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Appendix A: Agenda

June 17,1998
8:00-8:30 a.m.	Registration
9:00-9:30 a.m.	Greetings and Opening Remarks Kenji Hakuta Chair, NERPPB Kent McGuire Assistant Secretary, OERI Conference Purposes, Assignments, and Activities Michael Timpane, RAND Conference Moderator
9:30-11:15 a.m.	Panel 1: Domain-based Research Planning Diane August, Committee on Developing a Research Agenda on the Education of Limited-English-Proficient and Bilingual Students, NRC William Sibley, National Science Foundation Catherine Snow, Committee on Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, NRC Reid Lyon, National Institute for Child Health and Human Development Thomas Romberg, National Research Center for Improving Student Learning and Achievement in Mathematics and Science Respondents: Jomills Braddock, NERPPB E. Lea Schelke, National Education Association Organizing questions: How can and should education research planning be successfully accomplished? What has been or can be its impact, in theory building, in method- ological advances, and in applications to practice and policy?
11:15-11:30 a.m.	Break
11:30-1:00 p.m.	Panel 2: Comprehensive Approaches to ResearchPlanning Elizabeth Carvellas, Council of Scientific Society Presidents Daniel Goroff, Harvard University (PCAST) Gerald Sroufe, American Educational Research Association Alexandra Wigdor, National Research Council Michael Kirst, Board of International Comparative Studies in Education, NRC Respondents: Alba Ortiz, NERPPB Paul Schwarz, Principal-in-Residence, ED Organizing Questions: How can and should education research planning be successfully accomplished? What has been or can be its impact, in theory building, in method- ological advances, and in applications to practice and policy?
1:00-2:30 p.m.	Lunch Keynote Address: The Future of Education Research: Priorities, Possibilities, and Risks Marshall Smith, Acting Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
2:45-4:30 p.m.	Small Group Sessions Moderators: Patricia Albjerg Graham, Spencer Foundation Frederic Mosher, Carnegie Corporation Emerson Elliott, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education John Bruer, NERPPB Organizing Questions: What specific lessons should be taken from the morning sessions for the future conduct of research planning? How should issues of quality and priority be addressed? Are there opportunities for better collaboration, coordination, and communication of research and planning? What policy changes are needed? (Recorders from OERI for each group)
4:30-5:00 p.m.	Reporting Out to Full Group Moderators and Recorders
June 18, 1998
9:00-10:30 a.m.	Panel on Necessary Policy Initiatives and Implementation Issues Kent McGuire, Moderator Denis Doyle, Doyle Associates David Shaw, President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology Bella Rosenberg, American Federation of Teachers Frank Newman, Education Commission of the States William Morrill, Mathtech Respondent: Patricia Ann Baltz, NERPPB Organizing Questions: Where should education research planning go from here? How can education research activities be more effectively funded, organized, and managed? How can discourse about the need for more and better research become a more extensive and significant part of education policy development?
10:30-10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45-12:00 p.m.	Summary, Next Steps Discussion Kent McGuire, OERI Kenji Hakuta, NERPPB Ann Clark, NERPPB Michael Timpane, RAND
12:00 noon	Adjourn

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