities — Board Discussion |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Ex Officio Member Agency Overview and Remarks from Jon Baron, National Science Board Meeting |
| 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Presentations by Judy Wurtzel , Deputy Assistant Secretary for Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, U. S. Department of Education; Jim Shelton, Assistant Deputy Secretary for Office of Innovation and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education |
| 5:00 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. | Update on IES Center Activity IES Commissioners and Staff: National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance (NCEE) National Center for Education Research (NCER) National Center for Special Education Research (NCSER) National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) |
| 5:45 p.m. | Meeting Recess |
Thursday, April 8, 2010
| Times | Activities |
|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. | Call to Order and Agenda for April 7, 2010 Eric Hanushek, NBES Chair |
| 8:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Presentation of Recently Released IES Studies |
| 8:30 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. | Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement: An Experimental Evaluation Thomas J. Kane, Deputy Director for Research and Data, College Ready Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Professor of Education and Economics, Harvard Graduate School of Education |
| 9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | The Role of Simplification and Information in College Decisions: Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment Bridget T. Long, Investigator, Professor of Education and Economics Harvard University, Graduate School of Education |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Middle School Mathematics Professional Development Impact Study: Findings from the First Year of Implementation Mike S. Garet, principal investigator, Vice-President at American Institutes for Research |
| 10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Break |
| 11:00 a.m. –11:45 a.m. | Presentation by Russlynn Ali, Assistant Secretary for Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education |
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | What Works Clearinghouse Update Scott Cody, Deputy Director of the What Works Clearinghouse, Associate Director of Research Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. |
| 12:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Open Board Discussion and Next Steps Eric Hanushek, NBES Chair |
| 12:45 p.m. | Adjournment |