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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 137-140

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... is executive director, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Research Council, and Vilas Research Professor, Emeritus, at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he has directed the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Institute for Research on Poverty. He has worked on the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study since 1969 and directed it since 1980.
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... He currently serves as Florida's representative on the National Cooperative Education Statistics System and on the Education Information Management Advisory Committee of the Council of Chief State School Officers. At the National Research Council, he served on the Committee on Improving Measures of Access to Equal Educational Opportunity.
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... , Santa Barbara, and former director of the Linguistic Minority Research Institute, a UC multicampus research unit established in 1984 to foster interdisciplinary research and to improve academic achievement of children from diverse language backgrounds. A faculty member at Santa Barbara since 1987, he has published widely in the areas of education and work, the schooling of disadvantaged students, school effectiveness, and education policy.
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... She currently serves as a member of the Council of Chief State School Officers ESEA (Elementary and Secondary Education Act) Reauthorization Task Force, a commissioner on the Education Commission of the States, and a member of the National High School Center Advisory Board.
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