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Secretary Riley Appoints Research Policy & Priorities Board

• Jomills Henry Braddock II, professor and chair, department of sociology, University of Miami;

• Kenji Hakuta, professor of education, Stanford University;

• Sharon Lynn Kagan, senior associate, Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, Yale University;

• Glenda T. Lappan, professor of mathematics, Michigan State University;

• Edmund W. Gordon, distinguished professor of educational psychology, City University of New York;

• Patricia Ann Baltz, teacher, Camino Grove Elementary School, Arcadia, California, 1993 Disney Outstanding Teacher of the Year;

• Ann Blakeney Clark, principal, Alexander Graham Middle School, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1994 National Principal of the Year;

• Rudolph F. Crew, superintendent of schools, Tacoma, Washington;

• Robert W. Marley, elementary school teacher, Pearl Kessler School, Wichita, Kansas;

• Claire L. Pelton, associate director, Advanced Placement Program, the College Board; vice chair, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards;

• Gene Bottoms, director of High Schools That Work program in 13 southern states, Southern Regional Education Board;

• John T. Bruer, president, James S. McDonnell Foundation, expert in cognitive science and education;

• Joyce A. Muhlestein, specialist, Utah Center for Families; member, National Parent Teacher Association's Health and Welfare Commission;

• Alba A. Ortiz, associate dean for academic affairs and research, College of Education, University of Texas at Austin; specialist in bilingual and special education; and

• John Theodore (Ted) Sanders, state superintendent of schools, Ohio.

The Assistant Secretary will be a nonvoting ex-officio member. The Board will provide advice and assistance to the Assistant Secretary in choosing directors for the five research institutes (see The National Institutes at a Glance); advise the United States on the federal educational research and development effort; recommend ways to strengthen active partnerships among researchers, education practitioners, librarians, and policymakers; promote sound and solid interaction and collaboration between program offices and components; and recommend effective ways to put research into practice-appropriate forms of dissemination.

The Board's primary projects include working with the Assistant Secretary to create and implement a research priorities plan; and reviewing and approving standards for the conduct and evaluation of all research, development, and dissemination carried out by OERI.

Members selected Kenji Hakuta and Ted Sanders as cochairs.
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