The reauthorization of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement: hearing before the Subcommittee on Education Reform of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, hearing held in Washington, DC, February 28, 2002, Volume 4 |
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Page 33 - It is the National Research Council, which is the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences, an independent agency chartered by Congress in 1863 to provide scientific advice to government.
Page 71 - ... need an invigorated agency that is capable of carrying out a coordinated, focused agenda of high quality research, statistics, and evaluation that is relevant to the educational challenges of the nation, and that has sufficient flexibility to adjust to new opportunities and problems when they arise. This is a unique and unparalleled opportunity to begin a process that will make American education an evidence-based field.
Page 108 - The NRC is the operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences, chartered by Congress in 1863 to advise the government on matters of science and technology. 1 am accompanied today by Michael Feuer, director of the Center for Education at the NRC. The NRC recently released a report titled "Scientific Research in Education...
Page 112 - Mr. Chairman, thank you for the invitation to appear before the Subcommittee and discuss these very important issues, and for your leadership in promoting high quality education research.
Page 64 - ... make sure that the federal office with the principal responsibility for generating that research has the tools it needs to get the job done. That is what we are here today to address. In facing that task, I want this Committee to understand that we are dealing not only with gaps in student achievement, but also gaps in scientific knowledge. Consider some of the major program areas in the ESEA in which Congress instructed that funding decisions and practice should adhere to scientifically based...
Page 63 - In some urban school districts that serve predominantly disadvantage*! children, 70 percent of 4* graders cannot read at the basic level. Nothing has changed in the last decade in these statistics, and the overall gap between the highest and lowest performing students has actually increased in some subjects. If...
Page 64 - Nothing has changed in the last decade in these statistics, and (he overall gap between the highest and lowest performing students has actually increased in some subjects. If scientifically based research is going to be the key to reform of our most important federal education programs, then we had better make sure that the federal office with the principal responsibility for generating that research has the tools it needs to get the job done. That is what we are here today to address. In facing...
Page 85 - I believe this focus on scientifically-based research may in fact be among the provisions in the new law which has the most lasting and positive impact toward education reform in this Nation. And there is no place where this principle needs to be applied with greater diligence than in the work of the Federal Government's own education research endeavors. In effect, what Congress has said is that Federal funds may no longer be used to support programs that have no compelling evidence of effectiveness.
Page 24 - Keller. 1 would also like to introduce the two other panelists. Lisa Towne is Senior Program Officer and Study Director for the National Research Council's Center for Education. Prior to arriving at the National Research Council, she worked as both an analyst and later as Assistant Director for Social and Behavioral Sciences at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Ms. Towne is an adjunct professor of quantitative research methods at the Georgetown University Policy Institute....
Page 4 - Administration about the role of research and educational reform was evidenced vividly in the recent reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The phrase "scientifically based research" appears 110 times in that Act.