June 18 Minutes of Quarterly Meeting
June 17, 1999
Location
Room 100
80 F Street, NW
Washington, DC 20208-7564
Members Present
Kenji Hakuta, Chair
Jomills Braddock
James E. Bottoms
Edmund Gordon
Paul Goren
Robert Marley
Joyce Muhlestein
Alba Ortiz
Claire Pelton
Lea Schelke
Members Absent
Patricia Ann Baltz
John Bruer
Ann Clark
Sharon L. Kagan
Glenda Lappan
Ex Officio Members Present
C. Kent McGuire, OERI; Norman Fortenberry, NSF (delegate); Bonnie Kalberer, NIH (delegate)
Designated Federal Official
Thelma Leenhouts
Board Staff Present
Eve M. Bither; Mary Grace Lucier
OERI Staff Present
Lance Ferderer, Holly Martinez, Peirce Hammond, Sue Klein, Jim Griffin, Elizabeth Demarest, Ron Anson, Gil Garcia, Joe Teresa, Dan Berch, Wilma Green, Judith Segal, Ram Singh, Beth Fine, Harold Himmelfarb, Carol Chelemer, Stephanie Dalton, Jim Fox, Pat Ross, Tom Hill, Barbara Lieb, Duc-Le To, Robert Stonehill, Fritz Moser, Ivor Pritchard, Paul Pitre, Shederick McClendon
Department of Education / Other Federal Staff Present
Audrey Pendleton, PES; Sherry Kaiman, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; James Martin, BIA-OIEP
Members of the Public Present
Tom Glennan, RAND; Maris Vinovskis, University of Michigan; Charles Haughey, AERA; Russell Jackson and Carol Boussy, Decision Information Resources; David A. Hess, Consortium of Social Science Associations; John Waters and Rich Hershman, NEKIA; Margaret Crandall, CAL/CREDE; Sandi Wurtz, AERA; Penny Earley, ETS; Gerald Sroufe, AERA; Emerson Elliott
Chairman Hakuta called the meeting to order at 9:15 a.m. The Designated Federal Official confirmed the presence of a quorum. The chair introduced interns from the Office of the Assistant Secretary, Shederick A. McClendon from Vanderbilt University, and Paul Pitre from the University of Maryland; and the Board?s intern, Aiko Koraru from Yokohama, Japan, an exchange student from Hope College in Holland, MI.
Report of the Assistant Secretary
Assistant Secretary C. Kent McGuire made the argument for a more programmatic view for the agency, with a focus on a set of enduring questions or problems, and planning and management structures to support it. He gave an update on the status of the Comprehensive School Reform Design Initiative, the Interagency Education Research Initiative, reorganization and staffing in OERI, and discussed the FY 2000 budget request and its implications for the FY 2001 budget process, with reference throughout to Board recommendations.
Report of the Nominating Committee
Ms. Muhlestein presented the following roster of nominees for Board offices: Chair, Kenji Hakuta; Vice Chair, Alba Ortiz; and for the Executive Committee, the Chair and Vice Chair, Jomills Braddock, Edmund Gordon, and Claire Pelton. All the nominees are currently serving in those positions, and have agreed to serve for an additional term. There being no additional nominations from the floor, Ms. Muhlstein moved to adopt the nominations by acclamation, and the Board concurred.
Report of the Chair
The Chair provided information on the following items: the death of Ann Brown of the National Academy of Education, co-author of Recommendations Regarding Research Priorities, the study commissioned by the Board; the Memorandum of Understanding for an Interagency Agreement between the U.S. Department of Education (viz., OERI, NERPPB, and the Office of Educational Technology) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development; a conference on Facing the Courts of Law and Public Opinion, which was held at the Stanford University School of Law, and gave a summary of his presentation of the Board?s policy statement, Investing in Learning, at the meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Montreal in April.
Report of the Executive Director
Ms. Bither reported on the budget for the second quarter and made recommendations for a plan of work (approved by the Executive Committee) for the remainder of FY 1999. She gave an update on plans for a conference on Improving the Education of English Language Learners on July 15 and 16, to be sponsored by the Board in conjunction with OERI and the Office of Bilingual Education and Minority Languages Affairs (OBEMLA). In addition, the Board is planning a contract to prepare a series of six two-column feature articles on exemplary and promising practices in math, as designated by an expert panel, for placement in daily and weekly newspapers across the country. She briefed the members on recent forums on the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, May 12 in the Senate Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and May 17 and 18 at The Brookings Institution. Finally, she proposed a conference sponsored by the Board on issues in early adolescence, to be held in the spring of 2000.
Action Items
The Board approved by acclamation the slate of nominees for chair, vice-chair, and Executive Committee as proposed by the Nominating Committee.
Discussion Items
Jim Fox gave a report on interim reviews of the National Education Research and Development Centers.
The meeting was adjourned at 4:55 p.m.
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