National Board for Education Sciences
January 13-14, 2009 Meeting Agenda
January 13-14, 2009 Meeting Agenda
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.
| Tuesday, January 13, 2009 | |
| 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Call to Order, Approval of Agenda, Chair Remarks, and Remarks of the Executive Director Eric Hanushek, NBES Chair Norma Garza, NBES Executive Director |
| 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Update on Institute of Education Sciences (IES) Acting IES Director, Sue Betka |
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 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) |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Break for Lunch |
| 1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Presentation of Recently Released IES Studies: Arithmetic practice that promotes conceptual understanding and computational fluency, Nicole McNeil, University of Notre Dame, principal investigator |
| 2:15 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Presentation of Recently Released IES Studies: The Effects of College Remediation on Students' Academic and Labor Market Outcomes, Paco Martorell, RAND and Isaac McFarlin, University of Texas-Dallas, principal investigators |
| 3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Break |
| 3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | IES Evaluation Committee Report The Impact of Professional Development Models and Strategies on Teacher Practice and Student Achievement in Early Reading, Mike Garet, American Institute of Research, principal investigator |
| 4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Summary Views Eric Hanushek, NBES Chair |
| 5:00 p.m. | Meeting Recess |
| Wednesday, January 14, 2009 | |
| 8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Review of Prior Day's Activities and Agenda for January 14, 2009 Eric Hanushek, NBES Chair |
| 8:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Next Steps for What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) Jeff Kling, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution and WWC expert panel member; Mark Dynarski, Vice President and Director, Center for Improving Research Evidence, and Director, WWC, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.; and Jill Constantine, Associate Director of Research, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and Deputy Director, WWC |
| 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 am – 12:00 pm | Future of NBES Discussion |
| 12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Summary Views, and Next Steps Eric Hanushek, NBES Chair |
| 12:30 p.m. | Adjourn |