A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH POLICY AND PRIORITIES BOARD

WORKSHOP AGENDA

SEPTEMBER 25, 1997
80 F St., NW, Room 100
Washington, DC 20208-7564

8:00-8:30 a.m.	COFFEE
8:30-9:00 a.m.	WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION	Kenji Hakuta, Chair
	DISCUSSION OF EXPECTATIONS FOR THE WORKSHOP	John Bruer Co-Chair RD&D Committee
9:00-10:30 a.m.	THE EDUCATION RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT AND DISSEMINATION SYSTEM --NOW AND IN THE FUTURE A description of the strengths and weaknesses of the existing system, suggestions of issues the Board should address, and perspectives on opportunities for the future MODERATOR: John Bruer PANELISTS: Mike Timpane, Senior Researcher, the RAND Corporation;former President of Teachers College, Columbia University; Senior Staff Member of Carnegie Foundation on Teaching Jane Hannaway, Director of the Education Policy Center at the Urban Institute; Researcher on Leave from Stanford University Ricky Takai, Acting Assistant Secretary for OERI
10:30-10:45 a.m.	BREAK
10:45-12:15 p.m.	THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN RESEARCH AND PRACTICE -- WHEN THEY WORK NOW, WHEN THEY DO NOT, AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FUTURE An analytic treatment of the conditions associated with successful, as well as ineffective, links between research and practice, suggested issues the Board should address, and perspectives on the ways the RD&D system could be made more productive in the future. MODERATOR: John Bruer PANELISTS: Tom Glennan, Director of the RAND Evaluation of New American Schools; First Director of the National Institute of Education Carol Johnson, Superintendent of the Minneapolis, Minnesota Public Schools; former Superintendent, St. Louis Park District, Minnesota Robert Slavin, Co-Director of the Center for Research on the Education of Students Placed At-Risk, Johns Hopkins University
12:30-1:45 p.m.	WORKING LUNCH Presentation and Discussion with Congressman Major R. Owens of New York
2:00-3:45 p.m.	BOARD DISCUSSION, PART I	Lynn Kagan, Moderator
4:00-5:00 p.m.	BOARD DISCUSSION, PART II	Lynn Kagan, Moderator
	These discussion periods will provide full opportunity for Board members to raise other questions with those panelists who remain, to clarify their view of the questions needing further explanation, to consider whether committee membership should be supplemented with others from outside the Board, and to advance, as far as possible, the opinions of Board members about the RD&D System.
	Suggested discussion questions include: What does each member believe are the one or two most pressing issues the Board should address about the RD&D System generally; about connections between research and practice? We have said the purpose of the Workshop is to help the Board clarify questions at the outset of committee work on the RD&D System. On the basis of your own experience, your work on the Board, and the discussions from this morning, what would you say the RD&D System questions are that this Board should address? We have also said that we wanted to use the Workshop to help us determine whether the Committee should supplement its membership of Board participants with others from outside the Board. Do we have new views on that question? As we begin our look at the RD&D System; and based on our own experience, today's discussion, the historical paper from Maris; what do we think should be done to build a strong and effective RD&D System?

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