Meeting Agenda: June 29, 2011

Location

Institute of Education Sciences Board Room
80 F Street NW, 1st Floor
Washington, DC 20208
 

All sessions are open to the public.

Contact

For further information, contact the person below.

Monica Herk

National Board of Education Science

Agenda

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

TimesActivities
8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.Call to Order, Approval of Agenda, Chair Remarks
Jon Baron, National Board for Education Sciences (NBES) Chair
Swearing-in of New NBES Member, Kris Gutierrez
8:45 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.Update: Recent Developments at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), including the Centers for Evaluation, for Research, and for Special Education Research.
John Q. Easton, IES Director
IES Commissioners Rebecca Maynard, Lynn Okagaki
9:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.National Center for Education Statistics (NCES): Linking NCES and State Data, and Other Initiatives to Create a More Comprehensive Portrait of U.S. Students and Schools.

Opening remarks by Jack Buckley, Commissioner,
National Center for Education Statistics

Roundtable discussion by NBES members
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.Morning Break
10:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

The "Big Picture":
 

  • Within the overall Board-approved IES research priorities, what are the most important and compelling research questions and topics to address?
  • Among these, where are the gaps in knowledge the greatest and most serious?

Roundtable discussion by NBES members

12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.Box Lunch
1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Communications: What are effective ways to communicate key research findings so as to inform –
 

  • Federal, state, and local education policy?
  • Educational practice at the school or classroom level?

Opening remarks by John Q. Easton, IES Director

Opening remarks by Dr. John W. Wallace, formerly Vice President for External Affairs, MDRC

Roundtable discussion by NBES members

2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.Afternoon Break
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.Low-Cost Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs): Could They Play a Key Role in Building Knowledge About "What Works" in Education?
Opening remarks by Dr. Eric Bettinger, Stanford University School of Education

Opening remarks by Dr. Robert Slavin, Johns Hopkins University and the Success for All Foundation

Roundtable discussion by NBES members
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.Closing Remarks, including Next Steps
John Q. Easton, IES Director
Jon Baron, NBES Chair
5:00 p.m.Adjournment