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Appendix E: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 239-246

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From page 239...
... In addition to his academic work, he served in White House policy and budget positions in the Carter and Clinton administrations. He also held senior positions in five presidential campaigns, including as senior policy adviser for Barack Obama and on Obama's Transition Board.
From page 240...
... She was an American Statistical Association/ National Science Foundation/Census research fellow in 1985-1986, and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. For CNSTAT, she directed evaluations of the 2000 census, the Survey of Income and Program Participation, microsimulation models for social welfare programs, and the National Science Foundation science and engineering personnel data system, in addition to studies on institutional review boards and social science research, estimates of poverty for small geographic areas, data and methods for retirement income modeling, and a new approach for measuring poverty.
From page 241...
... Nancy Gonzales is associate dean of faculty at Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her primary research interests focus on cultural and contextual influences on adolescent mental health, and her areas of research include culture and ethnic issues in prevention research; prevention of Mexican-American school dropout and mental health problems; acculturation and enculturation of Mexican-American children and families; and contextual influences on adolescent development.
From page 242...
... Her work has included studies on the National Assessment of Educational Progress; teacher licensure and advanced-level certification; inclusion of special-needs students and English-language learners in assessment programs; setting standards for the National Assessment of Adult Literacy; assessing 21st-century skills; and using value-added methods for evaluating schools and teachers. Previously, she worked at the Association of American Medical Colleges and as a special education teacher and diagnostician.
From page 243...
... Previously, his positions included president and CEO of the Southern Education Foundation, dean of the College of Education and professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Temple University, senior vice president at Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, and education program officer at the Pew Memorial Trust and at the Eli Lilly Endowment. He also served in the Clinton administration as assistant secretary of education, focusing on research and development.
From page 244...
... With colleagues, she recently developed school and classroom environment surveys for the Los Angeles Unified School District. She cofounded EdBoost, a charitable, educational nonprofit whose mission is to reduce educational inequality by making high-quality supplemental educational services accessible to children from all family backgrounds.
From page 245...
... She is particularly interested in understanding the complex interactions between schooling processes and the achievement outcomes of black students. Some of her current and recent work includes a multi-method, multi-site study examining issues centered on the law, rights consciousness, and legal mobilization in American secondary schools; an examination of how and why black students have come to equate school success with whiteness; and a study tracing the history of racialized tracking in a suburban school district and its consequences for the district's black students.


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