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U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley has appointed E. Lea Schelke and Paul Goren to the National Educational Research Policy and Priorities Board, which reviews and sets education standards and provides information to Congress on them. Ms. Schelke has been a language arts teacher at Trenton (Mich.) High School since 1981. She is also the chairwoman of the National Education Association's professional-standards and - practice committee. Mr. Goren was a senior administrator in the Minneapolis public schools before becoming the director of the child- and youth-development program at the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a private philanthropy that helps support improvements in education, child...