Education Sciences Board Convenes for First Time
The Department of Education convened a new national research advisory board last week that has high hopes of injecting more “science” into the study of schooling.
The 15-member National Board of Education Sciences—made up of prominent researchers, business executives, and school administrators—was established in 2002 when Congress overhauled the department’s educational research functions. The Education Sciences Reform Act abolished the department’s office of educational research and improvement, or OERI, and replaced it with a new Institute of Education Sciences that lawmakers hoped would buffer federally financed educational research from prevailing politics and education fads.
The board’s job is to independently advise the institute’s director, Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst, on the direction and priorities his agency should set. But at the group’s Feb. 8-9 inaugural meeting here, several members made clear that the Bush administration’s ongoing mission of transforming education into an “evidence-based science”...
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