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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches
Pages 326-334
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is professor of public policy studies and economics at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, where she also directs the graduate program in public policy. Her current research focuses on education policy, particularly performance-based approaches to reforming schools and public school choice.
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is study director of the Committee on Immunization Finance Policies and Practices at the Institute of Medicine. Formerly, she was a senior program officer at the National Research Council with the Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.
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. She serves on the Policy Council of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management and the congressionally mandated Independent Review Panel for Title I
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is a senior program officer at the National Research Council. She has managed several projects related to education and training, international comparative studies in education, and civilian aviation careers.
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is a director of Boys Hope Girls Hope, a national residential and college preparatory program for at-risk, yet academically capable, youth, headquartered in Bridgeton, Missouri. Prior to joining the National Research Council, he was an attorney at Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C., where he represented school districts in efforts to obtain greater education funding equity and program adequacy through policy reform and litigation.
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He worked with the Education Commission of the States for a decade, serving as assistant executive director, director of policy analysis and research, and director of its educational finance center. He has also served as a research director for several state education finance projects and served as a consultant to federal, state, and local education officials and policy makers.
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His published scholarship in the field of educational policy and the law covers topics such as school finance reform, school choice, and the legal rights of public schoolchildren. Among his many publications, he is coauthor (with John Coons and William Clune)
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Of special interest are educational policy issues pertaining to the politics of race and culture, including school desegregation, school choice, and "de-tracking" in racially mixed schools. She has recently completed a study of charter school reform in 10 school districts in California.
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can range from mild to severe, but at least half of these students function at the mild level (National Research Council, 1997~. Given the large numbers of children with disabilities in these four categories (over 90 percent: see National Research Council, 1997:87)
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