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

All sessions are open to the public.

For further information, please contact Mary Grace Lucier at (202) 219-2253 or Mary.Grace.Lucier@ed.gov.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
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) John Easton, IES Director View the priorities as a PDF (205 KB)
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
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