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Washington, DC 20208--7564
80 F St. NW, Room 100
Washington, DC 20208--7564
Members Attending:
Kenji Hakuta, Chair
Adela Acosta
Jomills H. Braddock
Williamson M. Evers
Barbara R. Foorman
Paul Goren
Robert W. Marley
Alba A. Ortiz
Lea Schelke (by teleconference)
Members Absent:
Patricia Ann Baltz
James E. Bottoms
Douglas W. Carnine
Glenda T. Lappan
Annemarie S. Palincsar
Claire L. Pelton
Ex Officio Members Present:
Grover Whitehurst, Assistant Secretary, OERI
Candace Katz, delegate, National Endowment for the Humanities
Bruce Fuchs and Bonnie Kalberer, delegates, National Institutes of Health
Martha Gutierrez-Steinkamp and Lee Kessler, delegates, National Endowment for the Arts
Eric Hamilton, delegate, National Science Foundation
Board Staff Present:
Rafael Valdivieso
OERI Staff Present:
Steve O'Brien, Ram Singh, Ron Anson, Sheila McGarr, Maureen Treacy, Marty Orland, Pat Ross, Sue Betka, Carol Chelemer, Cheryl Kane, Marc Constas, Sharon Horn, Harold Himmelfarb, Stephanie Dalton, Jim Fox, Peirce Hammond, Barbara Humes, Sue Klein, Naomi Karp, Valerie Reyna, Norma Fleishman, Greg Dennis, Stephanie Dalton, Brenda Wolff, Gary Phillips
U.S. Department of Education Staff Present:
Sean Dent and Sergio Kapfer, Office of the General Counsel
Designated Federal Official:
Mary Grace Lucier
Members of the Public Present
Sandi Wurtz, AERA; Chris Ryan, COSSA; Karen Studwell, APA; Meredith Bosler, SRCD; Gerald Sroufe, AERA; David Johnson, AERA; William Morrill, Caliber; Rich Hershman, NEKIA; John L. Goss, AERA; Charles Haughey, AERA; Rhonda Munford, Caliber; Moira Bohannon, Houghton Mifflin; Michael Feuer, Lisa Towne, and Tina Winters, NRC
Assistant Secretary Whitehurst administered the oath of office to Secretary Paige's recent appointees to the Board, Adela Acosta, Bill Evers, and Barbara Foorman. The chair called the meeting to order at 9:20 a.m
Information Items
Assistant Secretary Whitehurst offered a vision statement concerning the value of educational research, the need to make decisions in education on the basis of evidence, the awareness of these issues on the part of the President, the leadership of the Department, and the need to improve the quality and relevance of the work of OERI. He announced four new "research initiatives" for FY 2002 (which will continue over a number of years):
Further discussion continued on issues affecting the reauthorization of OERI and what would be the optimal organizational structure for a successor body.
Congressman Michael N. Castle offered remarks on H.R. 1, the No Child Left Behind legislation, which was about to go to conference and the OERI reauthorization. Congressman Castle would favor a restructured and streamlined OERI and the return of nonresearch activity to other parts of the Department. He emphasized the importance of "scientific research," which is clearly labeled by the type and quality of methodology used to reach its conclusions, and expressed the hope that such legislation would be advanced in 2002.
Lisa Towne gave a briefing on the key themes of a report issued by the Committee on Scientific Principles in Education Research of the National Research Council (NRC). The report, Scientific Inquiry in Education, had been prepared under contract to the Board and was released in prepublication form on November 29, 2001. Discussion ensued as to the dissemination of the report and further exploration of its implications for stakeholders. A dissemination event, jointly sponsored by the National Academy of Education, will take place at the NRC on January 10-11.
William Morrill briefed the Board on issues raised in his report to the Peer Review and Standards Committee on the Evaluation of the Expert Panel Review System for Identifying Exemplary and Promising Practices and on the options for Board action derived from that report.
Members received their annual briefing on Standards of Conduct for Special Government Employees by Joan Bardee, Assistant General Counsel, Ethics Division, Office of the General Counsel.
Action Items
The Board approved the minutes of its last meeting, Sept. 22, 2000.
The Board recommended that the Peer Review and Standards Committee review the Phase Two standards and make changes to reflect the day's discussion and further to reflect the recommendations of the NRC report.
The Board accepted the recommendation of the Nominating Committee and elected the following slate of officers: Chair, Kenji Hakuta; vice-chair, Alba Ortiz; Executive Committee, Barbara Foorman, Paul Goren, and Lea Schelke, along with the Board chair and vice chair. All terms would expire in March 2003.
Following the report of the executive director, members requested
The Board reached a consensus on the following meeting dates for the remainder of FY 2002: February 1, March 29, June 28, and September 6.
The Board concurred in the establishment of three new standing committees Policy, Priorities, and Peer Review and Standards, all in addition to the Executive Committee. Their charges would be as follows:
Policy (Continuity): To work with Board recommendations regarding reauthorization. Membership: Bill Evers, Chair, Jomills Braddock, Gene Bottoms, Glenda Lappan, and Kenji Hakuta.
Priorities (Focus): To work with the Assistant Secretary and OERI key staff on the Assistant Secretary's research emphases, i.e., reading comprehension, learning and cognition, and early childhood, as well as the Board's research priorities, reading, second-language learning, and mathematics. Membership: Barbara Foorman, Chair, Adela Acosta, Paul Goren, Bob Marley, and Annemarie Palincsar.
Peer Review and Standards (Quality): To work with the Assistant Secretary and OERI staff on the Assistant Secretary's What Works Clearinghouse initiative and on the NRC report. Membership: Alba Ortiz, Chair; Pann Baltz, Douglas Carnine, Claire Pelton, Lea Schelke, Bruce Fuchs, and Bonnie Kalberer.
All three committees would consider utility and dissemination as part of their work. The Board expressed its unanimous consent to sending a letter of appreciation to the five members of the Board who completed their terms in 2001: John Bruer, Edmund Gordon, Ann Clark, Joyce Muhlestein, and Sharon Lynn Kagan.
The meeting adjourned at 4:08 p.m.
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