Location
Institute of Education Sciences Board Room
80 F Street NW, 1st Floor
Washington, DC 20001
Contact
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Agenda
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
| Times | Activities |
|---|---|
| 8:30 a.m. –8:45 a.m. | Call to Order, Approval of Agenda, Chair Remarks Bridget Terry Long, National Board for Education Sciences (NBES) Chair |
| 8:45 a.m. –9:30 a.m. | Update: Recent Developments at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), including the Centers for Evaluation (NCEE), for Research (NCER), for Special Education Research (NCSER), and for Statistics (NCES) John Q. Easton, IES Director IES Commissioners Rebecca Maynard, Elizabeth Albro (Acting), Deborah Speece, and Jack Buckley |
| 9:30 a.m. –10:45 a.m. | Communicating Research Effectively to Diverse Audiences Rebecca Maynard, Commissioner, NCEE, on updates to the What Works Clearinghouse John Hutchins, Communications Director, MDRC, on MDRC's approach to communicating research findings to multiple audiences |
| 10:45 a.m. –11:00 a.m. | Morning Break |
| 11:00 a.m. –12:15 p.m. | Recent Research on Instructional Quality Douglas Staiger, John French Professor of Economics, Dartmouth University Helen Ladd, Edgar T. Thompson Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics, Duke University |
| 12:15 p.m. –12:45 p.m. | Box Lunch |
| 12:45 p.m. –1:00 p.m. | Board members travel by taxi to 400 Maryland Avenue, SW |
| 1:30 p.m. –1:45 p.m. | New Board members are sworn in by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan |
| 1:50 p.m. –2:00 p.m. | Board members return via shuttle to the IES Board Room, 80 F Street NW |
| 2:15 p.m. –3:30 p.m. | IES's Peer Review Process: Review Panel Criteria, Recruitment, and Training Dr. Anne Ricciuti, IES Deputy Director for Science NBES roundtable discussion |
| 3:30 p.m. –3:45 p.m. | Afternoon Break |
| 3:45 p.m. –4:45 p.m. | Legislative and Policy Issues NBES roundtable discussion of the ESRA markup by the May 2008 Board and the current Board's consensus NBES roundtable discussion of the draft Scientific Integrity Policy for the U.S. Department of Education |
| 4:45 p.m. –5:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks, including Next Steps John Q. Easton, IES Director Bridget Terry Long, NBES Chair |
| 5:00 p.m. | Adjourn |